Sound Issues!

[BerserkerTails]

Okay, now this is the problem...

I'm having trouble with sound while PLAYING AGS games. I've noticed ALOT of games have had crackling sounds during midi music, and the voices/soundeffects have been WAY louder than the music. They too, crackle horrendously.

At first, it only seemed to happen in some games. Games like AGDI's two KQ remakes, Pleurghburg, etc... All workerd perfectly. But I just finished downloading the ISO of Adv. of Fatman, and the music is crackling like crazy, and the voices are even worse.

Now I know with the quality of this game, they wouldn't release it in this state. What can I do to fix this problem? My soundcard is a Sound Blaster Live Value.

I've tried messing with the options in the config, and also tried turning up the MIDI balance in my Play Control, but as soon as I close it, the MIDI balance goes back down again.

Another notes that may help to solving the problem: I'm using Windows 98 2nd edition.

Thanks in advance, I *REALLY* want to play this great game!

[Gilbert]

Hmmm actually I also have the problem of MIDI volume being too low when playing under windows, maybe you can try installing some of the software synthesizers and make it the WAVE channel to play MIDI music and see if that helps. (I don't care much about it personally as I on;y want my game to work properly under DOS).

Note: Pleurghburg didn't use MIDI music, and if you installed also the music paks for the KQ games, they're not played with MIDI either, so they won't coutn.

[modgeulator]

Does your motherboard have a VIA chipset? I've never been able to get my SBLive to work properly on my current computer - only solved it by replacing the card with something more compatible.
For a quick fix for your MIDI problem you could try going to Control Panel: Sounds and Audio (or maybe it's Multimedia on Win98), Audio tab, change the MIDI default device to Microsoft GS Wavetable.