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First post, by MadMonk

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I think DosBox v. 0. 70 had better game music quality compared to v. 0. 73. For example in Duke Nukem II when using v. 0. 70 you can clearly hear the guitar parts during music unlike in v. 0. 73 they sounds quietly. How can I get the same music quality to v. 0. 73?

Reply 1 of 7, by lightmaster

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editing your dosbox.conf

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Reply 2 of 7, by Qbix

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well the default volume level might have been lowered a bit.
So you could experiment with the mixer a bit.
other than that I would experiment with the oplemu setting

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Reply 3 of 7, by eL_PuSHeR

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Reply 4 of 7, by robertmo

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first of all choose general midi in game's setup

Reply 5 of 7, by MadMonk

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I have following options on Sound Blaster section in DosBox v. 0. 73:

sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
sbmixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplemu=default
oplrate=22050

On oplemu I've tried ''default'', ''compat'', ''fast'' and ''old'' and none of them helped.

Reply 6 of 7, by wd

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...and how did you configure the game??

Reply 7 of 7, by Roxor

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MadMonk wrote:
I have following options on Sound Blaster section in DosBox v. 0. 73: […]
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I have following options on Sound Blaster section in DosBox v. 0. 73:

sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
sbmixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplemu=default
oplrate=22050

On oplemu I've tried ''default'', ''compat'', ''fast'' and ''old'' and none of them helped.

Seeing as Duke Nukem II uses the OPL2 for the music, you'll probably want to try upping the oplrate and the mixer rate to something higher. I use 96000 for everything, although my sound card does support up to twice that. Just keep in mind that higher mixing rates do use more CPU and your sound card will need to support whatever mixer rate you pick.