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Posted: **Mon May 10, 2004 4:13 pm**

Hi,

I have just bought Euro 2004 by EA Sports and the game installs and plays fine, except for the fact that there is no sound at all. I tried to open an audio file from the game through Program Files but although they appear to be Windows Media Files the system says "unable to open file".

I have the latest Sound Card Drivers and according to the system check everything is ok, and the sound works fine on all other applications. My system is as follows:

Windows XP
AMD Athlon 2600
Nvidia GeForce 5600
512 Mb RAM
PCI 128 (WMD) Sound Card

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You in advance.

SLP

Posted: **Mon May 10, 2004 4:28 pm**

What are the Audio Files extentions in the game?

Posted: **Mon May 10, 2004 8:17 pm**

Posted: **Wed May 12, 2004 9:19 am**

PC Guy,

You are correct. It seems that although the files are Windows Media files they do only open through the game. I am running DirectX 9.0b and I ran the DXDIAG program and all sounds played and there were no other problems. As for my sound being set for digital, I don't know. It will be set to system defaults as I wouldn't know where to start looking for any changes. Any advice on how I check this?

Thanks for replying. You too Cactus, I think the file extensions are .WMV but I tried playing music files from another EA Sports game that does work in the game through Windows Media Player and I got the same error message as in Euro 2004.

Any further advice would be greatly appreciated as it looks like a good game slightly ruined by missing sound.

SLP.