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Posted July 12, 2013
I've had POD since the 4th of July and have had it running nicely with the latest version of Pod Hacks and dgVoodoo 1.50 beta 2, however, when I went to launch it earlier today, the game just freezes. I've tried completely reinstalling the game and now it just crashes after the intro plays. Turning off playing the intro via .ini edit did not work. And another interesting tidbit is that the music player that comes with Pod Hacks did not show up, despite all of the options being ticked in Pod Hacks configuration.

My Specs:
Radeon 6950 2GB
16 GB RAM
i-7 2600k @ 3.40 GHz
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.

EDIT: Apparently the game only crashes when the Pod Hacks music player is ticked in the config. I can play the game, just without that awesome music. If anyone has a fix for that, I'd be much obliged.
Post edited July 12, 2013 by Blandsman
Posted July 12, 2013
Do you have a crash/mini dump file (*.[m]dmp)?

Else, please manually add MiniDmpType=1 to the [PodHacks] section in the PodHacks.ini.
This will hopefully create a mini dump file in the application directory after the crash.

Best regards
Nico
Post edited July 12, 2013 by nicode
Posted July 12, 2013
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Blandsman: Apparently the game only crashes when the Pod Hacks music player is ticked in the config. I can play the game, just without that awesome music. If anyone has a fix for that, I'd be much obliged.
Please select the first Wave-out device after the "[PodHacks Music Player]" in the list.

EDIT: Seems like the Player communication needs a bigger timeout. The game is most likely crashing while minimizing to display the "CD audio busy" dialog. The workaround uses the same sound device for sound effects and the music (you're not able to control the volume separately - a limitation of the GOG release).

Please make sure you're using PodHacks 3.9a
http://svn.nicode.net/podhacks/bin/?pathrev=55
(delete the PodHacks.dll and start the PodHacks.exe ones)
PodHacks 4.0a works with dgVoodoo, but has too many problems and will be replaced next week....
Post edited July 12, 2013 by nicode
Posted July 12, 2013
I think I solved the problem earlier this morning, sadly I couldn't grab a mini dump file since it was before you posted. I switched the Wave-out to my speakers and the FFA audio codec on my computer launched, fixing the crash. After switching the Music Player back to the Pod Hacks Music Player, it launches fine now and haven't had a single crash.
I thank you for your help. :]
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