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Slow Midi music with VDMS shortcut

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First post, by Eug

Posted on 2004-02-23, 06:33

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I have this problem of midi music playing really slowly when I create a VDMS shortcut using the launchpad integration settings. However, the music runs at their proper speed when I just use the automatic "Run with VDMS" selection. What is happening here? I tried to find the default settings for VDMS (not VDMS.ini, but the one that has the memory and compatiblity options kept) but can't find it. Does anyone know where it is?

I am running Darklands. There are memory issues so I have to use the VDMS shortcut to disable some options. But it seems to have nothing to do with the game. Midi slow down still occurs when I ran the small music playing utility (jukebox) that came with it, and even when I did not edit any of the shortcut's settings. Just the creation of the shortcut seems to cause this weird effect. There is no slowdown when using default VDMS settings.

Thanks for any help.

Reply 1 of 5, by MiniMax

Posted on 2004-02-23, 13:50

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> the one that has the memory and compatiblity options kept) but can't find it. Does anyone know where it is?

Are you refering to CONFIG.NT and AUTOEXEC.NT? I think they are in the WINDOWS\system32 folder.

Reply 2 of 5, by vladr

Posted on 2004-02-24, 00:41

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Launchpad generates a temporary VDMS.INI that will be found in your temp directory (type %TEMP% in Explorer) for a few seconds after you run the shortcut. The only difference between the files LaunchPad generates and the old "Run with VDMS" files is the AdLib FM syntheis rate (44kHz in LaunchPad, 11kHz in the other) - on slow computers this may hit you.

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Reply 3 of 5, by Guest

Posted on 2004-02-24, 02:53

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Minimax:
No, I meant VDMS options like amount of EMS or XMS, DosX support and joystick support.

Vladr:
The problem is in MIDI emulation, not in adlib emulation. I wasn't using adlib.

When you open a VDMS custom shortcut, you can see some ini type settings in there. I am thinking that this overrides some other ini file elsewhere. These settings arn't in VDMS.ini, but don't they have to be kept somewhere? Unless they are all hardcoded into VDMS.

Reply 4 of 5, by vladr

Posted on 2004-02-26, 00:55

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don't they have to be kept somewhere?

Please read my initial reply again, the very first sentence actually.
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Reply 5 of 5, by Eug

Posted on 2004-03-03, 04:18

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Wait, I think I found it. VDMS loads from config.vdms and autoexec.vdms when initiated right?

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