I have seen something like that before from someone here on the HLP forums though. No matter what they did, installing/uninstalling, making sure the old 1.0 dlls were gone, etc., would get it working for them. The only suggestion I had left was to recommend that they copy the openal32.dll and wrap_oal.dll files from their system32 directory directly into the game directory. And that worked. That is probably the next fix I can offer, but it should always be considered a last resort.
That proceedure isn't recommended in general, since you miss out on better OpenAL drivers which sound card makers can put out (particularly Creative, they have full hardware acceleration for their popular cards). But, it's something particular to some systems, and I don't really know what that is.
. The into cutscene reminded me a lot of Wing Commander 3, except that the graphics were even more beautiful.
True to form, shortly after ranting, I reentered the mission and slowed it down (mentally). I recalled, from WC2, that you should gain early lock and then ram the torpedo in from relatively close range. I gained lock at like 2300, and then AB'd in to around 800 and let her fly at the engine subsystem. It worked and I had lots of AB fuel and no damage!
