A crash fix for the desperate (x3daudio.dll errors) Arma 2 windows 64bit
The x3daudio.dll error that appears when you start the game from its directory.
Ok so i installed ARMA 2 on my Vista 64 bit home premium and it crashed on startup.
I fully reinstalled (I used steam in administrative mode) and still had a problem (just a microsoft error message).
Out of curiosity i started ARMA 2 out of its' steam directory and got an error stating x3daudio.dll was missing.
Then I did a reinstall and reboot for DirectX.
The problem was still there so i think "what if i find the file in the .cab file from the directx folder and copy it to the directory" (I only thought about this because I have used d3d9.dll based shaders in other games).
I found the file X3dAudio1_6.dll in the Mar2009_X3DAudio_x86.cab with 7Zip and copied the file to the base Arma 2 directory.
Now the game loads up and I can get in game just fine. (I think 64bit windows tries to only load the 64 bit Directx only and i don't know why)
(this worked for me on operation arrowhead too)
Note: I used the x86 cab file and not the x64
I fully reinstalled (I used steam in administrative mode) and still had a problem (just a microsoft error message).
Out of curiosity i started ARMA 2 out of its' steam directory and got an error stating x3daudio.dll was missing.
Then I did a reinstall and reboot for DirectX.
The problem was still there so i think "what if i find the file in the .cab file from the directx folder and copy it to the directory" (I only thought about this because I have used d3d9.dll based shaders in other games).
I found the file X3dAudio1_6.dll in the Mar2009_X3DAudio_x86.cab with 7Zip and copied the file to the base Arma 2 directory.
Now the game loads up and I can get in game just fine. (I think 64bit windows tries to only load the 64 bit Directx only and i don't know why)
(this worked for me on operation arrowhead too)
Note: I used the x86 cab file and not the x64
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