digitaljjd Posted October 16, 2011 Posted October 16, 2011 I was dreaming of a DCS level B-17G and decided to reinstall The Mighty Eighth yet again. I found an old post from myself so I could remember how to fix the sound problem on Windows 7 and figured I'd share for those who might like to hop into the turrets again and throw some lead downrange with their mechanical and gun sound effects working. Gun/Mechanical Sound fix works on Windows 7 by digitaljjd » Wed Nov 17, 2010 7:38 am Original fix by wombat778 from » Sat Mar 15, 2003 1:36 am I have Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Installed. Install B-17, do not install the a3d drivers...or the old direct X for that matter. Apply the 2.0 patch. Then explore the B-17 CD and use 7-Zip...(like winrar but 100 times better, it's a quality free program everyone should have) http://www.7-zip.org/...to extract the a3ddrivers310.exe files (rather than run it) into the B17 main directory.(Computer, local disk, Program Files (x86), Microprose, B17) Then, go to the run command line and type regedit. Once in regedit, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microprose\B17\General and right click on UseA3d, select modify, change the 0 to 1 and click ok. Then exit and use the my computer to navigate to local disk, Program Files (x86), Microprose, B17. Then locate and start(double click) the game using the Game.exe file (Just says Game with a B-17 icon) rather than B-17setup.exe, -(there are two and there are three B-17 icons, make sure it's the correct one) Then play the game normally, your gun sounds will be back along with the mechanical turret sounds. It's a good idea while you are in that B-17 folder to right click the B-17 Game.exe icon (or list, I have icons turned on) and send to desktop (create shortcut) Rename your new shortcut to say B-17 Sound Fix or whatever so you don't click the wrong one. (you should have two on your desktop now) If you run B17setup.exe (start game normally) at any point after this the above registry UseA3d entry will go back to 0 and you will have to redo the fix. So if you make a change to the resoulution etc. just redo it and your all set. No problems for me so far. Much Thanks to wombat778!!! I can finally play this game without stutter and now with sound!
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