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Re: 1.50.7.2 Fan Patch

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 1:00 pm
by Rocco
ok, can you also try the EN version jimtext with language.ini set at 4 (italian)?

Re: 1.50.7.2 Fan Patch

Posted: Tue May 09, 2017 1:17 pm
by Gumeroth
It seems to work! I've passed the part where the game usually stops. The text is in Italian, the buttons in English ...

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 7:44 am
by DesertRose
Anyone else having the issue that the sound is not working? Music works fine, and even the ending moive has sound (even with 0 BGM), but game sounds like firing a laser or pushing a button won't play.
I installed it this time with the Launcher, not manually.

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 8:33 am
by Rocco
Hi,
and playing older patch version, before installing with launcher, soundfx was fine?
also, you are sure that SoundFX bar in Game menu has some blue blocks? :) just need to ask.

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:16 pm
by DesertRose
The last version I installed manually was 1.50.7.2, and there the sounds work perfectly, I just tested it.
I installed 1.50.8 only with the Launcher, and I can enable/disable music, but the normal sounds do not play. Strangely, if I disable Music and have sound enabled the videos at the end have sound, so it's not like the slider has no effect.

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:18 pm
by Rocco
interesting issue.

the Launcher has its own dosbox configuration file.
perhaps the default sound settings in there are not correct for your system.
can you compare the the dosbox configs, especially the [mixer] and [sblaster] settings?

the settings for the 1.50.8 patch can be found in the file \150\dosbox-base.conf.
settings that apply for 1.50.7 are opened with DOSBox 0.74 Options.bat that can be found in your DOSBox installation folder.
-- Mine is under C:\Program Files (x86)\DOSBox-0.74\DOSBox 0.74 Options.bat --

If you notice differences, try making settings in the \150\dosbox-base.conf the same as in your generic DOSBox cfg.

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 5:23 am
by DesertRose
Options in 1.50.7.2

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[mixer] nosound=false rate=44100 blocksize=1024 prebuffer=20 [sblaster] sbtype=sb16 sbbase=220 irq=7 dma=1 hdma=5 sbmixer=true oplmode=auto oplemu=default oplrate=44100
Options in 1.50.8 (commented out are default values):

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[mixer] nosound=false rate=44100 blocksize=1024 ## blocksize=2048 prebuffer=80 [sblaster] sbtype=sb16 sbbase=220 irq=7 dma=1 hdma=5 sbmixer=true oplmode=auto oplemu=default oplrate=44100 ## oplrate=22050
Still no sound ingame, music still works.

Any more ideas how this could be fixed?

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 6:10 am
by Rocco
ok, two more ideas;

1.
change in your dosbox-base.conf
oplemu=default
to
oplemu=compat

2.
check what's in the file DIG.INI
does it say:

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; ;Miles Design Audio Interface Library V3.02 of 18-Jan-95 ; DEVICE Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 or AWE32 DRIVER SB16.DIG IO_ADDR 220h IRQ 7 DMA_8_BIT 1 DMA_16_BIT 5
another version that works on my system is:

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; ;Miles Design Audio Interface Library V3.02 of 18-Jan-95 ; DEVICE Creative Labs Sound Blaster or 100% compatible DRIVER SBLASTER.DIG IO_ADDR 220h IRQ 7 DMA_8_BIT 1 DMA_16_BIT -1
This file is normally generated by SETSOUND.EXE, so you can try & experiment with it. Make sure to run it from DOSBox ofc.

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 10:23 am
by Alex
It might happen that you use different dosboxes for 1.50.7.2 and 1.50.8.

1. What is full path to dosbox executable you use to run 1.50.7.2?
2. What package are you using, Steam, GOG, original CD?

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 12:59 pm
by DesertRose
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Tried those two ideas as well, still only music, no sound.
It might happen that you use different dosboxes for 1.50.7.2 and 1.50.8.

1. What is full path to dosbox executable you use to run 1.50.7.2?
2. What package are you using, Steam, GOG, original CD?
1.) I copy-pasted the dosbox folder for every different version. The paths are:

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D:\Games\MasterOfOrion2\1.50.7.2\DOSBox-0.74 D:\Games\MasterOfOrion2\1.50.8\DOSBox-0.74
2.) Original CD.

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 3:30 pm
by Alex
1.) I copy-pasted the dosbox folder for every different version. The paths are:

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D:\Games\MasterOfOrion2\1.50.7.2\DOSBox-0.74 D:\Games\MasterOfOrion2\1.50.8\DOSBox-0.74
2.) Original CD.
So launcher might be using system-wide dosbox different from dosboxes in D:\Games\MasterOfOrion2. If that's the case reinstall 1.50.8 specifying D:\Games\MasterOfOrion2\1.50.8\DOSBox-0.74\DOSBox.EXE as dosbox executable path, run via launcher and check sound.

If no luck try changing output to surface, I saw opengl lagging on some systems. Not exactly your symptoms but who knows.

If still no luck, try overwriting 1.50.8/150/dosbox-base.conf with dosbox config you used for 1.50.7.2. Identical dosboxes must run with identical configs identically.

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2017 7:12 pm
by DesertRose
Okay, I found the issue.
The file

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SOUND.LBX
was write-protected which caused sounds to not play.



On another note, now that with 1.50 improved the race
Unification [8]; Aquatic [5]; Creative [8]; Large Homeworld [1]
is no longer possible, what custom race do you play when you wanna play a Creative race?

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 7:47 pm
by newnib
Hi, looong time fan of your great work guys!

I've always run ice-m in MOO2 via dosbox on my Mac. Since launcher doesn't run, i've tried to manually edit the .cfg files but failed bigly. Would appreciate if i could be pointed in the right direction. Thank you!

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2017 3:46 am
by Rocco
Okay, I found the issue. [...]
Would never have guessed it. Any clue how the file became read-only, or why it not became read-only on previous installations like 1.50.7? Because, on 1.50.7 or 1.40 or any version it would have had the same result of having no sound fx.
I've always run ice-m in MOO2 via dosbox on my Mac. Since launcher doesn't run, i've tried to manually edit the .cfg files but failed bigly. Would appreciate if i could be pointed in the right direction. Thank you!
The file you need to edit is 150\ENABLE.CFG.
Add to it:
enable ICE-M;
And comment out (prepend #) the other lines with enables.
That should do the trick, assuming you have a correct install.

Re: Fan Patch 1.50.8 with Launcher 1.1.1

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2017 12:16 pm
by DesertRose
Would never have guessed it. Any clue how the file became read-only, or why it not became read-only on previous installations like 1.50.7? Because, on 1.50.7 or 1.40 or any version it would have had the same result of having no sound fx.
I recently reinstalled my OS, so some files on my secondary hard drive got write-protected.
It is indeed very strange that the file in my 1.31 backup folder got write-protected but not the 1.50.7 folder...