Castle Paradox

Lucier · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject: No sound in the OHR

i am unable to hear any sound when i run game.exe. at first i figured i just needed to download vdmsound, but even now that it's installed i still can't hear anything. i am running windows xp. any suggestions about what might be wrong or how to fix it? halp!
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

VDMS sound? That's for DOS applications. All of the latest OHR versions are Windows.

If you do have windows, you may need to turn on your MIDI mixer in volume control.
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Lucier · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 2:53 pm Post subject:

where is the midi mixer located within the volume control menu? mine has options for volume control, wave, synthesizer, cd player, and line in.
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

SW Synth is probably it, then.
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Lucier · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 3:03 pm Post subject:

hm well i took your advice and made sure the synth was turned fully up. but unfortunately i still have no sound in the OHR. what gives?
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Newbie_Power · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Posts: 1762

I"m not sure at this point. James might have a better answer.
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 4:21 pm Post subject:

Some questions:

*What version of the OHR are you running?
*Are any of your volume mixers turned down or muted?
*Have you tested other games, or is this just happening with one game?
*Have you tested both GAME.EXE and the music import menu in CUSTOM.EXE?
*What about the sound effects import menu?

Lucier · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject:

-i am using the newest version of the OHR.
-none of my volume mixers are turned down or muted.
-i have tested both my game and vikings of midgard.
-i checked game.exe and the music import menu and neither had sound.
-the sound effects DO work.

any ideas of what it could be?
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AdrianX · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:25 pm Post subject:

A similar thing happened to me once or twice,although i initially thought it was an OHR-only problem.

The sound effects indeed worked but the midi tracks didn't. I tried playing the said midi tracks outside OHR (winamp and windows media player) and surprisingly they didn't work too, while other sound formats (mp3 and wav) are loud and clear.

TwinHamster · Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:49 pm Post subject:

In older versions, I remember making sure that SW Synth was on before starting game.exe; however, it would occasionally turn itself off as I played.

This hasn't happened to me in quite a while.
Then again, I haven't been using Midis for quite a while.

Fenrir-Lunaris · **WUT** Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 1747

See if this helps. Download the following package:

http://www.castleparadox.com/fenart/timidity.rar

Then, unzip its contents into C:/timidity
Try this out and see if it corrects the issue with sound effects?

Lucier · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject:

that fixed it, fenrir! thanks a bunch.
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TMC · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:11 am Post subject:

Strange, seems like a number of people have broken Windows installations which can't play MIDI files. Who knew supporting MIDI would be so hard?
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Bob the Hamster · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:05 am Post subject:

That is fascinating. I guess SDL_Mixer can automatically fall back on timidity if the OS MIDI synth fails.

This sounds FAQworthy :)

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