Should I be hearing music?

[rwprice]

I have both MGE and ToT, and neither of these play any background music while I'm playing. The event sounds work properly, as does the music when talking to an emissary and the intro music. But during the actual game, no music plays. If I click on "Pick Music" from the menu, I get an error message telling me that I need to have a Civ2 CD in the drive, which of course I already do.

Does anyone know what's going on here? Thanks for the help.

[rah]

Do you have two CD drives?
I have two, and had the same problem, I just had to move the CD to the other drive.
Even though the game worked with the cd in the drive that it was in.

RAH

[Lefty Scaevola]

1. are you using a cd, or a crack to play cd less. The music is on the cd and not transfered to the hard disk even with a full install.

2. swich drive as indicated by the post above

3. If on windowsME of windows2k update your indeo sound driver.

[rwprice]

Yes, I do have two CD drives, one regular CD and one CD-RW. I'll try playing it with the CD in the CD-RW drive. Thanks for the tip.

[rah]

Yes, that is the exact config I have, and once I moved it, it was fine.

RAH

[rwprice]

When I moved MGE to the CDRW, I was able to get the Pick Music menu, but it didn't actually start any music playing (I suppose that's progress). However, ToT didn't behave any differently in the CDRW drive. So, I guess I still don't have a solution. Thanks for the ideas.

[sboog]

rwprice, do you have Windows ME? I got a new laptop a few weeks ago with WinME, and sometimes I get the music, and sometimes I don't. And as with you, I always get the game sounds and the introductory music.

On my desktop with Win98 I do not a have a problem.

On the laptop, if I reboot and stick the CD in fresh again, I usually get the music, but I hold my breath until I hear it...

sboog

[Smash]

I have no solution but what happened to me when installing was the cd player volume defaulted to "zero" for some reason.I brought up the player and manually raised the volume and that was the end of that problem for me.

[AustralianJeremy]

Well, if MGE and TOT both use CD music (I should know, since I have TOT, but it annoyed me so much that I uninstalled it), then the question is do CDs play normally in the drive you're using? I think it's called Redbook Audio, but I might be wrong.

Maybe the volume for CDs is way down (that's where the music is). If you double click on volume control you can check. Is the little cable from your CD drive connected to your soundcard?

[rwprice]

Jeremy,
Thanks for the ideas. Unfortunately, I am able to play audio CDs, but still no music from Civ2. Oh well, at least I don't know what I'm missing!

[AustralianJeremy]

Originally posted by rwprice
Jeremy,
Thanks for the ideas. Unfortunately, I am able to play audio CDs, but still no music from Civ2. Oh well, at least I don't know what I'm missing!

I don't think you're missing much. Most of the music in Civ2 gets very old, very quickly.

Still, I'm surprised* that it's behaving like that if CD audio works in the drive you're using for the game. Is it the drive you installed it from?

*not really. I've been using MS OSes for far too long to be surprised by _anything_

[crashmon28]

Originally posted by rwprice
Jeremy,
Thanks for the ideas. Unfortunately, I am able to play audio CDs, but still no music from Civ2. Oh well, at least I don't know what I'm missing!

Jermey I have exactly the same problem as you. I have a CD R/W and a DVD, however I get no music from any games from the CD(not just TOT and MG), Audio CD's work fine from both players, and the DVD's play with no issue. I have a dual boot PC with both 98 and 2000, and the problem is the same on both OS's.

Its not the sound card, so I think it may be due to the fact I have a 32 speed CD player.

I tend to play audio CD's when I play anyway so its no great loss, however if you fix this let me know.

[Lefty Scaevola]

I have a DVD for "D" and a CD-RW for "E" and I get game music just fine (I use D). the OS is winMill. It did need a recent version of the indeo drviers.

[Ecthy]

I have FW, and it doesn't recognize the FW CD nor the CiC CD nor the original CD... it does recognize the MGE CD as a music CD, but not as a CIV2 CD....

[crashmon28]

Duh .....

Fixed my problem....

I had the default CDROM drive for music (in Multimedia in the control panel) set to my E drive (CD R/W) instead of the DVD drive (F), so no matter which drive I played the CD in, the music would always try to come out of the E drive, and my sound card is connected to the F drive.....

Changed my default CD Drive to music, an lo and behold it plays fine on all my games....

Maybe this is you problem..