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Tex Murphy seriesOverseer background music not playing(6 posts)(6 posts)
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Posted February 25, 2011
Overseer is playing fine except the ambient background music isn't playing, all other sounds are playing as they should. All slider bars and Mute buttons have been turned on and off and have no effect.
Windows 7, 64 bit.

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Post edited March 09, 2011 by maxtormaxtor
Posted March 02, 2011
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maxtormaxtor: Overseer is playing fine except the ambient background music isn't playing, all other sounds are playing as they should. All slider bars and Mute buttons have been turned on and off and have no effect.
Windows 7, 64 bit.
are you talking about the midi sound , by default the midi is muted in the overseer config panel as the game crashes . With the midi active you should be getting the error message " error does not indicate error"
I have a creative sound card with midi drivers so I have my midi activated .microsoft disabled the midi mapper in win 7 & vista so to select the midi you need a patch file.

" you need a sound card with midi drivers for this to work".
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Posted April 23, 2011
What you need is to edit tex.ini and change "DriverName=MIDI Mapper" to "DriverName=Microsoft MIDI Mapper". While you're at it, make sure "mute" is set to "No". Works with 64 bit 7.
Post edited April 23, 2011 by Chaky2
Posted April 23, 2011
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Chaky2: What you need is to edit tex.ini and change "DriverName=MIDI Mapper" to "DriverName=Microsoft MIDI Mapper". While you're at it, make sure "mute" is set to "No". Works with 64 bit 7.
if you get the " error does not mean error message" you have to mute the midi as it crashes at gideons gallery. The default microsft midi does not work in the game
Post edited April 23, 2011 by plumgas
Posted April 23, 2011
Microsoft GS Wavetable doesn't work, giving that error message, but "Microsoft MIDI mapper" does work. I don't know about giden's gallery, though.

If I remember correctly, the default value for MIDI in .ini file is "MIDI Mapper" (without "Microsoft") which gave me a blank list in MIDI devices selection in game config menu.
Truth be told, I first changed it to "MIDI Parser", and that's when I got the choices shown in config menu between MS GS Wavetable and MS MIDI Mapper, which are essentially the same.

Giving that I'm running it on Windows 7 (that all but dropped the support for MIDI alltogether), it is a full success to have MIDI ingame at all.

Edit:
I have a Realtek soundcard (embedded) and absolutely no MIDI drivers installed. All the MIDI I'm getting is software-based, which Microsoft GS Wavetable essentially is since DirectX 7.
Post edited April 23, 2011 by Chaky2
Posted April 24, 2011
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Chaky2: Microsoft GS Wavetable doesn't work, giving that error message, but "Microsoft MIDI mapper" does work. I don't know about giden's gallery, though.

If I remember correctly, the default value for MIDI in .ini file is "MIDI Mapper" (without "Microsoft") which gave me a blank list in MIDI devices selection in game config menu.
Truth be told, I first changed it to "MIDI Parser", and that's when I got the choices shown in config menu between MS GS Wavetable and MS MIDI Mapper, which are essentially the same.

Giving that I'm running it on Windows 7 (that all but dropped the support for MIDI alltogether), it is a full success to have MIDI ingame at all.

Edit:
I have a Realtek soundcard (embedded) and absolutely no MIDI drivers installed. All the MIDI I'm getting is software-based, which Microsoft GS Wavetable essentially is since DirectX 7.
yes thats right the microsoft GS wavetable doesn't work, in the past players had that selected & when they activated the midi in overseer thats when the error message arose.
I had been telling people for years that they had to mute the midi & then I found out it would work after I installed a creative card. All of a sudden midi mapper appeared in the configuration. I could never get it going with my realtek on board sound but I noticed the other day I have another pc with no creative midi drivers & the midi mapper showed up.

I found also downloading the midi mapper for vista/win 7 helps

Ps the midi crashing is only with the GS wavetop selected.
Post edited April 24, 2011 by plumgas
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