SE4 works much faster when there is some CD in

[Fuerte]

Is this a bug? I had a Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells 3 in CD drive, and SE4 plays it... and works much faster than before.

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[geoschmo]

Some have posted before that the game seems to drag a little if you don't have a CD in. It's like it gets hung looking for the music or something.

You can turn off the music in your settings.txt file. That should speed things up.

Geo

[Dravis]

Turn off CD music in the options menu and then restart SE4 (or your computer if necessary).

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[Saxon]

Hang on! You are saying that Tubular Bells makes the game play faster? That is odd.

When I put in a different CD, it would change tracks in the middle of the song, as if the program know to play each track on the SE4 CD for a certain time. However, it seemed slower and slowest of all with no CD. Perhaps I need to get some Mike Oldfeild.

[Fuerte]

I now have the CD music option off. Still it was kind of funny and appropriate, it played track 1 when playing and hosting, and I believe track 2 when reviewing a battle. Both tracks suited to the game very well.

[capnq]

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When I put in a different CD, it would change tracks in the middle of the song, as if the program know to play each track on the SE4 CD for a certain time.

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I didn't know this until someone mentioned it in another thread, but there is a section of settings.txt that lets you program which tracks are played as background music and combat music.

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human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"