Hi, I created a soundbuffer wrapper for DirectSound that is able to load a wave file and keep it in a number of soundbuffers (for simultaneous playback of the same sample). On loading a wave file it takes the DirectSound interface object as a parameter. Now here is the problem: it works fine with loading ONE sample this way (in any number of copies), however when I create another wavewrapper object it fails while trying to load the sample. If you can find any explanation of this please tell me what I'm doing wrong. http://www.moviecodec.com/cpp/wavewrapper.cpp http://www.moviecodec.com/cpp/wavewrapper.h (The function to load a wave file into sound buffer comes from André LaMothes "trick of the windows game programming gurus"). When creaing object this works: explosionWave1 = new WaveWrapper(); if (!explosionWave1->LoadWAVE("wav\\EXP0.WAV",NUM_XPLO_FX_CHAN,myDSInterface)) FatalError("Error LoadWAVE"); and this works: fireWave1 = new WaveWrapper(); if (!fireWave1->LoadWAVE("wav\\11kcannon.wav",NUM_FIRE_FX_CHAN,myDSInterface)) FatalError("Error LoadWAVE"); BUT this does NOT work: explosionWave1 = new WaveWrapper(); if (!explosionWave1->LoadWAVE("wav\\EXP0.WAV",NUM_XPLO_FX_CHAN,myDSInterface)) FatalError("Error LoadWAVE"); fireWave1 = new WaveWrapper(); if (!fireWave1->LoadWAVE("wav\\11kcannon.wav",NUM_FIRE_FX_CHAN,myDSInterface)) FatalError("Error LoadWAVE"); Weird [edited by - beowulf on October 2, 2002 6:27:18 AM]

And the solution was even more weird! Now I have a memory leak, I commented out "free(snd_buffer);" in the load wave function and now it works; but now it has a memory leak