OptimFROG.dll

[NorbertWoller]

Hello,

I just have installed Orbiter 2016. I never have had trouble with older versions. But now I very often get the message: "OptimFROG.dll not found"

Any idea?

Thank you and best regards
Norbert

 

[Urwumpe]

Do you have something like "Lossless Audio" installed in your PC?

This should not be a standard Orbiter 2016 dependency. Orbiter traditionally has no sound.

 

[NorbertWoller]

Do you have something like "Lossless Audio" installed in your PC?

This should not be a standard Orbiter 2016 dependency. Orbiter traditionally has no sound.

Hello Urwumpe,

thank you for your feedback. No, I haven't installed "Lossless Audio" I'm allways using OrbiterSound!

 

[Mojave]

I can't contain myself any longer.

Ribbit.

 

[Donamy]

Me either.

Do you want flies with that ?

 

[Urwumpe]

Hello Urwumpe,

thank you for your feedback. No, I haven't installed "Lossless Audio" I'm allways using OrbiterSound!

OptimFROG seems to be a component of a special lossless audio codec, that is why I am asking. It is no dependency of Orbiter 2016. Does the message appear, when you disable OrbiterSound?

 

[DaveS]

OptimFROG seems to be a component of a special lossless audio codec, that is why I am asking. It is no dependency of Orbiter 2016. Does the message appear, when you disable OrbiterSound?

It shouldn't as OptimFROG.dll is not used at all by OrbiterSound.dll according to DependencyWalker.

---------- Post added at 08:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:27 PM ----------

OptimFROG seems to be a component of a special lossless audio codec, that is why I am asking. It is no dependency of Orbiter 2016. Does the message appear, when you disable OrbiterSound?

Doing a google search, it seems to be a dedicated codec used by one program in particular actually called OptimFROG. I would check if it is running in the background trying to hijack the sound playback requested by OrbiterSound. If it is, disable it.

 

[turtle91]

Just found your query again in Dan's forum, where I don't have an account...so here my guess:

Looks for me like a faulty audio-filter-setup of your Windows(XP?).
Some of this many (sound/video)codec-packs arround have some GUI, where a user can very easily screw-up his working sound setup.

In Dan's forum you mentioned, that this issue happens when you switch to external view (F1).
Maybe, you have set orbiter-sound to play music while in ext. view.
So, orbiter-sound "instructs" your OS, to play a music-file using OS-system-default-sound-settings for file-decoding.
Whatever happened to your system, it seems to be that your OS-default-decoder tries to send the decoded music-stream "through" the missing DLL.
The DLL cannot be found, so the OS (not Orbiter or Orbiter-Sound) complains about the missing/corrupted DLL.

Solution ? No clue :idk: Maybe:
If you have installed one of the many available sound/video-codec-packs...just try to open its GUI (if the pack has a GUI) and hit any "DEFAULT"-button you can find.

Important to know is, that even the possible fact, that an external whatever-mp3-player might play (without errors) your MP3's, this does not mean, you system-wide sound-config is in a good state.
Many MP3-player are using their own(good or bad) plugin-driven decoders.
Orbiter-Sound relies on your system-default-sound-setup.

Another option, just install the missing DLL and hope the best.
But I would prefer o fix your codecs-setup first.

Just a guess...I am not a Windows expert....

 

[NorbertWoller]

Thanx a lot! I will try to give it a chance. Let's see what happend.

Once again, thank you very much!