Do you have a sounds.dat in your Defcon folder? Are you certain you applied the patch to a previous full installation (i.e. v1.0) of Defcon and didn't just try install the patch and run it? I'd recommend a fresh install of Defcon v1.0 and then patch. yup, yup and did that maybe my sounds.dat was co...

well, I haven't played since like, Dec. and I just downloaded (and installed) the 1.42 patch. (I have the standalone ver., BTW) so I started a game (vs. an AI) and when ever I did something that required an error sound (such as placing a silo out of my territory) the game crashes... my blackbox read...