try updating windows media player
can you play gw2.wma by double clicking on it ?

any help
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums/archive/ … p/t-629252.html

My WMP is up to date, GW2.wma plays normally by double click, both .dlls are in TD6's directory. Still no music...

A bump but still... it could be that it relies on the WMA source filter, which was part of WinXP but removed in Vista and Win7. I think it's what prevents Ford Racing 2 from working too on Vista/Win7.

Finally got to install this, it's likely part of the WMA playback stuff that was removed in newer Windows.

As per Ford Racing 2, I did a quick "halfway house" to get the music playing via Windows Media Player at least, see attached.

Now my only real problems with Test Drive 6 are:

1. Resolution in-game is messed up with my high res monitor, and only detects 2 resolutions of 0.0.0bit and 80.0.0bit (or 100 if one of the compatibility modes is used), both of which are super low-res.

2. Frame rate is terrible compared to old Pentium4 PC.

I think the resolution data may be stored in the TD6.pm0 (pm1 etc) files, but I can't understand them!

Haven't fixed the resolution issue yet, however the framerate can be improved by either running in a window or using the DDRAW.dll replacement for Windows 8.1 (from Windows_8_8_1_DDRAW_FPS_FIX.zip) that improves performance in older games. However the latter will cause parts of the scenery to disappear(!) so it might be a case of using dxwnd to run the window fullscreen, perhaps. More to investigate later methinks. There's an ACT fix too here, which I might try later: http://www.blitzbasic.com/Community/post.php? … 77&post=1202630

I tried Dege's DirectDraw/D3D wrapper and that doesn't work (though I've not got it working it anything yet, so will look more into this later, when I get to Extreme-G2 which someone else said it definitely works in). Still that's point 2 almost sorted... almost...

There's a dirty hack you can use to get the game running filling the screen at a decent frame rate, if low-res.

Given the game currently mis-detects my graphics card, so the in-game video options do nothing to raise the resolution, and using the DDRAW.dll replacement makes many parts of the scenery transparent, what you can do is this:

1. Go to the Test Drive 6 install folder, right-click TD6.exe and tick "Run in 640x480 screen resolution".
2. Start the game, and in the "Rendering" tab, tick "Begin in a Window".
3. Run the game, and now there will be full screen at decent frame rate. Effectively you're only running the windowed version though, and cropping the screen to the game itself!

There might be a more elegant solution with dxwnd, but I've never looked into that. From what Dege was saying, his DX wrapper too might have the missing scenery issues, for now at least.

VirtuaIceMan wrote:

Finally got to install this, it's likely part of the WMA playback stuff that was removed in newer Windows.

Windows Media Audio is a microsoft thing. Why would they remove it?

Are you sure you didn't have weird codec packs installed instead? They can screw lots of games afaik

I don't think it's WMA as such, rather the filter they used to stream it, that's been deprecated. Not many games rely on it, as many of the era have CD audio.

This reminded me of these.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedet … s/?id=119489135
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedet … s/?id=113399618

Could they be any helpful?

It's the method used to playback the digital audio that's unsupported. Test Drive 6, like Ford Racing 2, used a method to stream the wma files which is unsupported now. They don't use CD audio.

A smalll update: the music works in Ubuntu running inside VirtualBox...

After a bit of research, I found this: http://wiki.winehq.org/Sound It would seem that the file responsible for music playback in Test Drive 6 is either winmm.dll or dsound.dll. I tried to copy these files from Ubuntu to Windows and put them in TD6 directory, but the game wouldn't start after that (yeah, it may seem foolish, but it didn't hurt to just try).

Hi tgomola !

I know this topic is quite old, and maybe you've already solved the problem, but I found a method which operates for Windows 10 :

1. Download "Media Player Codec Pack" and install following the instructions.
2. In the Start menu, go to "Settings"
3. In the search bar, type "Default apps"
4. Choose "Windows Media Player" in the "Choose an application" pop up menu for the "Video player" section

Hope this method will help you, and sorry if I made language mistakes, I may have forgotten some english lessons... 😵

Oh, and a funny thing to do : in the file Cryo > Test Drive 6 > Music, we can exchange musics' names. For example, if you rename "KM1" with "EM3", you'll run in London listening to Dog's Life ! 😵

Please, codec packs are the evil.
If this solution works, it's really probably just about ffdshow LAVFilters