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[Borodin]

Originally posted by Elward@Jan 17 2006, 08:47 AM
I'm on XP with a Sound Blaster Live! and I have a music issue. When I run Xeen via a shortcut without VDMSound, no music plays, when I run it with VDMS, the music plays but at about half speed, and, with DOSBox, the music plays, but the game is just so slow. What advice have you?

-EE

Go the DOSbox homepage, and check out the command for speeding up the game. See if that works.

one of the best ever.. the whole might and magic series actually. although X was a complete rip-off. how did they dare produce that crap... seems to me to have been the end of the series. a loss to the world of gamers.

I think you mean Might and Magic IX, since there's been no M&M X, yet. After M&M VIII received lackluster if positive reviews, Tripp Hawkins, the CEO of 3DO (who had purchased New World Computing, developers of the M&M series) decided to take the title away from van Caneghem and company, and give it to a group of programmers who had never made a professional game, before. They didn't release on time, so Hawkins (much like Lucasarts with KotoR2, and so many other recent titles) decided to release it, anyway. M&M IX was severely flawed, not only with plenty of bugs and rushed coding, but also at a fundamental level. It felt like there was a lot of glitz and next to no substance. M&M IX was panned, but by then, Hawkins had other worries on his hands. The said thing is that van Caneghem never got back ownership of his property after 3DO collapsed, and the people who are making a new Might and Magic title haven't contacted him. In fact, from interviews, it appears they're just cynically exploting the brand name, to make a title with no real ties to the originally gameplay.