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First post, by Muz

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Hi, does anyone have tried put a midi file in a Virtual PC, running old OS, and try to play it, but it sounds like a weird sound. Does anyone knows how to fix that sound?

Also, why is the MIDI soundfont in the old OS, sounds different?

Reply 3 of 12, by Jo22

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leileilol wrote:

Not using VirtualPC helps. It has the worst OPL3 emulator ever

Does it provide OPL3 emulation at all ?
Early versions of Connetix VPC started out with SB Pro support (dual OPL2 ?), so perhaps they modded it later on for OPL3's stereo mode
(in terms of addressing left/right channel) but haven't otherwise updated the OPL emulation itself (essencially still stuck with OPL2 registers/no 4-OP mode).
I'm just curious, since OPL2 games like SkyRoads don't sound all that bad in VPC.. ^^

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Reply 7 of 12, by Jo22

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Hmm.. Try to install the latest DirectX 9 runtime (web installer), it's still beeing updated I think.

.. or look for the D3DX9_29_dll_update / D3DX9_30_dll_update package.

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In what to one race is no time at all, another race can rise and fall..." - The Minstrel

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