Request: anyone technical fancy trying to hack Ford Racing 2?

Ford Racing 2 (by Razorworks/Empire) won't work on Vista/Win7 as it tries to use an old WMA method of playing audio that's been removed from Vista/Win7, even if you disable the audio in the setup program. When you start the game and put in your name it exits with an error "WMA:347 Failed to create the Wma_source_filter"

If you Google "ford racing 2 wma" you'll find many other people talking about it.

Here's a bit about the removed WMA filter: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums...1f8d61c63/

And a bit more here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums...937693691e

It seems that the wma filter used DirectShow, which is not supported in Vista/Win7.

Ford Racing 3 works fine, as it's a bit newer and plays a different music format.

Is there anyone out there who could hack the game so it doesn't call to the WMA filter, or do something even more clever? Or is it a case of trying to hunt down the programmers and asking if they can still help?

 

The same bug affects the demo, if anyone wants look: http://www.gamefront.com/files/1169445/Ford_Racing_2_Playable_Demo

 

It's been fixed (with widescreen addition!) apparently: http://www.wsgf.org/forum/forums/ga...1/ford-racing-2-windows-vista7-fix-needed-not-

 

The link you posted is missing the dash at the end (it's there in the post, but not part of the link).