No intro music / sound / audio

[Conan the Barb]

It's been a while since I played Civ III and I recently installed it again, this time on my recently bought new computer with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. Installation was a bit tricky but I managed and the game starts with XP-SP2 compatibility mode.

Too bad the intro movie (intro.bik) starts with weird graphics (with the Atari logo) but this becomes normal when the Firaxis Games + logo appears on-screen. But that isn't really my issue, my issue is that I hear absolutely no music during the intro movie. The sound in-game is absolutely normal, so after all this isn't a huge issue but I like it to be solved.

I was able to run the intro.bik with RAD Video Tools from Bink and Smacker with a very nice result: no weird graphics and excellent music. But that's not the way I want to enjoy the intro.

Do I need a specific codec for the intro-music, and if so which one? I allready installed the codec-pack "Win7codecs" from Shark007.net.

Hope someone can help me out.

Just in case some of my computer specs:
- i7-920 2,67GHz
- 6GB RAM
- ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB DDR5 (with latest driver from ati.com / amd.com)
- Realtek HD Audio (onboard with latest driver installed)

Edit: I installed the patch 1.29f.

 

[Conan the Barb]

... Meanwhile I kept searching and looking for a solution. And I found an unorthodox method!! What seems to be obviously, well not strait away for me, is that the bink32.dll is responsible for the playback of .bik movies in-game. So I downloaded a bink32.dll but without a positive result ... and - just like that - I remembered that GTA IV also contains a bink32.dll!! And figure this out: with that file I finally got back the audio of the intro.

Edit: For your information, the version of the bink32.dll I'm using now is 1.8.12.0 and the size is 195kB.