MagicEngine

Foo's yer doo's? · Visitor Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 3

I was having the same problem that many of yourselves were having. When playing games dracula X I found I had problems with sound getting played off the cd (no sound at all apart from game sound affects). I think I found the solution. If you are running specific ide mobo drivers uninstall then and revert back to the default windows ones. I just did that today and all cd games on this emu are now fully working (my ide driver were nforce ones by the way).

Jabberwok · Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 1:55 am Post subject:

This is a dangerous tip : I ask people not to do it as there are many MB chipsets out there, and we will NOT try to diagnose any of the problems resulting such a practice...

People, leave your northbridges & southbridges be...

Besides, try to play a recent windows PC game & you'll see what I mean, DirectX is your friend...

Magic engine's real problem lies between the soundcard & cd-rom : PC engine's & it's games were made to output it's redbook audio the old fashioned way : through a regular audio line, not through a digital one...

Let's all wait for the big one point 0 ok?
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Foo's yer doo's? · Visitor Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 3

Ah but is there a new version of magic engine going to come out to fix this? It's been 2 years since the last one. If they do take one out though a few more options would be usefull (the ability to chose the resolution and fileters to get rid of jaged edges with in the graphics).

Kaminari · Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 2:48 pm Post subject:

Magic Engine 1.0 is due out soon. Haven't you checked the website lately?

Yoshon · Visitor Joined: 15 May 2004 Posts: 1

Interestingly enough, though, I remember getting it when I used to play and fixing it somehow. That was with version 9.7, for the life of me I can't remember what I did though.

elbryan42 · Visitor Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

I'm using the audio cable, not digital. And my MB drivers is the same when I installed Windows. It's an XP problem, not a digital/analog audio problem. If the problem was that then my computer would read the disc as an audio cd compared to a blank disc. The new version of Magic Engine won't fix the problem if it's an OS problem.

Foo's yer doo's? · Visitor Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 3

Jabberwok · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 5:18 pm Post subject:

elbryan42 · Visitor Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

Already tried Hugo. Same problem. I know the problem with mine is NOT about the digital audio. I've been using analog audio cables on all of my drives since my 486. The problem is that XP isn't reading the disc properly.

I came here to hope that someone could help me with my problem. Instead I get quoted the same stupid solution that doesn't work. If the problem was the digital audio instead of the audio cable, the disc would keep reading the track. At the beginning of each stage, the drive light blinks for a second, then goes off. I can only hope that someone with the same problem as me could give me a proper solution.

However I'll try the daemon tools thing when I have time. I'm sorry for the rant, but this is a very frustrating problem. Sad

Kaminari · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 9:14 pm Post subject:

The same stupid solution works for 99% of such cases. Here's another stupid solution for you to try out, hopefully you'll have more luck this time:

Kaminari · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 9:16 pm Post subject:

elbryan42 · Visitor Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

I'm at work, but I'll check my ini when I get home. Thanks everyone for all the help. Sorry if I'm a pain. Neutral

If I do find the solution, I'll be sure to let everyone know for the next unfortunate soul to encounter this problem.

Another thing occcured to me. I think it also might have to do with whcih release of XP you have, or certain motherboards with certain drivers. Anything can cause odd problems. Could explain why some people with XP have problems and some don't.

Jabberwok · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 9:48 pm Post subject:

Jabberwok · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 10:18 pm Post subject:

elbryan42 · Visitor Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

In any case, once all possible solutions to cd problems are found, a topic should be made for people to read first before they have to ask.

I realize lots of people, if not most people weren't around in the DOS days. If the cd sound doesn't work, they don't automatically check that cd audio cable (like I did). It's understandable. If only computers were simple like back in the days of the x86 computers.