firebug
04-04-2003, 02:21 PM
i'm having some serious problems here. im going to try to lay out exactly whats going on, and *hopefully* someone can help me out so i can once again use this wonderful program. the OS im running is windows ME.
first issue: this happened awhile ago, and i thought i had the problem licked, but i guess not. i had no midi support at all. i had sfx but no music (in either the windows version or the DOS). agsetup wasn't working correctly (freezing my comp and forcing me to reboot), so what i did to correct the problem (i THOUGHT) was this: i deleted all the ag.cfg files (one in my ZCbetaDOS folder, and one in my ZCbetaWIN folder) and ran zquest-w. i played the lost woods (but got no music) and shut down zquest. i now had a new ag.cfg file. i copied it and put it in my ZCbetaDOS folder. now, here's my problems with Zquest & ZCDOS: it won't start right off the bat. it'll start loading up, but before it's finished, it freezes. what i did was press ctrl+alt+dlt, and got the close program window. strangely, it wasn't Zquest or ZC that wasn't responding, it was msgloop (whatever THAT is). so i shut it down, and zquest magically started up. i played some midis, and it seemed to work just fine! in fact, it worked great.. for awhile. however, i still couldn't play music through the windows version. :shrug: so what i started doing was this: building in windows (which doesn't freeze my comp when starting up, and runs much more smoothly) and playing in DOS (so i could have music) however, last night before i went to work, all of that changed. i ran zquest/ZCDOS both about 12 times, each time with the same result: my comp would freeze up so completely i had to coldboot it... over and over again. at first i thought my player had been corrupted somehow, so i deleted all the files (except the saved games and .qst files) and DL them again. i did the same thing i did before (to fix the sound problem), but it still would freeze my comp. then i deleted all the windows files, and reDL them, but with the same results. now, i don't know what to do. if i could only make the windows version play the goddamn midis, it would be all a-ok. but i don't see how it isn't! the ag.cfg file worked just fine for the DOS version (at least, until my computer decided it wouldn't run it at all), and it's the same file!!
i'm sick of the DOS version.. it runs extremely choppy and forces me to turn off the 'msgloop' in order for it to play at all (i've found that i have to reboot the comp after i close zquest or ZC for me to run any other programs. im figuring this is because of whatever 'msgloop' does). i love the windows version except for the fact that it refuses to play midis. can someone... anyone.. (people, i want multiple suggestions here,) post exactly what they have done in order to make the midis play in windows? am i missing something here? (halfway through this post i deleted all my DOS files, im done with it. if i can't get midis to play, i guess my quest will just have to go without.) thanks for listening to my ranting. im just so FRUSTRATED at the moment. *sigh*
first issue: this happened awhile ago, and i thought i had the problem licked, but i guess not. i had no midi support at all. i had sfx but no music (in either the windows version or the DOS). agsetup wasn't working correctly (freezing my comp and forcing me to reboot), so what i did to correct the problem (i THOUGHT) was this: i deleted all the ag.cfg files (one in my ZCbetaDOS folder, and one in my ZCbetaWIN folder) and ran zquest-w. i played the lost woods (but got no music) and shut down zquest. i now had a new ag.cfg file. i copied it and put it in my ZCbetaDOS folder. now, here's my problems with Zquest & ZCDOS: it won't start right off the bat. it'll start loading up, but before it's finished, it freezes. what i did was press ctrl+alt+dlt, and got the close program window. strangely, it wasn't Zquest or ZC that wasn't responding, it was msgloop (whatever THAT is). so i shut it down, and zquest magically started up. i played some midis, and it seemed to work just fine! in fact, it worked great.. for awhile. however, i still couldn't play music through the windows version. :shrug: so what i started doing was this: building in windows (which doesn't freeze my comp when starting up, and runs much more smoothly) and playing in DOS (so i could have music) however, last night before i went to work, all of that changed. i ran zquest/ZCDOS both about 12 times, each time with the same result: my comp would freeze up so completely i had to coldboot it... over and over again. at first i thought my player had been corrupted somehow, so i deleted all the files (except the saved games and .qst files) and DL them again. i did the same thing i did before (to fix the sound problem), but it still would freeze my comp. then i deleted all the windows files, and reDL them, but with the same results. now, i don't know what to do. if i could only make the windows version play the goddamn midis, it would be all a-ok. but i don't see how it isn't! the ag.cfg file worked just fine for the DOS version (at least, until my computer decided it wouldn't run it at all), and it's the same file!!
i'm sick of the DOS version.. it runs extremely choppy and forces me to turn off the 'msgloop' in order for it to play at all (i've found that i have to reboot the comp after i close zquest or ZC for me to run any other programs. im figuring this is because of whatever 'msgloop' does). i love the windows version except for the fact that it refuses to play midis. can someone... anyone.. (people, i want multiple suggestions here,) post exactly what they have done in order to make the midis play in windows? am i missing something here? (halfway through this post i deleted all my DOS files, im done with it. if i can't get midis to play, i guess my quest will just have to go without.) thanks for listening to my ranting. im just so FRUSTRATED at the moment. *sigh*