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Posted September 10, 2012
When I play Worms 2, I have no background music. They seam to be in the installation directory and there is a menu option, where I can choose which of them should be played, but the game itself has no music.
Well the frontend actually has music, but just the top window. As soon as I click any button, the music stops, which is very annoying.

I could use a media player to play the music files in the background, but that would be more of a hack than a solution.
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Posted September 16, 2012
No comment? Does anyone have music in Worms, or is it just another thing that didn't make it into the gog-release, like the Lan-Mode?
Posted September 16, 2012
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Jonathan: No comment? Does anyone have music in Worms, or is it just another thing that didn't make it into the gog-release, like the Lan-Mode?
It's a bit spotty on my lappie. Sometimes it plays, sometimes it doesn't. Got a bit annoying after a while, so I just turned it off altogether and I play my own music or listen to the radio while I'm blasting Worms. The in-game music isn't all that great anyway. *shrug*
Posted September 21, 2012
As "mistermumbles" mentioned to fix his/her problem, Try Windows XP compatability mode.

My issues:

1 - The intro movie's sound started to lose sync while playing
2 - No music during the levels, only in the menu
3 - After finishing a match, the game freezes and you can't click on the box

These were all fixed after running in compatibility mode.

UPDATE: I think I popped the champagne too early. The movies are still out of sync, even when playing in VLC out of the game. I think they have been re-encoded poorly. The music is still hit and miss. The only problem that compatibility mode fixed permanently is the not being able to click buttons after finishing a match. However you still can't minimise, ALT + TAB etc.

I have always had strange problems with Worms 2, there must be something with the engine or the way it was programmed or something, its just not a happy camper on modern operating systems.
Post edited September 23, 2012 by ckeech
Posted November 01, 2012
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ckeech: As "mistermumbles" mentioned to fix his/her problem, Try Windows XP compatability mode.

My issues:

1 - The intro movie's sound started to lose sync while playing
2 - No music during the levels, only in the menu
3 - After finishing a match, the game freezes and you can't click on the box

These were all fixed after running in compatibility mode.

UPDATE: I think I popped the champagne too early. The movies are still out of sync, even when playing in VLC out of the game. I think they have been re-encoded poorly. The music is still hit and miss. The only problem that compatibility mode fixed permanently is the not being able to click buttons after finishing a match. However you still can't minimise, ALT + TAB etc.

I have always had strange problems with Worms 2, there must be something with the engine or the way it was programmed or something, its just not a happy camper on modern operating systems.
Got the game today and same problems here with no music and lag on videos. hope it will get sorted.
Posted August 10, 2013
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Jonathan: When I play Worms 2, I have no background music. They seam to be in the installation directory and there is a menu option, where I can choose which of them should be played, but the game itself has no music.
Well the frontend actually has music, but just the top window. As soon as I click any button, the music stops, which is very annoying.

I could use a media player to play the music files in the background, but that would be more of a hack than a solution.
I ran worms2.exe as admin and it seemed to come on by itself.
Post edited August 10, 2013 by psadler
Posted August 23, 2013
You can't don anything about the videos: they've been badly encoded from the beginning.
If you own the CD version, you can re-encode the .avi from the CD to .wmv and put them in your worms2 folder instead of the GOG-provided ones. I did my re-enconding with winff (a wrapper around libav/ffmpeg), and it works well.

For the music, I don't understand where the problem is.
Sometime you have it, sometime not, and I didn't find anything to sort this out.
The only way I've find for now has been to write a little script launching a media player without interface playing randomly the tracks when frontend.exe is launched, and terminating the media player together with frontend.exe.
But that way the menu music and the game music overlap when in the menu.
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