Article ID: 832802 - Last Review: September 29, 2011 - Revision: 3.0

Shooting frozen Rheinland ships in Freelancer causes mission 3 to fail

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SYMPTOMS

When you are playing Microsoft Freelancer, you may experience any one of the following symptoms in mission 3:
  • The Rheinland ships stop moving.
  • If you shoot at the Rheinland ships, you receive a message that states that the mission failed.
  • You cannot hear voices in the game.
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CAUSE

This issue may occur if Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 codec is not installed.
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RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, install the Fraunhofer codec. To do this, use Method 2 in the following KB article.

For additional information about how to install this codec, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
814549  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814549/ ) Freelancer 1.0: Known sound issues
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WORKAROUND

If you install the codec and if does not resolve the issue, ram the three ships that you encounter in this mission to destroy them without shooting.
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MORE INFORMATION

The third-party products that this article discusses are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.
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APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Freelancer
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Keywords: 
kbconfig kbsound kbprb KB832802
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