First post, by Benji
Glad I found this forum. Building a Win 98 machine and was testing with this game. As you may recall, the game used red book audio to play the soundtrack directly from the CD-rom drive, using an analog or digital cable connected to your sound card. This works fine using any IDE drive I hook up to my Audigy 2 card, with one exception: the music audio is completely unresponsive to the volume slider unless you turn it off completely in the settings. For those that remember the game, there's a .cog script that turns off the red book audio in the opening cantina scene, but (I think due to the same problem) this doesn't work.
Developers at the time were aware of this issue: This is in the readme file:
We have found some computers unresponsive to the Music Slider in the Setup/Sound menu. In such cases, we found it impossible to turn the music off. If your computer does not respond to a change in music volume, set the Music Volume Slider to zero. Another option is to change the Windows volume by double clicking on the Volume icon in the Windows 95 Taskbar and adjusting the volume control.
I remember playing this game back in the Win95/98 era and never seeing this problem, so I am trying to pinpoint the reason. I am running all this on a P4 system w/ a P4P800...but I suspect it may be the more modern IDE CD/DVD Rom-drives I've tried...all three of I've used exhibit the same problem...but I recall that older CD-Rom drives had a volume control and headphone jack on the front. Could it be that these older CD-Rom drives allowed for volume manipulation in software whereas the newer ones did not? Only answer I can come up with at this point.
I also tested this w/ another motherboard (an LGA775 board) using WinXP and onboard audio, and the problem was still there.
Not much of an issue, but more a curiosity at this point. Anyone have any ideas?