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Troubleshooting / Oh great. FF8's got a rather awkward error with DirectMusic...any ideas?
« on: 2009-07-25 19:18:38 »
OK, so I recently started playing FF8pc again (my fiance finally gave me my pc version discs back after she bought the ps1 version), and now I find out that something's seriously borked:
The .SGT files are not looping properly. At all. Instead of looping where they are supposed to, they are all looping from the start of the song.
So I figured, OK, maybe the loop point itself was changed or erased during whatever edits I made in DirectMusic Producer. Checking the files in DMP indicated that the loop point data is intact -- but the problem seems to have spread beyond FF8, as every time I hit play in the program, it starts from the beginning of the song. Something, somewhere is telling it to ignore the current timestamp/position indicator and start from the beginning. As far as I know, no such option is set in the program.
As someone who has a decent amount of experience using .sgt files and DirectMusic, I declare that I AM STUMPED.
My Specs:
P4 1.5Ghz
512 MB DDR RAM
Win98SE
3Dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Maxi-Sound Fortissimo (Hardware XG-MIDI chip, uses YMF744 chipset)
DirectX 9.0c (with the Nov. 2007 minor update)
Reinstalling DX9 doesn't seem to fix the problem. I'm considering reinstalling an earlier DX version (Probably 8.0/8.1), but I have a feeling that that may not work, as DirectMusic hasn't really gone through that many changes since DX8.
The .SGT files are not looping properly. At all. Instead of looping where they are supposed to, they are all looping from the start of the song.
So I figured, OK, maybe the loop point itself was changed or erased during whatever edits I made in DirectMusic Producer. Checking the files in DMP indicated that the loop point data is intact -- but the problem seems to have spread beyond FF8, as every time I hit play in the program, it starts from the beginning of the song. Something, somewhere is telling it to ignore the current timestamp/position indicator and start from the beginning. As far as I know, no such option is set in the program.
As someone who has a decent amount of experience using .sgt files and DirectMusic, I declare that I AM STUMPED.
My Specs:
P4 1.5Ghz
512 MB DDR RAM
Win98SE
3Dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
Maxi-Sound Fortissimo (Hardware XG-MIDI chip, uses YMF744 chipset)
DirectX 9.0c (with the Nov. 2007 minor update)
Reinstalling DX9 doesn't seem to fix the problem. I'm considering reinstalling an earlier DX version (Probably 8.0/8.1), but I have a feeling that that may not work, as DirectMusic hasn't really gone through that many changes since DX8.