I have four lines of cout''s, followed by a wav.. however the couts wont show until the 9 second wav has finished playing. How can I make the wav and the couts work at the same time in junction with each other? Help would be appreciated =)

Sounds like the wav file playing is synchronous (blocking). You can try to make it async (if you''re using PlaySound there''s a flag for that), or you can try doing a flush() call on the ostream.

HTH

Douglas Sutherland