Sound problem

Captain Kwok · #1 September 25th, 2005, 03:53 PM

What about the obvious, is CD music set to true in settings.txt?

Ed Kolis · #2 September 25th, 2005, 06:12 PM

A similar thing happened to me recently; what I had to do is make sure my speakers are plugged into my sound card and not the internal sound system (note: this won't help if you lack a dedicated sound card!) and then go into the BIOS and disable the internal sound. Sometimes the internal sound seems to conflict with a dedicated sound card, so if you have one, it's probably best to disable the internal sound.

PlanetNapalm · #3 September 27th, 2005, 12:54 PM

I suddenly realized that I had never actually played a CD on this computer (it's new) so I popped some Hendrix in the drive and...it works just fine. The volume seemed very low. I put the SEIV disk back in and no music. I think it's time for a new CD player. I can install the game, but when I explore the CD, I am unable to open the readme.txt or either of the folders. However on the old computer it all works fine. Thanks for the ideas, I will start with a new CD player and see if that solves my problem.

Ragnarok · #4 September 27th, 2005, 03:16 PM

Did you try what Kwok recommended? Browse to the data folder where you installed the game and open settings.txt.
One of the first lines in there is Code:

Allow CD Music                                                        := TRUE

If it says FALSE instead of TRUE, that is the reason you cannot play CD music in the game.

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Captain Kwok said:
What about the obvious, is CD music set to true in settings.txt?

Captain Kwok · #5 September 27th, 2005, 05:14 PM

You might want to see if you can view the audio tracks with a CD player like Windows Media Player or similar.

Xrati · #6 September 27th, 2005, 10:40 PM

If you have a CD recording program it probably has a CD info program that checks read/write speeds and times. You might want to run that and see if the CD player is properly configured.

PlanetNapalm · #7 October 1st, 2005, 04:12 AM

The settings file has allow CD music = True

I went ahead and bought a new CD player/writer.

I can play the music on the CD with WMP. No problem.

I also notice that when I go to "My Computer" the Icon for the CD is missing, also sometimes I am unable to open the readme file on the CD or either of the directories. Just now I was able to open them, but I could not open any of the files in the Extras directory. I was asked to make sure the CD was in the drive.

And everything works fine on the old PC.

EaX · #8 October 1st, 2005, 06:56 PM

If the cd drive is new then it seems to be a windows problem, drivers or something. Maybe you could try the Recovery Console, i've never used XP, bah, i hate it, i've 2k and so far only minor problems.

PlanetNapalm · #9 October 3rd, 2005, 01:08 AM

I only hate windows software that I've used. Which is just about all of it. However, in this case, I don't know how it can be an XP problem. Everything else works just fine. Granted this is a new computer set up, and the only games I have installed are Prince of Persia and Knights of Honor. Knights has a soundtrack and there is no problem hearing it. I suspicious of the CD itself. Seems odd that sometimes I can open the readme file and at other times I cannot.

I will try making a copy of it on the old computer which has no problem with the disk and see what happens.