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Motherboard soket a a7v

Processor type athlon and speed 800

Sound board : sound blaster live 1024 with the latest drivers on

Operating system : win xp

Game name: drakkhen

Description of problem: the sound really suks...after evry fx the music stop , the music and the effect are really ugly.

Reproducibility of problem: always

sound used : well thats the problem...the game dont let me set anything and apart of that i have tried to run the game with evry mappature on vdmsound but all seems related to the adlib emulator (when i disable it no music or effect exist)

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I dont want to waste your time...i wrote the post only after have read all the forum...and obviusly the guidelines....

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Dont talk to me like you do with an idiot 😁

thx in advance for your support.

Originally posted by Unregistered I dont want to waste your time...i wrote the post only after have read all the forum...and obv […]
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Originally posted by Unregistered I dont want to waste your time...i wrote the post only after have read all the forum...and obviusly the guidelines....

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Dont talk to me like you do with an idiot

If you read the guidelines, why didn't you give us an idea of your system specs in the first place? Since we obviously have no access to your PC, we need system specs to narrow down the number of possible issues that could be causing a problem. Without any system info (especially processor and OS), there's a near-infinite number of things to consider.

If you don't supply it upfront, we have to ask "20 Questions" every time.

the sound really suks...after evry fx the music stop , the music and the effect are really ugly.

That's a pretty subjective description. How is it different from when it sounded normal? Too fast? too slow? Background noise? Distorted samples?

sound used : well thats the problem...the game dont let me set anything and apart of that i have tried to run the game with evry mappature on vdmsound but all seems related to the adlib emulator

Well, I believe AdLib is all your going to get, I'm pretty sure there's no digital audio.

I tested Drakkhen in Win98SE, WinXP (native SB emulation), and WinXP with VDMSound. Running using XP's native SB emulation gave me no audio at all, not surprising as I can't recall the last time XP's FM emulation actually worked.

The results in 98SE and XP with VDMSound were the same: it worked fine. The AdLib sounded fairly weak, but I'm pretty sure that's how it was intended to sound.

About the only thing that could improve it would be to change the synthesis rate to 44100 Hz.

You might prefer emulating another system's version of the game. The Amiga and Atari ST versions only used 16 colors, but graphically they aren't that much different (I think this is primarily because the game was developed for the Atari ST, then ported for other systems). Other systems sometimes received enhancements: the PC's palette was increased to 256 colors, the SNES version had the larger palette plus a modified interface, and the Amiga got copper-list support (used for the sky coloring and the day/night effects) and stereo output.

The Amiga version doesn't have the FM music, but replaces it with digital audio samples (ambient sound effects and an occasional piece of music).

Included a comparison pic: Amiga version on the left side, PC on the right.

That's a pretty subjective description. How is it different from when it sounded normal? Too fast? too slow? Background noise? Distorted samples?

I dont know what the normal sound for this game is (i have downloaded a sample of midi of drakkhen and it sound good so i suppose this is thegood sound).
When the game start the music can seem ok but , if you know the game , when i touch a tree the music stop. Evry effect are distorted...

I really dont know how to let you know the problem because ,for my english, is too difficult to explain a problem of sound without emulate it with speaking instead of writing.

i will try the amiga version...hoping to found an emulator and a rom sigh!

Of COURSE a MIDI will sound better. It's using wavetable synthesis instead of FM synthesis. I don't think this is a problem with VDMSound.

the file of the midi said:

samples of drakkhen sound....and came with the extension midi.

i report the link..can you tell me if the sound of the game resembles it?

http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=340

Okay, dude. Once again. The ONLY THING that will sound the same is the tune. AdLib doesn't even USE MIDI -- it uses its own format.

Originally posted by Unregistered I dont know what the normal sound for this game is (i have downloaded a sample of midi of drakkhen and it sound good so i suppose this is thegood sound).

The MIDI that was created may have been based on the AdLib audio in the game, but the game itself, does not support MIDI. So it will never sound the MIDI tune you found.

When the game start the music can seem ok but , if you know the game , when i touch a tree the music stop. Evry effect are distorted...

That's because the AdLib audio has a hard time playing music and generating sound effects at the same time (it has a hard time making sound effects at all).

Whenever a sound effect is played (like hitting a tree). It will wait for the sound effect to finish playing and the restart the music from the beginning (it starts very quietly). That is normal.

I really dont know how to let you know the problem because ,for my english, is too difficult to explain ...

I think we understand well enough. It simply will not sound like the MIDI you found.

Besides the PC version is missing that distinctly jolly French tune when you enter the Pub. *heh*