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Blood seriesblood 1 : the music is too loud(14 posts)(14 posts)
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Posted June 17, 2011
hello everybody,

This game is awesome but there is a slightly annoying problem : the music is too loud ( they are excellent btw)!
I tried to change the volume in the options but nothing happened! And it is the same thing when I want to change the musicVolume in the blood.cfg file :

[Sound Setup]
;
;
FXDevice = 6
MusicDevice = 7
FXVolume = 220
MusicVolume = 97------------------> I tried to change it but nothing happened :(
NumVoices = 32
NumChannels = 2
NumBits = 16
MixRate = 44000
MidiPort = 0x330
BlasterAddress = 0x220
BlasterType = 6
BlasterInterrupt = 5
BlasterDma8 = 1
BlasterDma16 = 5
BlasterEmu = 0x620
ReverseStereo = 0
;
;
CDVolume = 255




Would you know what do I have to do?
I've got windows 7 64 bit.

Thank you!
Posted June 17, 2011
think the music is actually the CDVOLUME setting
and you might need to update the included version of DOSBox.
Posted June 18, 2011
I tried that but it is the same result ;(
how do you update the dosbox?
Posted June 18, 2011
Head to DOSBox.com, download the latest version, and overwrite GOG's install of it.
Posted June 19, 2011
thank you!
Won't it make my saves unusable, though? (where are the saves by the way?)
Posted June 19, 2011
Your saves will be fine.

Just install the latest version of DOSbox to the DOSbox folder in your Blood directory and you'll be good to go.
Posted June 20, 2011
So I installed the 0.74 version of the dos box but i still cannot change the volume of the music..

And It seems i'm getting always the same soundtrack since episode 2 :(....
for example i'm at the first mission of the episode 3 and i'm not hearing this music : [url=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUNEoEal01k[/url]

that is strange..
Post edited June 20, 2011 by pimko
Posted June 20, 2011
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pimko: So I installed the 0.74 version of the dos box but i still cannot change the volume of the music..

And It seems i'm getting always the same soundtrack since episode 2 :(....
for example i'm at the first mission of the episode 3 and i'm not hearing this music : [url=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUNEoEal01k[/url]

that is strange..
IIRC fixes were implemented in DOSBox SVN. DOSBox 0.74 is alot older
Posted July 01, 2011
As mentioned in the Redbook audio Volume thread, you can use A custom DOSBox build to improve the support for Blood to change the CD audio volume within the game's options screen.
Posted November 09, 2011
Anyway how to disable music totally ?

-nomusic ?
Posted November 10, 2011
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Wessie: Anyway how to disable music totally ?

-nomusic ?
You can tell DOSBox to mount the game.gog file rather than game.inst in your dosboxBlood.conf file (open it with notepad). Blood will then play the midi tracks. If you wish to disable those as well, run Blood's setup utility (it should be the Setup link off the GoG.com\One Unit Whole Blood, start menu) and set your music card to "none".
Posted August 28, 2019
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pimko: hello everybody,

This game is awesome but there is a slightly annoying problem : the music is too loud ( they are excellent btw)!
I tried to change the volume in the options but nothing happened! And it is the same thing when I want to change the musicVolume in the blood.cfg file :

[Sound Setup]
;
;
FXDevice = 6
MusicDevice = 7
FXVolume = 220
MusicVolume = 97------------------> I tried to change it but nothing happened :(
NumVoices = 32
NumChannels = 2
NumBits = 16
MixRate = 44000
MidiPort = 0x330
BlasterAddress = 0x220
BlasterType = 6
BlasterInterrupt = 5
BlasterDma8 = 1
BlasterDma16 = 5
BlasterEmu = 0x620
ReverseStereo = 0
;
;
CDVolume = 255

Would you know what do I have to do?
I've got windows 7 64 bit.

Thank you!
Well, sorry for the late answer (8 years ...)

I managed to lower the CD volume by editing the file dosboxBlood_single.conf inside the blood directory.

You can adjust the volume with the command :
mixer cdaudio xx:yy where xx and yy are the volume levels in percentages for left and right channels.

Beware, this command must be entered AFTER the IMGMOUNT command for AUDIO CD (imgmount D "..\game.ins" -t iso)!

Here is my complete dosboxBlood_single.conf file with 30% volume for CD Audio output :

[ipx]
ipx=false

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

@ECHO OFF
mount C ".."
mount C "..\cloud_saves" -t overlay
imgmount D "..\game.ins" -t iso
mixer cdaudio 30:30
c:
goto launcher

:launcher
cls
ECHO ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ&I acute;ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ&Iacut e;ÍÍÍÍÍ»
ECHO º ------------------------------------------ º
ECHO º One Unit Whole Blood Launcher º
ECHO º ------------------------------------------ º
ECHO º 1) Blood º
ECHO º 2) Cryptic Passage º
ECHO º ------------------------------------------ º
ECHO º 3) Game DOS Settings º
ECHO º ------------------------------------------ º
ECHO º 4) exit program º
ECHO º ------------------------------------------ º
ECHO ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ&Iacut e;ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ&Iac ute;ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ&I acute;ÍÍͼ

choice /c1234 /s Which program do you want to run? [1-4]: /n
if errorlevel 4 goto exit
if errorlevel 3 goto setup
if errorlevel 2 goto addon
if errorlevel 1 goto game

:game
cls
blood.exe
goto exit

:addon
cls
CRYPTIC.EXE
goto exit

:setup
cls
setup.exe
goto launcher

:exit
exit
Post edited August 28, 2019 by edapiedade
Posted October 07, 2019
I updated my DOSBox like it was recommended in this thread and it wiped my saves and settings. It didn't fix the sound issue either.
Post edited October 07, 2019 by skwarde
Posted October 07, 2019
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skwarde: I updated my DOSBox like it was recommended in this thread and it wiped my saves and settings. It didn't fix the sound issue either.
If the only problem you had was the CD audio volume, the solution was right there in the post above yours.

The suggestion by Shadowcat was to test out a beta that they were apparently developing to improve Blood support, which was never mentioned again by them after those 2011 posts. Even the latest official DOSBox release is newer than that, so not a good sign.

In any case, changing the DOSBox version you use to run a game should in no way modify your game files. If that happened is because you mishandled the install in some way.
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