peterstock wrote:That does seem odd. The game uses FMOD 3.75 (a pretty robust and mature sound API), and it's used in about the most basic way possible.
The audio co-exists nicely with other audio applications on my machine and I had assumed that it would do so on everyone else's too
Does it disable the sound on your computer even if you disable the sound in the in-game options?
Yup. I tried to enable/disable the in-game sound with no luck. When I start the game, it completely disables all sound on my computer including the in-game sounds. It's strange as I'm using a common SB Audigy 2ZS sound card and only have this issue with AR. I'll take another look to make sure it's not forcing the card to digital input, see if it works with Winamp or something off the wall like that. Thanks...
***UPDATE***
I dug around in the Sound Blaster control panel and discovered that THX must be enabled for analog and not digital output for this game. Why? Beats me. But it works now. It's very "80's arcade" sounding. Laffs...