Hi.

I've looked at many of the gauges and still have many more to go (there are a lot!), I haven't found any differences yet. The Captain_Sim.p727.sound.gau is the same one used in v2.3, as are all the gauges I have looked at up to now. There are 2 new gauges, the 2D WxR (the free, included one from Captain Sim). There must be some other differences, but I haven't found them yet. The dates and sizes so far are the same in them all.

Mark

OK. Here is how I went.

There are a few gauge changes in 727-100 v2.4, I replaced them with the ones from v2.3, one at a time, then in different combinations. Each change required FSX to be closed and then restarted. It was a case of: Make gauge changes, start FSX, load CS727, Fly, FSX off, make gauge changes, start FSX, load CS727, Fly, FSX off...over and over again ). I never got the sound working that way. I always had to reload the aircraft. No idea why.

So...... I went back to CS727-100 v2.3. Start FSX, load CS727, fly, no sound! What???? No matter what I did, I had the same problem. I had to reload the 727 to hear the sounds.
So.......I went all the way back to v2.2. Start FSX, load CS727, fly, no sound! What on earth is going on here? Same deal as v2.3 and v2.4.

The only thing I never did, was the editing the registry. I really don't want to do that.

Mark

Replacing the new (v2.4) gauges with the old (v2.3) changed nothing. The gauges themselves worked fine, they had no effect on the way the sound behaves.

Version 2.4 (25 Feb 2010) was not very far behind the release of version 2.3 (26 Dec 2009). I do not remember the having the sound not working upon loading in v2.3. Because it was only two months between them, I could be wrong.

Mark

Edited:

I've tried everything in these articles to get the sound to come on and it just won't. Loaded cold and dark from the start menu, then reloaded, changed the line of code in sound file as suggested. Still nothing. I'm running Windows 7. I don't have msvcr71.dll in system 32 folder. Some have suggested its not nessicary to get sound.
None the less, I'm trying to find msvcr71.dll on Mircrosoft's site but can't. Does anyone have a reliable source to obtain msvcr71.dll or know where to find it on the Microsoft site. thanks-

From personal experience as another relative newcomer I will tell you point blank that nothing worked until I did the .dll add from the MS website.  Without that, all the other stuff did nothing.
It wasn't like that for me. After building my new system, reformatting my C Drive, reinstalling Windows 7 Professional 64bit, then installing FSX & Acceleration followed by installing all my Captain Sim products, the sound in my 727 still had this issue.  got my sounds working normally by either reloading the aircraft or starting FSX by loading the 727 Cold-n-Dark (KSEA) or 727 Cleared for takeoff (KSEA) directly from the Documents\Flight Simulator X files and bypassing the FSX Start Menu.

I do have msvcr71.dll installed on my computer. It's in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Msvcr71.dll. The file is dated Sunday, ‎8 ‎August ‎2010, ‏‎1:02:50 AM and Size: 340 KB (348,160 bytes) (Size on disk: 340 KB (348,160 bytes)).
That date is the same day that I reinstalled Window 7 on my new system. I never downloaded and installed the msvcr71.dll on my system.

Mark

I've looked on MS site but can't find it listed specifically. There are many files that are close to that by name. Is it contained in the Windows 7 Service pack 1? Again, I can't find it anywhere by name

Hi Mark,
Yes, I did look in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64 folder and didn't find it. I am running windows 7 64 bit. So you have to have that .dll in system 32 before the sound will work?
Doug, where on Microsoft's site did you find it?