. . . . sound card problems

Sometimes Realm has conflicts with some sound cards or voice recognition programs which can cause the program to lock up or not run at all.

To get around this, the Realm Team have developed a "soundless" version of the main game program, "sciw.exe".

If you are having sound problems (or just think that the music and sounds are annoying), you can install this file and see if the problem goes away.

For the latest details on this file, I will pass you on to an excellent site by BlueRose.

It is:

http://www.akula.com/~mbrose/sciw/sciw.html

Thanks to BlueRose for help on this. :)