[X3] A tool to fix your directshow codecs (sound problems and performance)

Longinus00 · Post by **Longinus00** » Wed, 21. Feb 07, 01:02

Are there supposed to be sounds when your ship gets hit by weapons? Also my weapon sounds are very quiet. I'm just curious as to whether or not it's supposed to be like this? I'm still trying the stuff in this thread just in case.

ipknightlyy911 · Post by **ipknightlyy911** » Sun, 25. Feb 07, 02:51

Guys,

I have a solution for the ASF ACM Handler(dxmasf.dll) All you have to do is install/upgrade your WMP10 to 11 and in the DShow Viewer, under "SPEECH" heading it should have only "WMA Voice Decoder DMO" and it's red.

Don't worry about the color, I think, because DShow doesn't really know what to classification that under; since it's new.

I went into the game and NO MORE speech cutting-off the first-half part.

It's great I can actually enjoy the game, immensely, now.

Hope this helps...

p.s. As a sidenote...Thank you MadBoris, with your help about the DShow and DSFMgr I wouldn't have done it. Cheers.

NOVAJHV · Post by **NOVAJHV** » Wed, 28. Feb 07, 07:47

For some time now i have had problems with the sound on x3 i have been every where trying to find what's wrong finaly some one has put me on to you i downloaded your program and i think i have found what's wrong in the live graph it says SPEECH-Entering systems,in station,targeting,info like "Booster not installed" next 2 that there are 2 things that come up the first one it's ok Default DirectSound Device again that's ok but under that in RED is the problem WMA Voice Decoder DMO but even with all that help info on the first page i don't think i could fix the problem i could reall use some help plz message back soon i have not been able to play x3 in some time thanks again NOVAJHV

Virus999 · Post by **Virus999** » Wed, 7. Mar 07, 22:37

Hello Guys ! !

I have serious problems with X3 with the Sound because of Codec Problems i think. I tried your programs to fix the Codec merit, and i now have a clean Graph. All like it should be. But if iam using the DShow Viewer and Attach it to X3 he tells me that X3 is unsing the following files:
COMDLG32.dll // C:\Windows\system32\ // Common Dialogs Dll
HDSPMME.dll // -same folder- // Hammerfall DSP
EAX.dll // -same folder- // EAX Unified

Ok, the next step i did was deactivating EAX --> Eax.dll no more appears.
Then i deactivated the Driver in the Windows Hardware Manager (or what its calles in English , iam german

)
Then the HDSPMME.dll even disappeared.
The only Dll which stays there is the COMDLG32.dll, but the same Problems with the Sound, as other users talked about, aren't gone. I hope i've written in not-so-bad english, thanks for your help !

Virus999 · Post by **Virus999** » Thu, 8. Mar 07, 00:08

Ok, i dont know what exactly happened in my Pc, but the DShow Viewer now reports an error in SPEECH. The Speech Tab doesn't appear now. I changed nothing ....
Now i tried reinstalling DX9 , Windows Media Player, the Codecs, and the Game. Nothing worked. Now i have no more Speech in the Game. Im going crazy now ....

I NEED HELP !

MadBoris · Post by **MadBoris** » Fri, 9. Mar 07, 08:11

Virus999 wrote:Ok, i dont know what exactly happened in my Pc, but the DShow Viewer now reports an error in SPEECH. The Speech Tab doesn't appear now. I changed nothing ....
Now i tried reinstalling DX9 , Windows Media Player, the Codecs, and the Game. Nothing worked. Now i have no more Speech in the Game. Im going crazy now ....

I NEED HELP !

2 things go back and unchange any merits you changed, if your not sure don't make any guesses. At my initial topic, at the bottom of the post I show the default merits as they should be on a untouched windows machine.

Secondly, install or reinstall media player 11 then check the tool and see.
Certain file names look different in media player 11 and may look red but are ok(the tool was developed under MP10). Let me know. Your original problem may or may not be fixed, let me know.

Virus999 · Post by **Virus999** » Fri, 9. Mar 07, 17:05

Hi MadBoris !

Im not home right now, but i will try a completely new way. I will install a second WinXp on a secondary Partition, that should work fine. Thx

Virus999 · Post by **Virus999** » Sat, 10. Mar 07, 14:41

As i said, i installed a second Windows. Now X works fine. I hope the next X doesn't have this bug, thank you for your Support

HellNY · Post by **HellNY** » Sat, 31. Mar 07, 06:12

I have bad stuttering in the game that only started recently. I used the codec display tool and the attach program and found that even though everything looked right, X3 was grabbing over 14 RED codecs that werent showing up in the display.

My question is, do I really need to kill or rename all these? Is that safe? Or which ones are the most likely culprit?

Here they are

COMDLG32.DLL
IMM32.DLL
NSCEXT.DLL
ATL71.DLL
MSVCP71.DLL
MSVCR71.SLL
CCL60U.DLL
MSCTF.DLL
LGSCROLL.DLL
MSVCR80.DLL
MSVCP80.DLL
MSCTFIME.IME
MFPLAT.DLL

I cant believe this game stutters so much

MadBoris · Post by **MadBoris** » Sun, 1. Apr 07, 09:00

HellNY wrote:I have bad stuttering in the game that only started recently.

Have you tried disabling the symantec software? Some of those are symantec hooks. Most of the unexpected files are nothing to worry about.

HellNY · Post by **HellNY** » Sun, 1. Apr 07, 10:30

Yes I did. I turned off all of NOrton and disabled that Symantec file. It didnt matter. Nothing I have done matters. This started weeks after I owned the game and now Im coming to believe that something cvhanged in Windows XP (one of teh auto updates_ that I may never solve.

I do have NVIDIA forceware droivers for my system and NVIDIA CODECS for video playback. I originally bought these becxause when I bought my system it needed a codec to play DVDS and somehow didnt have one by default (??)/. SO I bough the Codecs from NVIDIA. But they dont appear as "used" by your program. anyway

HellNY · Post by **HellNY** » Sun, 1. Apr 07, 10:31

Is there a simple way to reinstall WInbdows XP without spending a day redoing the whole system?

G0thm0g · Post by **G0thm0g** » Mon, 9. Apr 07, 03:23

Hi there, first post, but I signed up to show my gratitude to Madboris. Thanks for this tool, good sir, it made my life a lot easier in tracking this problem down.

I will also post the problem and remedy for others who may encounter it:

When I started the game I found that the speech was taking a while to kick in, and when it eventually did, half of the dialogue was missing. I ran Boris's DS Viewer tool and it highlighted wmpasf.dll as the problematic filter. I then ran DSF manager and removed the ASF ICM Handler which was associated with the problematic wmpasf.dll on the DS Viewer. After this I tried rebuilding the graph on DS Viewer but it said that there was a major problem, so I re-installed Windows Media player, and all is now working fine. Previous re-installations of WMP failed to rectify the problem as did a driver update, all is fine now, however.

Thanks again, Madboris!

L4F · Post by **L4F** » Thu, 3. May 07, 01:33

Yeah! Speech works again! Thanks MadBoris, I know you get a lot of these "OMG you can have my babys! U saved my life..." threads but I really mean it. It took me a while but eventually I did it so cheers!

Fundak · Post by **Fundak** » Mon, 21. May 07, 15:20

I have a problem with speech in the game. I can't hear beginings of the comunicates. But when I dock in the stacion, for example I don't hear the begining, but only end like "peaceful welcome". I started DS Viewer and WMA Voice Decoder DMO, ASF ACM Handler and, I have it in polish, "filtr zasobów pakietu Windows Media", what should be "filter of resources of pack Microsoft Media" in Engilsh or something similar, are highlighted in red. The first one is unknown in DS menager, the third one isn't in DS Mgr, and when I try to change merit for the secound one, nothing hapens, and it is still highlighted. How can I fix it?

Omikias · Post by **Omikias** » Wed, 23. May 07, 04:54

I'll just be frank and state my case quick.

Got the "End-Half Voiceovers" problem.
Plays last > 3 seconds of voices.
All other sound works.

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Post by **CBJ** » Wed, 23. May 07, 12:21

Omikias wrote:Got the "End-Half Voiceovers" problem.
Plays last > 3 seconds of voices.

If you have Ulead codecs installed then remove them, otherwise please post a [url=http://www.egosoft.com/support/faq/faq_answer_en.php?answer=610&version=8][b]DX[/b][b]D[/b]iag[/url] report to support your DShow screenshot.

GIGAR · Post by **GIGAR** » Sat, 26. May 07, 20:49

I don't know if this has been answered before, sorry, but I just don't have time to read 27 pages.

Anyways, my problem is the speech - I can't hear it.
I think it's a problem with the wmspdmod.dll, however, DSFM just says "Unkown Merit", and I can't change it.
Anyone knows what I need to do?

Thanks in advice

Post by **CBJ** » Mon, 28. May 07, 21:40

Try simply (re)installing WMP 10 or 11. It will update your WMA codecs which are the ones used for the voice recordings.

MadBoris · Post by **MadBoris** » Sat, 2. Jun 07, 17:16

...I had to reset my profile to get email notifications again.

As we see many times the first thing to try is a reinstall of MP10 or 11, as CBJ just mentioned. Many times this repairs issues like voice, where troubles come about with wmpasf.dll.

Hopefully I will get email updates now. But what we really need is a new announcement from Egosoft on the next coming game title, then I can be around more regularly.

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[X3] A tool to fix your directshow codecs (sound problems and performance)

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WHich one of these codecs should I remove?

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