The road to Hell is paved with good intentions:

I updated my Avance97 sound driver (onboard the Asus 4PTE mom board) and now it crashes continually at the splash screen. I didn't have this problem before the sound driver update. If I bypass the splash screen quickly enough, I can get into the game, but no sound.

I have unistalled/reinstalled the games 3 times (with patches) updated the video driver (Asus 7100 Pro), unistalled the sound driver, reinstalled, made sure that I have DirectX 8.1 etc, etc, etc.

:cry: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Any ideas?

System Specs: Pentium P4 1.6 ghz; 512 rambus; Win98 (all available patches/updates)

I know how you feel... I upgraded to kazaa 2.0 today and it's less stable than the old version. :mad:

Have you tried installing an older version of your sound card driver?

A temporary solution:

If it doesn't work, you could try going to the "Infogrames Interactive\Civilization III\Art\Movies" folder and rename the "intro.bik" file to "intro_BK.bik", then create a blank text file and name it "intro.bik". This will skip the intro...

Thunderfall, thank you for the work around on the splash screen. I at least have that problem solved. However, I still have no sound in the game (I did reinstall the old sound driver).

Any suggestions????