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Legendary

31 Aug, 2016 @ 2:59pm

[Windows] How to fix looping sound

I encountered it on level 2 with the narrator constantly repeating the intro, followed by game music restarting. The fix is relatively simple (and worked for me).

Close the game and the launcher
Goto http://www.indirectsound.com/ and download the latest indirectsound .zip (mine was version _012)
Open the zip with winrar or whatever you use.
Navigate to your Ceasar 3 folder (fastest is via the browse local files shortcut)
Navigate to the C3 folder
Extract the 'dsound.dll' file here

Enjoy!

Last edited by Legendary; 31 Aug, 2016 @ 3:00pm

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Originally posted by Nius Atreides:

This worked beautifully, thank you!

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A.Shearer

3 Sep, 2016 @ 12:37am

thank you

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Nius Atreides has Caesar 3

3 Sep, 2016 @ 7:40am

This worked beautifully, thank you!

~Seafoam~

27 Nov, 2016 @ 12:27pm

This was the perfect fix- works beautifully now. Thank you so much!

Last edited by ~Seafoam~; 27 Nov, 2016 @ 12:27pm

Lunak

28 Dec, 2016 @ 10:57am

Still works, thank you

DEADXEYE85 has Caesar 3

3 Jan, 2017 @ 1:15am

still works thank you!

Owen

23 Jan, 2017 @ 5:52am

Works perfectly! (Windows 10)

simon_fear has Caesar 3

20 Jan, 2018 @ 4:17am

Unfortunately does not work for me (on Win 10). After adding dsound.dll I just get an error message pop up (before the launcher opens) telling me I need X3DAutio1_7.dll.
So I fetched a copy of that and put it in C3 folder, but then it just hits unknown error (0xc000007b).
Have tried as Admin and all previous Win version compatabilities.
My system is one of those for which actually sound is OK for a while, but then at some seemingly random point goes into the 3-second loop. A restart of the whole game will cure until the next time, but there *will be* a next time, often after only a minute or so.

emo

14 Feb, 2018 @ 9:33pm

Thanks, for fixing the game of my childhood. Still works.

JukkaX 19 Mar, 2018 @ 3:33pm

Worked fine, thanx! Win 10.

ricardosr_1 has Caesar 3

8 Apr, 2018 @ 2:33pm

Thank you!

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󠀡󠀡

17 Feb, 2019 @ 3:11pm

Yes, this fixes MANY games iv known this fix for years its great , recommended

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Legendary

17 Feb, 2019 @ 11:08pm

Originally posted by ▇▇▇:
Yes, this fixes MANY games iv known this fix for years its great , recommended :bigups:

Glad to hear, out of curiosity which other games does it help with? :)

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󠀡󠀡

18 Feb, 2019 @ 8:57am

thief : gold
thief 2: the metal age
thief : deadly shadows ( thief 3 )
pharaoh + cleopatra or gold or whatever else other name this one has , same bug is present on the GOG version of the game aswell....a wierd bug wich is gamebreaking : one mission game plays normally then the next one the game locks up for no reason , using the that .dll fixes the issue .

Last edited by 󠀡󠀡; 18 Feb, 2019 @ 9:08am

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annzie91

8 Jul, 2019 @ 8:49am

Does anyone know about an alternative page to download this patch? The original linked website is no longer available due to an invalid SSL certificate..

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