Sound Issues Leading to CTD - Suggestions On How To Fix Them?

[Ledonev]

Before all the forum trolls decide to flame me, I'm only asking for the $5-10 back that I spent on the bundle oh so many years ago.

Now, that being said, I've read through these discussions, been to FAF, read syskop's (somewhat unrelated) guide, googled countless dead non-Steam forum threads and exhausted most reasonable avenues to address whatever is causing the crash. Ten minutes into the game (sometimes more, sometimes less) - Screen Freeze, then CTD.

Trying to decipher the crash log is useless as none of the coding means anything to me, dxdiag has registered all the crashes in the past 2 months (twelve of which have been SCFA). Short of uninstalling and forgetting that this game ever existed, not sure what else to do.

And while I'm on my soapbox, it might help if there was actually a troubleshooting section in these discussions rather than just a "General" catch-all. It seems like there are over a dozen known bugs ranging from memory issues to surround sound to graphics driver problems that are spread across multiple years' worth of threads.

Just a thought.

[BlazureWolf]

I may have found the solution.

Head into your steam folder for SupCom:FA and delete both music files (The .xwb and the .xsb)

Should be in: ...\Steam\steamapps\common\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\sounds

My first test I played a skirmish that was over an hour long, I had sound but didn't crash, usually I would within 45min or so. 2nd test I played a multiplayer, though it was less than 30min long, I did not crash and still had sound. Obviosuly this mean you won't have music playing at any time, but it's definitly better than having no sound.

If you check the log files, the game will complain about it and some other sound cues, but so far, nothing attributed to a crash.

[BlazureWolf]

Been playing Supreme Commander FA/FAF since then and no crashes, I can confirm this as a solution now.

[Ledonev]

I tried out your suggestion and lost track of time in a 5-hour game. I ran into my other favorite issue with the game, late-game sluggishness due to memory leaks. :)

Thank you Blazure and everyone else for helping us to find a solution!

[germanicianus]

How many units were in the game then? Did you try to save, quit and reload the game?

[Ledonev]

I filled 5 slots with 1000 unit cap each. In the end, it was just me and an AI (eliminated the rest) I did think about quitting and reloading a few times, but if I had, I would've just gone to bed. I kept pushing myself to make sure that the game wouldn't crash from the sound issue.