As mentioned SoundEffect was only recently introduced in the 3.0 release. These APIs just don't exist in the 1.0 refresh. The same foes for the Media namespace. I highly recommend updating to the latest and greatest release, which happens to have just been released today! You can download Game Studio 3.1 here, which does include the Sound ...

For anyone that is currently experiencing this issue, please add any relevant information to the bug that was filed today. https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=380009&SiteID=226 A link to your DXDiag dump would actually be really useful as it may be a combination of things, not just the sound card ...

This sounds like item 1.2.1 in the XNA Game Studio 3.0 readme. Please let us know if you are still having this issue after trying this workaround.

When filing feature requests in Connect be sure to use the Suggestion Form rather than the Bug Form. Suggestions are seen as feature requests and bugs are seen as, well...bugs. This one was submitted as a bug which is why it was closed as by design. You don't need to resubmit this one though. I'll see about getting an item logged to ...

Mathew just a heads up I don't know what happened here. I saw this request and processed it normally with an external resolution. It's a nice to have but with the WMA compression and the support for SoundEffect in 3.0 it's not likely we would pursue support for these formats. I just wanted to let you know we saw the request and it ...

Sometimes Connect isn't the greatest tool in resolving issues. I closed the feedback 'by design' as the tool we use to interact with Connect doesn't have many options. The implementation provided in the Beta is indeed by design. We did take your feedback though and I added an item into our internal DB so it can be considered in a ...

I've actually re-enaged Whole Tomato around this issue and they've isolated the code that has caused the FPU change. This seems to stem from the Armadillo wrapper from Silicon Realms that is being called. So if any other plug-in or package is using this protection system they may see a similar affect. Whole Tomato is working to get a fix into ...

Just to clarify there are two folders for logs. The single results file is located here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft XNA\XNA Game Studio\v2.0\Setup\TME\Results\ And the complete set of install logs here: C:\Program Files\Microsoft XNA\XNA Game Studio\v2.0\Setup\Logs\ It would be great if anyone seeing this issue could open a bug on connect that ...

The only false success in the log shows that it didn't install onto VS 2005 which makes sense seeing as you said you only have C# Express installed. Please open a connect bug and add the detailed log files as mentioned above. I think we'll need to dig through the details to see what happened. According to the results everything was installed ...

When you say you reinstalled it could you expand on the steps taken? Was this just a reinstall of the Beta or of all of C# Express and its available service packs? We also drop a log file that contains all the tasks setup runs through and their status. The file is located here : C:\Program Files\Microsoft XNA\XNA Game Studio\v2.0\Setup\TME\Results ...