HGL
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Old Dosbox Game, Sound but no Music
Successfully installed Quest for Glory from Gog, and it runs as expected except there's no music so it's eerily quiet 🫠 The sound effects work in game, so it's not all sound. It's not the end of the world, but it's a little too quiet.
I've read the FAQs, and it's obviously not one of the modern games. I've run the command
flatpak update && flatpak install --reinstall com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl, restarted heroic and with the same results. Proton is at latest. Quick glance through logs and it might be something about not finding the midi driver? 🤷♂️9 Replies
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extended-yellowOP•3mo ago
Curious, I attached a log file when I first posted 🤔
extended-yellowOP•3mo ago
It fails to upload and create a url, so I attached this log file when I created it, but I guess it didn't go through?
rival-black•2mo ago
Okay, this is a dosbox issue.
Go to the games settings, and click on "run exe on prefix". From there select the Dosbox.exe. it should open a really old command line.
there, type the following commands
mount c "c:\gog games" make sure to keep the quotes since the GOG folder has spaces.
c:
cd and press the TAB key to autofill it, then enter
install.exe
There, you will meet the games setup. Press enter, and under MUSIC, set it to SOUNDBLASTER, and save the configuration. Once it says "installation complete", you can close it and go back to the game.
If there is something you don't understand, let me know 🙂extended-yellowOP•2mo ago
Thanks for your reply! I got as far as opening the really old dos prompt, typed
mount c "c:\gog games" and hit enter, but then it said Directory c:\gog games doesn't exist.
If it helps, after clicking run exe on prefix, it takes me to the Quest for Glory (VGA) folder, which does have the install.exe file in it, but I have open the folder DOSBOX to run DOSBox.exe. It's been a million years since I've had to do anything in DOS, so I'm not sure if that mapping matters.rival-black•2mo ago
That's odd. I guess you could simply run it as
mount c c:\ and see if the folder appears when you do dir?extended-yellowOP•2mo ago
That does mount, though with a big red warning saying it's a bad idea, but it does let me. No Gog Games folder though when I do dir.
- OPENXR
- PROGRA~1
- PROGRA~2
- PROGRA~3
- PROTON~1
- USERS
- VRCLIENT
- WINDOWS
Okay, I found that in my desktop file tree. It's mappying c: to
~/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/default/Quest for Glory (includes VGA Remake)/drive_c which I think is the wine prefix folder. That's different from where the game files got installed at ~/Games/Heroic/Quest for Glory (VGA)rival-black•2mo ago
Yeah, you should probably move it inside your prefix for simplicity, at least for cases like this
extended-yellowOP•2mo ago
I didn't intentionally set them to be different, it's just what it defaulted to when I installed the flatpak. If I change the defaults will that automatically move the files, or will I have to do that manually?
And you're saying I should move the Installation Path inside the Wine Prefixes folder? For all of them or just this one?
I tried moving the installation files to the same place as the wine prefix, but because it wasn't inside
drive_c the game played, the dosbox.exe command couldn't find the install.exe file. I tried moving it into the drive_c folder, but then it failed to launch altogether.