Music crashing

[andrewlus]

Hi guys I've been having a problem with the FF7 music patch, I installed it fine and the music works perfectly but after a few mins(about 10 to 15) of gameplay the out_wave.dll crashes and stops responding so the music won't play which forces me to find the nearest save point(which as most of you know can sometimes take a long time) and quit with is really annoying. It's impossible to play the game properly like this and I don't want to go back to the original music because the quality sucks, so if anyone has had this problem or is just very computer savey could they please help me.

[Covarr]

Do you have Winamp? If so, grab its out_ds.dll and try using that instead.

[andrewlus]

Do you have Winamp? If so, grab its out_ds.dll and try using that instead.

No I don't have it, do you have a link to it

[nikfrozty]

Do you have Winamp? If so, grab its out_ds.dll and try using that instead.

No I don't have it, do you have a link to it

Winamp can easily be found in google. *sigh*
http://www.google.com.ph/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=winamp

[Covarr]

I just remembered, current versions of out_wave and out_ds don't work with FF7Music anyway.

Here's a version that should work:

http://nunzioweb.com/sawgstuff/ssold.html

Scroll down and find out_ds.dll: DirectSound Output 2.2.7, it should be under the Winamp2 Files section.

[andrewlus]

I just remembered, current versions of out_wave and out_ds don't work with FF7Music anyway.

Here's a version that should work:

http://nunzioweb.com/sawgstuff/ssold.html

Scroll down and find out_ds.dll: DirectSound Output 2.2.7, it should be under the Winamp2 Files section.

That fixed the problem completely thank you so much!!!

[Covarr]

No problem. I've updated my tutorial to come with out_ds.dll as a backup for people who are having trouble.

out_wave.dll is still recommended for people who aren't having problems with it, because it's faster.

[andrewlus]

No problem. I've updated my tutorial to come with out_ds.dll as a backup for people who are having trouble.

out_wave.dll is still recommended for people who aren't having problems with it, because it's faster.

Cool, also while I have you, I've been having trouble with my wind.wav. In some parts of the game I'd get an error message saying "cannot read c:\users\blahblahblah\wind.wav etc at the bottom of the page and the wind sound effect wouldn't play which I can live with but when I'm in the dessert prison and I confront the other guy with the gunarm(his name escapes me)  in which I get the same error message but the wind effect is playing for about 30 second and then the game runs extremly slowly. Since you fixed my last problem I hope you can fix this one too.

[Covarr]

This problem has nothing to do with FF7Music, it is actually an issue with Aali's custom graphics driver. Supposedly, using an older version should fix it, but I haven't tested that.

[andrewlus]

This problem has nothing to do with FF7Music, it is actually an issue with Aali's custom graphics driver. Supposedly, using an older version should fix it, but I haven't tested that.

How old of a version do I have to use because I'd hate to f.up my game because I installed a buggy old version

[Covarr]

Can't remember. I wanna say it was 0.6.2b, but I'm not positive. A number of members here probably know.

[andrewlus]

Can't remember. I wanna say it was 0.6.2b, but I'm not positive. A number of members here probably know.

Ok I tried using that version but the game crashed before the start menu so I reinstalled the newest one but now for some reason the direct sound output I used all yesterday and earlier today won't work and gives me this error message when I load my saved file

error setting directsound cooperative level, please shutdown other programs using your sound card

Is this because of me using that version or is it something else

[Covarr]

I don't know. Changing versions of Aali's driver really shouldn't cause that. You could try restarting your computer, that's about all I can think of.

[andrewlus]

I don't know. Changing versions of Aali's driver really shouldn't cause that. You could try restarting your computer, that's about all I can think of.

Nope that didn't work, damn every time I fix one problem another one pops up and I was so happy yesterday when I thought I'd fixed it

[andrewlus]

I don't know. Changing versions of Aali's driver really shouldn't cause that. You could try restarting your computer, that's about all I can think of.

Nope that didn't work, damn every time I fix one problem another one pops up and I was so happy yesterday when I thought I'd fixed it

Ok so I've fixed the wind problem but my out wave still isn't working and I discover that the out_ds.dll: DirectSound Output 2.2.7, never accually worked because I had the # still in place and it was the regular music that was playing so I'm back to square one