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The music you can hear on the main menu if you wait for a bit eventually had this beautiful melody of bells or chimes or something, don't remember it quite. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with me playing on Windows 7, but that melody's instrument is replaced by a bog standard piano midi, and it doesn't sound right. Anybody knowledgeable about such things? It's one of the things that stands out in my mind for this game.

Thanks :)
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dooksavage:
You might want to run INSTALL.EXE in the ROTH folder and then select the soundcard you had when you played it with the music you described.
Only thing is you have to do it via DOSBox.exe, also you have to make a dummy readme.exe or else INSTALL.EXE will not run.
Could I please have step by step instructions? I'm really not familiar with Dosbox.
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dooksavage: Could I please have step by step instructions? I'm really not familiar with Dosbox.
Sigh...., oh well here goes ;)

- Open explorer and navigate to C:\Program Files\GOG.com\Realms of the Haunting\ROTH folder, or wherever it is you installed this game.

- Right click on an empty space in the explorer window, hover over new then select notepad document and name it readme.txt. You now created the dummy file.

- Now select the DOSBOX folder and double click DOSBox.exe.

- At the command prompt (that's Z:\ for you) type: mount c c:\progra~1\gog.com\realms~1\roth and press enter. (note: if this doesn't work try progra~2)

- Now type c: and press enter, then type install.

- If you are now in the Installation and Setup program, everything went right, congratulations.

- Select Select Sound Device, yes to autodetect sound device, yes for use this device for sound, yes for sound test, no for adjust settings and yes/no for use this device for music.

- Depending on your last choice you are either presented with a music test or a menu with different music devices. Most devices are supported by Dosbox so you have to try them out for yourself. When it asks for a port selection just go for the default one.

- If you have made a selection, exit the setup program and type exit at the prompt.
Post edited September 30, 2012 by Strijkbout
Thanks very much, my friend :)
Did you ever solve this? My midi's have this issue for me regardless of what sound card I pick to play the music.......
My guess is that DOSBox does not actually do MIDI emulation, it passes this duty on to the OS. Which is Windows. Which has terrible MIDI emulationn.
Necro'd!

If it does pass the midi duties along to the OS, you've actually got some good news there. Just have to configured the os to use a different midi instrument set. Anybody who uses midi extensively in Windows should know how to do this. I don't off the top of my head but I could figure it out.
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doctorfrog: My guess is that DOSBox does not actually do MIDI emulation, it passes this duty on to the OS. Which is Windows. Which has terrible MIDI emulationn.
Ever heard of Coolsoft VIrtualMidiSynth? http://coolsoft.altervista.org/en/virtualmidisynth It's especially good for Windows 7/8, because Microsoft stripped out the midi support, and in 8 the only thing left is the MS GS Wave table synth--which is worse than horrible! This program undoes that problem (works great for me in 8.1x64) and allows you to use soundfonts with the midi player output which sound absolutely terrific. I use General Midi support for music and the SB16 emulation for sound effects in the RotH DOS install program (sound device setup), and you setup DOSbox (the default SB16 settings are fine) for MPU401, midi device = win32 (which is what you have after you run the coolsoft program and configure your sound fonts and other options and select the coolsoft synth as the Windows default in place of GS Wave Table), and you're gold! The sound fonts make all the difference conceivable--you can even install more than one sf and alternate between them.

Before getting turned on to this I had been using the GUS emulation as the best Midi default available for 8.1 (but only under DOSbox and only if the game supports the GUS of course)--but in terms of sound quality this blows the GUS emulation away, imo. No comparison.
Post edited December 26, 2013 by waltc