I have searched a lot and found quite a few posts (and solutions) to the previous problem of X-wing '98 not launching at all on Win10, and fixing it by replacing Winmm.dll. However, I understand GOG has "fixed" that now, and indeed the game does launch. It does not, however, have any in-game music (other than cutscenes, which I assume have music baked in).

I have tried several of the "fixed" winmm.dll's out there from when the game just crashed on Win10, but none of the ones I tried restore the music. Any ideas?

Thank you in advance for any help anyone can provide!

I actually have just noticed this issue as well, I'm sure I used to have music playing when I first bought the game, but now when I play it's silent and feels awkward. Anyone know what's up with that?

Can you try this fix?
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=23188390292219039574

Just extract everything to the game directory.


Edit: new version
https://www.gog.com/forum/star_wars_xwing_and_tie_fighter_series/xwing_98_music/post10

The .exe file in this download causes my cursor to stop halfway across the screen.

Greg

Did you enable "Software Cursor" from the game's launcher?

Anyway in case you can't get the downloaded exe to work properly you can try editing your original exe yourself. I posted instructions on what needs to be done on the Steam forums.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/354430/discussions/0/348292787748609234/

I wonder, should we do the same thing for TIE Fighter ?

Yes, Tie Fighter suffers from the same issue.

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=04771470645122811427

good to know

will test that tonight ^_^

Any update on this yet? I have no music for either X-wing or Tie Fighter 98 versions? I downloaded the games as of 11/11/16.

Thanks for your fix, but why doesn't GOG have this working with there own downloaded version.

This should fix the issue with the music stopping/not looping:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wjj50h7v1cin6vz/X-Wing_TieMusicFix.zip?dl=0

This is working great for the music, played for 3 hours on both X Wing and Tie Fighter and the music is working as supposed to.

But I noticed in X Wing a bug, where some missions can't be completed (like OP4 Mission 7, the ships that are supposed to come don't and it cant be completed) and OP4 Mission 11, where your wingmate starts attacking our own captured ships. This didn't happen with the original game files!!

I downloaded this from your link and extracted it to my X-Wing game, but it didn't fix the issue. I'm sure I did something wrong; I don't understand the process of what to do with what I downloaded from your link. Can you explain how to get this set up correctly and how the folders should be arranged within which folders to make the game recognize it and play the music during the missions?

Thank you for helping everyone with a fix, please help me take advantage of it...this is one of my favorite games!

OP4 Mission 11:
Were those really captured or just disabled ships? A Wingman attacking disabled ships happens constantly in X-Wing and Tie Fighter. For that reason you should either tell them "Wait" or "Ignore Target" after you disabled a craft that needs to survive.

OP4 Mission 7:
I just tried that mission and it worked fine. It might just be a mission scripting error that happens only sometimes.



Move everything inside the X-WingMusicFix folder to the game's root directory, i.e. the directory that contains XWING95.EXE. If you do it properly you should be asked for permission to overwrite multiple files.

I'll try with the original EXE files, only modifying the needed part (win32 thing) and tell what happens.
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Edit: I did it and so far, all problems are gone. I just changed the winmm.dll to win32.dll as instructed with an hexadecimal editor and used the rest of dlls from this page. Now I have music all the way and no bugs.

Maybe it was because I have the Steam version and people here are testing with GoG's one.