Music From Descent

Post » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:57 am

I'm listening to it now, cold_reality.mp3. Are the orginal games ever going to work with XP? If they ever make new game to work with XP I'll Buy!!! Does anyone remember Shattered Steel, Whiplash. They have to many old games that could and would be greta to play on XP. How do you get the original music to work with d2x-rebirth-gl.exe? The new music doesn't do the game justice.
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Hot
 
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Post » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:04 pm

The CD music should work with rebirth. Check your ini file. If I recall the redbook audio is disabled by default. I think there's like a semicolon in front of that line. Get rid of that and it should work. I don't have that installed at the moment so that's just what I remember.
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Post » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:47 am

I know you said you don't have it installed. But would you have more info on the right file to change
here are the files

System Options:

;-fps Enable FPS indicator by default
;-nonicefps Don't free CPU-cycles
;-maxfps Set maximum framerate (1-80)
;-hogdir set shared data directory to
;-nohogdir don't try to use shared data directory
;-use_players_dir put player files and saved games in

Players subdirectory
;-lowmem Lowers animation detail for better

performance with low memory
;-legacyhomers Activate original homing missiles (FPS

and physics dependent)
;-pilot Select this pilot automatically
;-autodemo Start in demo mode
;-window Run the game in a window
;-nomovies Don't play movies
;-noredundancy Do not send messages when picking up

redundant items

Controls:

;-nomouse Deactivate mouse
;-nojoystick Deactivate joystick
;-mouselook Activate mouselook. Works in

singleplayer only
;-grabmouse Keeps the mouse from wandering out of

the window

Sound:

;-nosound Disables sound output
;-nomusic Disables music output
;-sound11k Use 11KHz sounds
;-nosdlmixer Disable Sound output via SDL_mixer
;-music_ext Play music files with extension

(i.e. mp3, ogg)

Graphics:

;-lowresfont Force to use LowRes fonts
;-lowresgraphics Force to use LowRes graphics
;-lowresmovies Play low resolution movies if

available (for slow machines)
;-subtitles Turn on movie subtitles
;-gl_fixedfont Do not scale fonts to current

resolution
;-gl_fontfixwidth Scale fonts with fixed width for

widescreen resolutions

Multiplayer:

;-mprofile Enable multiplayer game profiles
;-norankings Disable multiplayer ranking system
;-playermessages View only messages from other players

in multi - overrides -noredundancy
;-ipxnetwork Use IPX network number
;-ip_baseport Use

as offset from normal port
;-ip_relay Relay players with closed port over

host (increases traffic and lag)

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Darlene DIllow
 
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Post » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:55 am

I have to ini files in the fold? here is the other one

;skip CD ROM check
-nocdrom
;use trilinear filtering and mipmaps
-render_quality 3
;display multiplayer game messages from other players
-playermessages
;suppress duplicate HUD messages
-noredundancy
;don't playback cut scenes movies, but allow robot movies
-nomovies 1
;use bitmap reticle
-gl_reticle 0
;use short multiplayer game data packets (not recommended for high bandwidth connections)
;-shortpackets
;send 10 updates per second in multiplayer games
-pps 10
;add your default player name here to make D2X-XL load it at program start
-player default
;use the following screen resolution at program start (will be overridden by player profile)
;-640x480
;set the following value to 0 to enable a backwards compatible camera rendering method
-render2texture 1
;set the following value to 0 to enable the original menu style
-menustyle 1
;set the following value to 1 to enable faster rendering of new style menus
-fastmenus 1
;set the following value to 1 to enable sound rendering via SDL_mixer (enables midi playback on non-Windows OS-s)
-sdl_mixer 1
;set the following value to 0 to enable original Descent 2 math data handling
-mathformat 2
;set the following value to 0 to use Descent 2 sounds in Descent 1 levels
-use_d1sounds 1
;specify the name of a custom menu background to use here
-altbg_name d2x-xl-wp-3-1500x1125.tga
;specify the brightness of the custom menu background here (0.0 < brightness <= 1.0)
-altbg_brightness 0.75
;specify the transparency of the custom menu background here (0.0 < alpha <= 1.0; -1.0 to keep what's set in the image)
-altbg_alpha -1.0
;tell whether to convert the custom menu background to a grayscale image
-altbg_grayscale 0
;let OpenGL handle rendering of layered textures
-gl_alttexmerge 1
;enable usage of hires textures if present
-hires_textures 1
;enable caching of resized hires textures on disk
-cache_textures 1
;enable usage of hires models if present
-hires_models 1
;set model texture size
-model_quality 2
;use 44 khz, 16 bit hires sounds
-hires_sound 0
;increase render speed of smoke effects
-vertex_arrays 0
;increase render speed of smoke effects even more (at the cost of graphics quality)
-point_sprites 0
;enable use of lightmaps
-enable_lightmaps 0
;enable display of progress bars during longer lasting loading or computing operations
-progress_bars 1
;enable real-time OpenGL lighting emulation
-gl_lighting 0
;enable usage of shadow proof robot and ship models
-fix_models 1
;use the shadow proof models for regular rendering, too
-alt_models 1
;Use shadows from low res models for hires models
-lores_shadows 1
;enable real time shadowing
-enable_shadows 1
;enable multithreading to speed up rendering
-multithreaded 0
;enable the German localization
;-altlanguage 1
;-text descent.tex.ger
;specify user songs for intro, briefings, credits and levels
;-introsong
;-briefingsong
;-creditsong
;-playlist
;make d2x-xl print diagnostic messages to d2x.log
;-printlog
;freeze robots
;-nobotai
-enable_freecam 1
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Post » Thu Mar 05, 2009 9:38 am

here anothere one


System Options:

;-fps Enable FPS indicator by default
;-maxfps Set maximum framerate (1-80)
;-nonicefps Disable CPU cycle freeing. Higher CPU load, but game may be smoother
;-hogdir set shared data directory to
;-nohogdir don't try to use shared data directory
;-userdir set user dir to instead of $HOME/.d2x-rebirth
;-macdata Read (and, for editor, write) mac data files (swap colors)
;-lowmem Lowers animation detail for better performance with low memory
;-legacyhomers Activate original homing missiles (FPS and physics dependent)

Controls:

;-NoJoystick Disables joystick support
;-mouselook Activate mouselook. Works in singleplayer only
;-grabmouse Keeps the mouse from wandering out of the window

Sound:

;-Volume Sets sound volume to v, where v is between 0 and 100
;-NoSound Disables sound drivers
;-NoMusic Disables music; sound effects remain enabled
;-DisableSound Completely disable sound system (also disables movies)
;-Sound11K Use 11KHz sounds
;-nomixer Don't crank music volume
;-redbook Enable redbook audio

Graphics:

;-menux Set menu-resolution to by instead of game-resolution
;-aspectx use specified aspect
;-hud Set hud mode. 0=normal 1-3=new
;-persistentdebris Enable persistent debris
;-window Run the game in a window
;-lowresmovies Play low resolution movies if available (for slow machines)
;-subtitles Turn on movie subtitles (English-only)
;-rearviewtime t Time holding rearview key to use toggle mode (default 0.0625 seconds)

OpenGL:

;-gl_simple Set gl texture filters to gl_nearest for "original" look. (default)
;-gl_mipmap Set gl texture filters to "standard" options for mipmapping
;-gl_trilinear Set gl texture filters to trilinear mipmapping
;-gl_transparency Enable transparency effects
;-gl_reticle Use OGL reticle 0=never 1=above 320x* 2=always
;-gl_scissor_ok Set glScissor. 0=off 1=on (default)
;-gl_voodoo Force fullscreen mode only
;-fixedfont Do not scale fonts to current resolution

Quickstart:

;-ini Option file (alternate to command line), defaults to d2x.ini
;-noscreens Skip briefing screens
;-pilot Select this pilot automatically
;-autodemo Start in demo mode

Multiplayer:

;-norankings Disable multiplayer ranking system
;-noredundancy Do not send messages when picking up redundant items in multi
;-packets Specifies the number of packets per second

;-ipxnetwork Use IPX network number
;-kali Use Kali for networking
;-udp Specify options for udp/ip:
; @ Shift udp port base offset
; = Broadcast both local and to HOST_LIST
; + Broadcast only to HOST_LIST
; HOSTS can be any IP or hostname
; HOSTS can also be in the form of
:
; Separate multiple HOSTS with a ,
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Post » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:24 pm

i've taken out all d2x.ini files out of the game and new music still playes?
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Post » Thu Mar 05, 2009 12:22 pm

Okay looked it up. You need to have a line that reads -redbook in your d2x.ini file. That should do it.

If you still have problems might want to ask over the rebirth forums.

http://www.dxx-rebirth.com/smf/index.php#2
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Post » Thu Mar 05, 2009 3:01 am

thanks for the help. I'll post if it works
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Post » Thu Mar 05, 2009 10:48 am

I got it to work thanks
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