FF8Config.exe cannot find MIDI device

[Cloudster]

Urgh, ff8config.exe is convinced that there's no MIDI device in my system. I pops up the 'Unable to locate MIDI device... FFVIII requrires a Windows95-compliant MIDI device'. The same setup works flawlessly with FFVII. FFVIII has been patched to 1.2 non-nvidia and used with FF8launcher. What's wrong? My FF8 is the square and not the eidos version.

[Goku7]

Sounds like you need to reinstall DirectX.   FF8 uses a software midi device called the "Microsoft Synthesizer" by default, and that gets installed with the DirectMusic portion of DirectX, so it should be there regardless of whatever sound card you use.  The fact that FF8 can't find it makes me think your DirectX is seriously borked.

If it still can't find it after reinstalling DX, try reinstalling your sound drivers next.