Anybody know how to get CMI working perfectly on windows XP?
It occasionally fast forwards through the cutscenes and the sound skips unendingly. I've tried running it in 98/Me compatibility mode and with sound acceleration all the way down, but it still does it.
Any ideas?
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I recently played the game completely without any glitch using it in Windows XP.
There are quite detailed instructions here:
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=7445
Maybe it could help with the ScummVM recognizing problem.
CMI is one of the few games I don't like playing through SCUMMVM, as they haven't gotten the iMUSE fully functional yet, and the music is one of the game's strong points.
i think my hardware is too new or something
-Use ScummVM.
-I install the game, but Scummvm wont recognize the folder, but it recognize the folders in the CD, so do that. Use the CD route, not the folderon your hardrive.
-That should run the game, but (least in my case) with some type of lag on video and sound, so...
-On the menu of ScummVM with "Curse" selected, go to options. There mark "aspect ratio correction" that should be unmarked by default.
That did it for me.
Sorry if i made little sense, despite my bad english, i had some ammount of wine running through my veins right now.
i'm going to try that launcher next.
Unless you have a really slow computer (like, slower than the requirements for the actual game), There's really no reason why there would be any lags.
Although this is somewhat a good choice for older games, this does not have any affect on CMI, since the game is naturally in 4:3 resolution.
did you make sure to set the sound acceleration back to full before using ScummVM? because i had never heard of that bug.
I also had problems running Curse on xp.
Here's how I fixed it:
download this
http://www.death-web.com/files/imagecfg.zip
Extract it to the curse folder and go to the command prompt.
go to the curse folder and type the following,
imagecfg -a 0x1 COMI.EXE
this will patch the executable file so that it runs on one CPU.
Voila, the game works perfectly.
I prefer to not use scummvm myself. I want to experience the games exactly as they were supposed to be. Not with bugs in music and other things. I mostly use dosbox for the older Lucasarts adventures. Much superior I think.
Have you tried to reduce the sound accerlation? It helped when I had similar problems. Go to Start, select Run, type dxdiag, click sound tab, lower sound accerlation to basic accerlation. Exit dxdiag and run CMI.
PS: After you have finished playing CMI remember to turn the sound accerlation back to maximum.
did you even bother reading what you quoted?
I did. I didn't use compatibility mode or reduce sound accerlation to no accerlation level, like he said he had done, but I used basic level sound accerlation.
This is the winner. The launcher cleared up all of the iMUSE problems of sounds overlapping and graphical anomalies (graphics remaining for items you pick up, things animating behind other objects appear in front)
and then turning down the sound acceleration to basic worked to fix the sped up cutscenes.
thanks all for the help, i hope this thread helps other people too who just want to lurk and not post.
It does.
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Check my reply further up in this thread. That fixed my sound looping problem.
Yeah, that doesn't work on my PC.
Same here. The game runs perfectly in ScummVM on my PC and my Mac.
Games are becoming harder and harder to get right for all machines, though, as different types of components come out quicker and quicker. Look at Empire: Total War for both a lesson against the Jim Ward school of games-releases and about bug-problems. Unless you literally test on tonnes of different rigs before release, a very big game is always gonna cause compatibility problems. Not being an expert myself, i'd be interested if this is just because Vista sucks or if ETW's official palm-off of it being because of the speed of tech advances in home computing is true.
This is why I love TTG. Their biggest (and only that i'm aware of, apart from the unavoidable one of charging non-US customers more for CDs) problem is sound quality, and although they could upgrade the quality for the CDs (which they didn't afaik for S&M season 1 CD) it's hardly anything compared to some utterly unplayable games coming out these days.
If the problem is simply that it needs to run on one CPU, you can use Bind CPU. This app can work with any software that you want to control which CPU is used. Download a copy of the executable and type the appropriate command into the shortcut file for any piece of software you wish to use it with.
I used the alternate launcher which there is a link for a few posts ago for my computer (Vista) After using the launcher there was no fast fowarding in the cut scenes, the only problem i had was the voice going in an endless loop after a short time of playing, all i had to do to fix it was, go into were I had loaded the game find the COMI.EXE file (not the CURSE.EXE file) and set it to windows 95 in compatability mode.
I dont get these problems in ScummVM, I only got them when i tried to play through windows, but i can now play without ScummVM and it plays perfectly.
maybe it has something to do with my dual core proc or videocard or something? either way, problem solved thanks to the alternate launcher
Yeah, launcher doesn't work for everyone. It seems the more new your computer, the more likely launcher doesn't work for you, from my experiences.
The problem is that launcher hasn't been tested thoroughly because it's a fan thing. So bugs can appear or re-appear at any time and the creators can only react when people have problems, and that's only if the creator can be bothered and has enough time.
ScummVM just plain doesn't work past MI1/2 for me
In what way does the alternate launcher/installer not work for you, what problems do you face when using it, and are you using only the launcher or have you used the alternate installer from the same site aswell?
After i used the alternate installer i still had voice loops after a short time of playing, after i went through were i had installed the game and set the COMI.EXE file to compatability mode: windows 95 the voice loops stopped.
I am on vista
For me losing the original menus was too much, so I rather spend some time working to find out solutions to problems which old Win95 or DOS games have under modern systems.
To this date I haven't seen a game which is impossible to run under modern systems and when I don't have any idea what to do Internet is full of solutions, which more tech savvy persons have invented. Usually simple solutions like using just one core, slowing down the processor speed or using emulator helps to solve the issues.
As i've said, the repetitive speech sets in between 1-5mins of the game
I dunno what the 'official' launcher is. ScummVM won't read CoMI, probably because i've got to do something different to with SoMI and SoMI:LR to get it working.
The CMI Launcher doesn't stop the repetitive speech thing.
I reinstalled XP on an old machine and now i'm able to play CoMI on that
P.S. Odds on i'll get brain cancer from the old CRT monitor
Huh, the original menu is there? it's on F1 while the ScummVM menu is bound to F5. There's a funny thing with the text speed to, if i don't want the text to hold up the speech I need the CMI menu to set the speed to 0 and the ScummVM menu to set it to 9