The General MIDI patch was the culprit. It replaced all of the XMI files in the uw2\sound directory. Putting the original ones from Abandonia back in solved the problem. This makes me curious, since I apparently kept playing with this patch installed back in the day. I'm going to turn on my old …

I ran across something fascinating in my UW2 sound directory. Check this attachment out. I was playing with General Midi back in the day after I got my first midi music keyboard, and apparently at some point I found a UW2 General MIDI patch and installed it! Way to go, me. The attachment is the …

And success. I don't know how, but my UW2 files were apparently messed up somehow, just enough to screw with the music but not enough to crash anything. The version from Abandonia gives correct sound. Thanks for the help everybody! If anyone else has this problem and happens on this in a search, my …

Yeah, the MP3 I posted was definitely the result I get when I use Sound Blaster Pro as the "music" sound card. i.e. the MP3 was NOT midi - I verified this by moving the "MIDI" slider in my mixer in windows while the game was running, with no volume change. The volume did change when I moved the " …

Yeah, that's about where I'm at with this troubleshoot. I think my version is from the original floppy set, but it's also possible it's from the CDROM collection with UW1 and UW2. (I had both since the way to get UW1 was to get that collection.)

Nope - removing and recreating dosbox.conf from defaults got me exactly the same sound. I wonder if the problem is with UW2 itself. I ran a patch on it that replaced these files: UW2.EXE Overwrite [Y/N] N FAQA.TXT Overwrite [Y/N] N DATA/CNV.ARK Overwrite [Y/N] N DATA/STRINGS.PAK Overwrite [Y/N] N …

So strange. My dosbox.conf also started out pretty much default. The only things I changed were adding an automatic mount command for c:\ and setting the display so it scaled properly in fullscreen. The file I recorded wasn't using midi... It was using the emulated fm synth. I can force it to use …

Yes! That's how it's supposed to sound, at least very close to it. Can you post the dosbox.conf you use to run UW2, and maybe tell me what sound cards are listed when you run 'uwsound' in dosbox? I've been kind of loosely saying "opl" to mean the FM synthesis the AdLib and Sound Blasters used to do, …

OK, so I recorded some samples of the UW2 music from Dosbox and strung them together in an MP3. If someone has time can you listen and compare with what you get? I just want to know if I'm getting the "expected" music output and I should stop trying to tweak it, or if I am not crazy and it in fact …

Forgot to mention, WinXP Pro. #Edit# Wanted to follow up, there is no change in behavior with dosbox 0.70. I also got the MIDI conversions of the UW2 music just to make sure I'm not remembering wrong. I'll come back in a bit and post a little mp3 of dosbox's output...

Hi all, I searched for quite a while and couldn't find this so here goes... I'm having issues getting the music synthesis working right in uw2, can anyone help? Some of the notes are really high pitched, some really low, some the wrong instrument. In the intro/title music the flute is one or two …