Been quite busy with work recently, hopefully I remember this server in a weeks time

yes.

I didn’t know that I wasn’t meant to run windows game off ntfs, didn’t have any issues but the drive did die recently (bad sector) I’m assuming this might have been the reason?

yea should be a mp3 decoding thing https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/hb7kh9/no_music_in_halflife_2_on_fedora_32/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1 probably search for sellinux or somthing

not sure about the problem, but I do know with my own fedora there is an issue with some audio encoding, once you fix your main issue and find the audio problem (affects voicelines and music) let me know and Ill try to find the solution again for you