Cannot start the game, get a error message

So, when I try to start the game, I get an error message that says, "Audiosystem Init failure: Error initializing output device.

Now, my sound works just fine, so I don't understand what's going on here. I've reinstalled the soundcard drivers, deleted the game and redownloaded it. Still getting the issue.

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lordkosc

Join Date 12/2006

Specs?

Is it a PCI sound card, or on-board sound?

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Ok. My motherboard was an Asus A7N8X-X -- onboard sound. I'm deaf. I don't really see a point in investing in a pci based solution.

But, when I ran a dxdiag, I got a prompt that I was missing a dll file -- ksuser.dll So I ran a google, got that particular dll and threw it into the systems folder for winxp.

I can now start the game, access main menu, etc. Wow. I haven't been able to play it for a few weeks. Wonder how that dll got erased in the first place.

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Join Date 12/2006

Spyware sweepers sometimes love to remove DLL's along with other programs when they uninstall.

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