Music not playing

[ckeck]

Originally Posted by Mahoney

Your music volume is not at 0% in your options menu? (alt-o while in game)
That would be the only problem for zone music not playing.

It was set at 0 initially, but I raised it up and still nothing...

[techguy84]

Does sound work period? Sounds wierd that you music just wont play. Are the music files in place in your eq folder. Anything else running that could be conusming audio channels at the same time as EQ?

[ckeck]

Originally Posted by techguy84

Does sound work period? Sounds wierd that you music just wont play. Are the music files in place in your eq folder. Anything else running that could be conusming audio channels at the same time as EQ?

There are no conflicts which would cause this. Midi files work find outside of the game...

All the other sounds work...effects, combat music, etc...

I remember a few years ago I had this problem on live and a tech helped me fix it, but not sure what we did.

This stinks...I really enjoy the zone music and it feels very empty without it. It could also be the fact that I'm the only one on the entire server also

[vales]

In your sound options (Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices), select the Audio tab and in the section where it says MIDI Music Playback, switch it to Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth in the pull-down menu. Depending on your sound card, it might not have the ability to play MIDI files from the old EQ zones.

On older SoundBlaster cards you had the option to fill the SoundBanks with instruments which gave MIDI a whole different sound experience. But that uses system memory, and that option has been long gone since the newer cards came out.

I used to fill my soundbanks with 128+ instruments, and it made EQ sound like a freaking orchestra was playing. As the years went on, I got sick and tired of changing them and just selected the Microsoft one and found out that it gets the job done just fine. Plus it was a pain to configure all of the instruments only to find out on of the drums was botched.

The reason why combat and death music work fine is because they're MP3s. So are the newer zones and later that were released after PoP.

Hope that helps.

[kc5wee]

Ha! I got mine to work, goto start, run, sndvol32, and unmute SW Synth. (some drivers may say something else)

[ckeck]

Thanks for posting this! My SWSYNT was not muted, but the volume was all the way down. Simple as that - thanks!

[Nyrod]

so ive been doing some searching through tons of posts and threads pertaining to the music and still cant seem to find a solution. i am having the exact problem, were i can hear combat/theme/merchant music but no other music ie zone music.

im using vista and web search didnt give me any info on how to possibly "turn up" my midi as you are able to in XP etc. ive gone through all the audio options in vista a million times and im sure there is just something im missing.

XP


Vista