The Music doesn't work

[Carib FMJ]

Okay for some odd reason the theme music at the beginning works as well as the other sound effects, like birds in the background, gun fire etc and speech. But I don't get any background music.

Any reason why?

 

[Kyuu]

I'm actually having this same problem with my game now. Rather irritating, as I love the ambient music.

 

[WraithUV]

Erm, a little more info?

Like, one assumes you mean FO2, but assumptions are generally bad, so being specific helps.

What version / patches / mods have you got in there?

Off the top, without any more to go on, the only things I could suggest would be to check the music slider in the options panel, and if that's not it, see what the config file lists in the [sound] section for music paths.

Should be along the lines of:
music_path1=X:\<Install>\Fallout2\data\sound\music\
music_path2=X:\data\sound\music\

(Where X is the drive and <Install> is probably something like "Program Files", but could be anything if you installed it somewhere else.)

That's all I can think of at the moment, unless you've got some fruity proprietary POS sound card and/or out of date drivers and it's just your system being bitchy, which is of course, always possible too.

-Wraith

 

[Silencer]

You guys have been around long enough to know that you ought to read the stikies.

So go.

 

[Kyuu]

I'll admit I didn't check the stickies, but I had looked at them some time ago and didn't recall there being anything about background music not playing. Looking at the Troubleshooting FAQ sticky again, I still don't see anything about it.

Yes, it's Fallout 2. Playing with Killap's unofficial patch v1.02.21, otherwise no mods. Checking the sliders was the first thing I did, not the problem.

For the music paths, it just lists \sound\music under both music_path1 and music_path2. Should it have the entire path (e.g., for mine, it'd be e:\programs\fallout2\sound\music\)?

Edit: Whoa, okay. Just did something that should've been obvious, and checked the music folder. It's empty. What's up with that? I did a fresh install and only installed Killap's patch. Perhaps his installer deletes the music files by mistake? I'm fairly certain it's not supposed to be empty...

 

[Finesse]

Happens to me lots for some weird reason, just manually copy the music off the disc and put it in the fallout2\data\sound\music folder.

 

[fallout ranger]

I have this weird thing where instead of music being in Fallout 2\data\sound (where you'd think it'd be) it's in Fallout 2\sound. And when I delete/move files from the Fallout 2 data\sound folder nothing happens, not the case with the other folder.

And if I *do* delete the other one, there is no music in-game and another *empty* folder will spawn