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No Music in Game
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:49 pm
by Arafura
Hi, I am trying to play Drakan in Windows Vista. It runs great, but the music is missing. Sound effects play fine. It sounds like an issue covered in the tips and help section on this site for XP... but that won't work for me. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 6:44 pm
by Eris
Didn't this help?
Extract from help page:-
Users of Windows XP who have a SoundBlaster card will probably suffer from the problem of no music but sound effects working OK. This can be sorted by running dxdiag from the command prompt or start>run then going to the music tab then clicking on disable default port acceleration. Credits to doom_2er for this one.
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 9:26 pm
by Outlaw Wyvern
Vista's nutsy.
If someone finds the Vista-specific workaround for that problem in Drakan, you can bet this is where it'll be posted.
Patience...
Wish I had your answer, though.
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:03 pm
by Eris
I was just searching for some info about Shilla bug on PD and though I didn't find anything useful on that topic yet, I've found a very interesting fix for this sound problem -
http://forumplanet.gamespy.com/the_orac ... 2295/p1/?1
And this really helps. I tried to play Drakan on my Vista OS and it runs just as Arafura described and then I tried the fix and it worked.
I hope I have the rights to copy here the fix from PlanetDrakan for those ppl who don't like to wait while PD pages get opened because it takes a little too much time. The fix was given by Searinox_Navras. So here it comes:
"I am hoping that this will prove of great help to all future Drakan fans who want to run the game on Vista and have this issue. I have found a neat EXE debugging tool that shows what DLLs and registry keys a program tries to access. I have found 7 DLLs which Drakan was requiring but could not find, even though the game runs fine. Among them, dmsynth.dll, whose presence in the game folder makes the music work again. Search it on google and download it from the first site result, then put it in your game folder. Great fortune to you all. <3"
If I shouldn't copy this here then AT plz remove it.
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:23 am
by AXE
Excellent Eris
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:03 pm
by Arokhs Twin
It's fine Eris
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:10 pm
by bansaiii
Nice! Worked for me as well on WinVista 64-Bit and a Soundblaster X-Fi Fatality Champion-Series Soundcard