The control panels says earpds.dll failed to initialize. Some of these use sound. Some of these manipulate sound. These need to be shut down so we can change the primary buffer to use with our software. The best thing to do is shut down all programs using audio.
Some drives can be fixed with driver updates, others are hopeless.
Our software does not run on Windows NT or Windows 2000. Yes, this is a common question, believe it or not. Our audio engine is only active when our control panel is running, or when you are playing one of the games that uses our audio engine. If your audio stopped working it is not our fault. If you uninstall our audio engine, the games that use the audio engine will stop working.