I just bought the game off of the novalogic site, everything works fine except one audio bug that i cant figure out....whenever other pilots pop up during missions at the top right of the screen to talk i cant hear anything...plz help

I'm actually having the exact same problem. During missions, when the avatar of pilots show up in the top right-hand corner, the animation occurs but with the audio noticeably absent.

Interestingly, I'm also using the digital download version.

If anyone know a solution to this issue I (and I'm sure infamous jeff) will greatly appreciate it.

Ditto on the lack of dialog for this game with the digital download. ANY help would be GREATLY appreciated! I used to LOVE this game, but without the dialog, this game would be nearly impossible to play.
Please Help!

I also am having this problem. One of the best parts of the game imo is the dialog, so needless to say I am disappointed. I messaged Novalogic and am waiting for a reply. If I get an answer I will post it here.

Im having the exact same problem. Also using the digital version. The demo works fine though. Got a message from Novalogic saying that the hd drivers for my realtec soundcard is incompatible with the game. trying to update them now but so far no luck

Same problem here... anyone have a fix?

From Novalogic Support:

First we request that you install that latest software drivers update for the sound card.
Then you will also want to update the game.
Then if the card is not recognized try this;
Go to the Tachyon folder on the hard drive, and double click on the Tachyon.cfg file (use the NotePad to read it).
Find the line, A3D_DEVICE= and change it to one of these settings.
=0 fast 2d (software)
=1 intel rxs (software)
=2 dolby (software)
=3 aureal 3d (hardware)
=4 eax (hardware)
=5 direct sound (hardware)
=6 aureal 2.0 (hardware)
=7 eax 2.0 (hardware)
=8 direct sound (software)
Then SAVE the file.
Now try the game.

Mike Harling
Director of Customer Support
Novalogic Inc.


I haven't tried this yet, as I am away from home right now. If any of you try it, and get it to work, let me know.

Cheers

For some odd reason, that Tachyon.cfg file isn't in my Tachyon folder on my game, also digital format.

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For some odd reason, that Tachyon.cfg file isn't in my Tachyon folder on my game, also digital format.

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Okay, hi I just activated this account to reply to this message, and the others in this thread. I was having sound issues as well. Those issues were, simply put, audio in the briefings(the job board) would play, and I could hear the lasers(buy it was distorted), but no audio from the npc's in the game such as other pilots and freighters. To fix this problem, and more importantly for those who bought a game download like me from novalogic, you need to download the 50+megabyte demo of the game and install it somewhere. when you do this, run through the setup and log into the game, then after futzing with the demo game for a few minutes, log out, open the directory where the demo installed(c:\Tachyon the Fringe Demo, or wherever it installed), and look for Tachyon.CFG. You have to run the demo once first, so that it can get the configuration settings. Anyway, you copy Tachyon.CFG, and paste it into the full game directory(the one that you are having sound issues with), and then try the game. If it doesn't work, follow the steps in the above post for editing the CFG file. I did this, and it worked fine. I would post where I got the demo from, but I didn't pay attention to the URL, sorry guys. I hope this helps.

Regards,

--Tremerid

That seems to have cleared up my problem. Novalogic really should add that missing file to their digital download. Thats really poor Quality Control on their part.

Cheers

Can anybody link to *where* they downloaded their copy of the demo from? I've been looking for hours now and the one place I've found that has the 50-60mb demo keeps crapping out and corrupting the download.

Sorry for the doublepost, but I got a friend with a better connection to help me out. Pasting Tachyon.cfg into the game directory works perfectly, I didn't even have to edit it.

I'm off to replay my whole game to date, because I don't wanna miss all the kick-arse audio.

Hey, that helped a lot

Thank you for telling me how to get that file.

Thanks

I found the download but after I tried to run it I got an error about windows not being able to execute a dos program. Is there anyway I can just get the file without getting the demo?

Thanks for the feedback Guitarlord and Tremerid (especially Tremerid).

It turns out the digital download version doesn't even have the Tachyon.CFG file (not to be confused with your save game config files)!

Very poor quality control on NovaLogics part. Not only that but their tech support put me on hold for 50 minutes and never replied to my email. Very poor customer service as well. I doubt I'll ever buy directly from them again.

But regardless, Tremerid's solution works perfectly (although the game seems to be crashing with a higher degree of regularity now, but at least it's playable). The only (other!) ridiculous thing was tracking down the demo, as most of the files seems to be dead links or links to "try media" version - i.e. the inept digital version we all seem to have.

But at the bottom of the sixth page of googling "download tachyon the fringe demo" I found this Spanish website:

http://superdownloads.uol.com.br/download/110/tachyon-the-fringe/reviews-usuarios.html

For those who are having trouble finding the demo (for the much coveted config file) navigate to that link and click on the orange button on the right.

Also, it's not just the right hand pilot icon sounds that were missing but a whole bunch of wingman chatter and mission diagnosis, etc. So once you guys fix your sound problem, I recommend starting a new game so you don't miss out on most of the experience!

Hope that helps, and thanks again Tremerid.