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Hello,

I have successfully installed an old game, I name Warlords III Darklords Rising, on Win 98 OS guest - my host being an XP SP 3. Despite the system running perfectly, and the game launching normally, I have no music once it gets past the opening credits, but only the FX sound. I can spot two problems:

1. inside Volume Control, the MIDI is desactivated, however in System architecture it is said the drivers are perfectly running for the sound controllers - but the music isn't in MIDI format, so I guess this doesn't have much to do with
2. as I try to play the music tracks from the CD, with CD player, it is not recognized as a valid music CD, however this isn't the case on a normal PC using Win 98 CD player.

I've tried some drivers on the net, but they appeared to be older than those already present on the guest: mcicda.drv and mcisqa.drv (don't know if it's the right name; anyway, it is for the MIDI sampler). Maybe I need to install a better virtual soundcard ? or a better virtual cd reader ?
As I've said, the game runs fine. Except that without music, it looses much.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

So sound works, but music doesn't, right ?

VBox cannot emulate Audio CD/mixed CD tracks. Old games have some tracks in data mode and some tracks in Audio CD mode. This is called mixed-mode CD.

Your only option is to find a different CD emulator with Audio CD support and install it *inside* Win98 guest.

-Technologov

I have the exact same problem. The problem seems to be the MIDI. Even when I play a midi-file in a mediaplayer I get no sound at all. Please help!

What kind of CD emulator should I have with XP OS? I tried Deamon Tools,but there's no differences.
Maybe Nero ImageDrive could help?