Microsoft KB Archive/832802

= Shooting frozen Rheinland ships in Freelancer causes mission 3 to fail =

Article ID: 832802

Article Last Modified on 11/14/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Freelancer

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SYMPTOMS
When you are playing Microsoft Freelancer, you may experience any one of the following symptoms in mission 3:
 * The Rheinland ships stop moving.
 * If you shoot at the Rheinland ships, you receive a message that states that the mission failed.
 * You cannot hear voices in the game.



CAUSE
This issue may occur if Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 codec is not installed.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this issue, install the Fraunhofer codec. To do this, use Method 2 in the following KB article.

For additional information about how to install this codec, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

814549 Freelancer 1.0: Known sound issues



WORKAROUND
If you install the codec and if does not resolve the issue, ram the three ships that you encounter in this mission to destroy them without shooting.



MORE INFORMATION
The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.

Additional query words: audio sound performance



Keywords: kbconfig kbsound kbprb KB832802

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