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The sound effects only last a short time.The music works though.When I restart EU2 the sound effects do return,but only for a short time.
I have tryed re-installing the sound drivers with no change.
EU2 is patched to 1.07 NA

P4 2.0A
15K rpm SCSI 36 GB HD
256 RDRAM
Creative Audigy
 
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You can try and turn down sound acceleration.
 
Let me take a wild guess here. You are running a Windows 9x OS platform? If so, then what you have is an incompatibility between the Audigy VxD based drivers, DirectX and a paradox game. (the same problem is also present in Hearts of Iron)

Assuming the above (otherwise, ignore what I say below, as it will most likely not apply to your problem):

The problem doesn't exist when you use the WDM based drivers (which I now have installed for my Audigy II), which Creative added with the introduction of the Audigy II, but which were not suplied with the original Audigy.

Since Creative has more or less abandoned the VxD line of drivers (Windows 9x is a dying line of OS'es), and Paradox doesn't (to date) alter it's sound generation code in the games, you are stuck with the problem.

As Castellon suggested, you may get lucky with turning down your sound accelleration, but that's not a convenient solution, to say the least. Basically, you are then giving up that what makes an Audigy an Audigy, and you have to remember to put it back up again if you want to play any other games.

Secondly, you may consider upgrading to Win2K. For this platform, only WDM drivers can be used, so installing the Audigy drivers under Win2K will automatically give you the working ones.

Ideally, Paradox would correct the flaws in the way they generate sound effects and make it 100% DirectX compliant, but I don't see that happen any time soon (as they probably don't even know what precisely IS incompatible in this particular combination)

Jan Peter
 
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Well as jpd suggests, converting to the other drivers may solve the problem for you as well.
Glad that you at least have a work around anyway.