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Music Won't Play
Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 3:32 pm
by Joe Ust
Hi there.
Everything appears to work for me. I can hear all the sound effects with out any problems but the music won't play. I've tried setting my cfg file with both sound packs (the one for Soundblaster and the Roland one). With both, I get effects but no music.
Can someone give me a hand with this? It's frustrating me ... I just wish everything could be dos again. Life was so much easier.
Re: Music Won't Play
Posted: Sat May 31, 2003 9:55 pm
by nadir
DOS Easy ? Yes, like creating boot disks with enough free lower mem to run Ultima VII. That was easy.
Also, the music packs work only with Exult 1.1.x, because that is the version with the OGG support. With Exult 1.0 your only option is to use your platform's MIDI support. Make sure you can play MIDI correctly first.
We also need your exult.cfg file, OS details and paths
Re: Music Won't Play
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 11:55 am
by Joe Ust
DOS was easy at the time when it was the OS of choice. But it's been 6 years since I've been into DOS so I have forgotten everything. Windows makes you forget how to manually set soundblaster settings.
I have Exult 1.0 right now. It said 1.1.x was unstable so I figured I'd go with the one that works. I guess I will just have to update my cfg file. I will post it here again if I run into trouble. Thanks.
Re: Music Won't Play
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 11:59 am
by Joe Ust
Okay, that didn't take long.
I took out those sound packs from my cfg file and now I get no sound. I'm not sure what I've got wrong. How much of the cfg file do you want me to post?
Thanks for your help. Much appreciated.
Re: Music Won't Play
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 2:11 pm
by Dominus
ok, so we now know that you are using windows and exult 1.0.
Go into your windows sound mixer and make sure that you have midi music turned on and on an audible level.
Now read
http://exult.info/docs.php#Audio (ignore digital music and fmsynth as it is only availlable on 1.1.x)
then read
http://exult.info/docs.php#Game Menu
and
http://exult.info/docs.php#audio_gump
Btw, you didn't have to take out the sfx in the cfg.
If it still does not work and you have followed the windows sound mixer advice above, please post your whole exult.cfg
Re: Music Won't Play
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2003 4:15 pm
by Joe Ust
Still won't play. It's probably something simple... all I get is the sound effects but no music. I'm using Windows XP. My paths are
c:\uc\u7\blackgate
data
c:\uc\u7\blackgate
blackgate
bgdefaultkeys.txt
c:\uc\u7\data\sqsfxbg.flx
c:\uc\u7\serpent
sidefaultkeys.txt
c:\uc\u7\data\sqsfxsi.flx
1
no
yes
no
no
yes
no
no
yes
no
no
0
yes
yes
gs
yes
gm
no
0
no
0
1.0000
-1
yes
yes
320
200
2
yes
no
SuperEagle
1.00
1.00
1.00
Re: Music Won't Play
Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2003 10:46 pm
by nadir
Can you play a MIDI file by double clicking it in Windows Explorer ?
Is the MIDI mixer level turned up ?
The cfg looks fine to me.
Re: Music Won't Play
Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 4:10 pm
by Joe Ust
Okay, this is pretty embarrassing. The midi device was configured incorrectly by default. It had been playing midi previously before I tried installing some software that loaded some old drivers. It must've messed with my sound. It is now working correctly. Sorry to have bothered you all!
Re: Music Won't Play
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:26 pm
by fred ward
I have all my music in Musicmatch which is out ob business. I cant transfer information to another computer music rites don't exist?
Re: Music Won't Play
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:09 pm
by Dominus
spam? I actually hope it is spam...