All I do to get the sound for the Captain Sim 727 is reloading the aircraft. It works every time for me.

With regards to the msvcr71.dll file, I've never had to do anything.

My OS is Windows 7 Professional 64bit (and reloading the 727 also works for me in Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit). See my signature at the bottom of this reply for my system specs.

rcpistonhead wrote on Feb 3^rd, 2015 at 11:33pm:

To be clear, this is not re-loading the aircraft twice from the main menu.

This is setting-up a keyboard short-cut for 'Aircraft (reload)' in the 'Controls' menu. Mark and many others use 'Crtl+Shift+R' key combination.

Here's how to set it up if you haven't already done so:

Select from the main menu; 'Options','Settings','Controls'. Select the 'Buttons/Keys' tab. Make sure that 'Event Category' is on 'All Events'.

Scroll down the list to 'Aircraft (reload)' and mouse click once. (it's the 11th one down in the list).

Click the button 'New Assignment'. A dialog box opens; press and hold all 3 keys: 'Ctrl', 'Shift' and 'R' then release the keys, then select 'Okay'.

Use this keyboard short-cut to 'Reload' your aircraft to have the cockpit sounds work.

fsxpaul wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 1:38pm:


Hi Paul,

I tried your method of setting the key mapping for aircraft reload and sad to say it didn't work. I've tried it many different ways and many times with no luck 

fsxpaul wrote on Feb 4^th, 2015 at 1:38pm:

It works for me regardless of whether I use the CTRL+SHIFT+R shortcut, or Menu > Aircraft > Select Aircraft > press ENTER to reload the same 727.

Once I reload the 727, I have all the sounds working like they should.

fsxpaul wrote on Feb 5^th, 2015 at 6:16am:


By trying many different ways I mean I tried loading the 727 from the free flight screen and then re loading it inside the sim by pressing Ctrl shift r while in the virtual cockpit. I also tried loading the default flight from the free flight screen with the trike , then loading the 727 and then reloading the 727. I tried both of these methods with Ctrl shift r and also by going to aircraft, select aircraft. In other words, I've tried every combination of loading and re loading that I can think of and still no sounds in the cockpit. I'm getting really bummed out about this. I was and still am excited to fly the 727 but without sounds in the cockpit it's useless as a payware add on.

Still thank you for all of the help and suggestions. I am still hoping to get this fixed

Hi all.

I bought the 727 the other day in the 9.99 sale, what a great aircraft.

I went through the list of changes and tweaks as listed here in the forum but can't seem to get the cockpit sounds working.

I followed the KB2930 topic about installing msvcr71.dll which was missing from my windows files but that didn't seem to work, neither did reloading the aircraft twice as suggested. The only tweak that did work was the one to use the 707 sound files, I have that aircraft too. However once installed I lost all the sounds for the V-one addon in the 727.

I find it strange that all the sounds are there in the original 727 CaptainSim/sounds file, and you can play them all fine, but they don't work in the sim. I read somewhere here people reporting that the sounds did work in v2.3 and were now at v2.4 and the sounds are gone now. Is it possibly an idea if someone could verify that the sounds would work using a v2.3 sound gauge and perhaps if this is the case make that file available for people who recently bought the aircraft as v2.4.

Just thinking out loud here, as I think the 727 is a great aircraft and lovely to fly.

Happy Flying.

David Phillips.

Hello,

I'm new to CS and the forum. I just purchased the 727-100 and -200 expansion. Installation went fine but like many others I do not have any sounds in the cockpit. I can hear the engines running but that's it. None of the switches, dials, knobs, altitude warning, fire bells, APU etc. have any sound. I have read this post and tried all of the suggestions: loading the 727 twice, loading one of the default CS flights, changing SoundOffWhenSimIsSlew=0, and also checked for msvcr71.dll file.

When I checked for msvcr71.dll it was not there so, I downloaded the latest Visual C++ from Microsoft as suggested and after installing it the msvcr71.dll file is still missing.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here but I would really appreciate any help. I'm beginning to worry I wasted $50  Sad

(I am running Windows 7 64 bit)