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Error initializing DirectSound. Application will now ex...

Richard McDonald Woods
in PMDG General Forum

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I am getting this message when starting MSFS 2004. The Century of Flight window is displayed and the PMDG AIRAC data loading is under way, when the error message is displayed. Replying 'OK' causes MSFS 2004 to end without any further explanation.Help, please?

Cheers, Richard

Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.2 GHz, 16 GB memory, 1 TB SSD, GTX 1080 Ti, 28" 4K display

Win10-64, P3Dv5, PMDG 748 & 777, Milviz KA350i, ASP3D, vPilot, Navigraph, PFPX, ChasePlane, Orbx 

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Turned out to be my NVIDIA sound driver had somehow become unusable. Solved by re-installing the driver.

Cheers, Richard

Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.2 GHz, 16 GB memory, 1 TB SSD, GTX 1080 Ti, 28" 4K display

Win10-64, P3Dv5, PMDG 748 & 777, Milviz KA350i, ASP3D, vPilot, Navigraph, PFPX, ChasePlane, Orbx 

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