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No ambient music in Goblin's Quest 3

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First post, by Akril15

Posted on 2005-03-20, 03:49

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I am trying to play the CD version of Goblin's Quest 3. It runs fairly well under VDMSound, but there is absolutely no ambient music/sound. The sound effects play just fine, and there is music in the cutscenes, but no ambient music in the individual screens.

The unusual thing is that I also have the Gobliins 2 CD, and it plays ambient music/sound perfectly, so I don't understand why GQ3 is having this problem, since the two games are so similar.

I have tried changing the "SOUND:BLASTER+MEDIA" line in the GQ3 MDO.DEF file to "SOUND:BLASTER+MEDIA+NOSOUND+ADLIB+NOMDO" (since the G2 MDO.DEF file's line was like that), but that didn't help matters any.

Any tips on getting this game to work properly in VDMSound?

-Akril

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Intel Pentium III Processor
730 Mhz, 512 MB RAM
Intel 82815 Graphics Controller

Reply 1 of 5, by Reckless

Posted on 2005-03-20, 08:16

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IIRC Goblins needs you to use the sapucdex CD driver instead of the inbuilt one (mscdex). I don't know if this will fix your problem however as I've not tried it!

Reply 2 of 5, by Akril15

Posted on 2005-03-22, 01:25

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If by using the sapucdex CD driver you mean having "SAPUCDEX" typed into the AUTOEXEC.BAT options box under the DOS Environment tab under Advanced Properties, I've tried that. No difference, though.

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Reply 3 of 5, by DosFreak

Posted on 2005-03-22, 02:08

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No, SAPUCDEX is only to be used under NTVDM (NT Emulation). Not under DosBox.

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Reply 4 of 5, by collector

Posted on 2005-03-22, 05:02

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He is using VDMSound not DOSBox. It is odd since the game works perfectly for me with VDMS and SAPUCDEX. His game's config is identical to mine and Gobliins 2, a game that uses the same engine and setup, works fine on his machine.

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Reply 5 of 5, by DooMStalK

Posted on 2005-05-03, 18:49

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Try putting the full path of SAPUCDEX into your autoexec. For example, I installed it with VDMSound, so I have my autoexec point to "C:\Progra~1\VDMSound\SAPUCDEX.EXE".

That being said, I've got issues of my own. The game gets rather choppy whenever there's more than one sample being played at once. I can't remember if this is the game itself, or a VDMSound/Sapucdex issue. If its the latter, can anyone give me any tips on how to fix it?

Edit: it went away when I turned off music, so I guess it's Sapucdex's doing.

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