Why am I hearing music when the music volume is turned dow..

External Since: Jan 12, 2005 Posts: 131

I've got the music volume turned down to 0, because I don't care to
hear the music that most people include with their maps. But in a lot
of maps I've downloaded, I still hear music. This last one was so
loud, I could barely hear the announcer over it. Do these map makers
take their lessons from spammers?

How can I turn off the music, completely and utterly?

Another thing that's related.

My music folder is currently 1.46 gigs. That's more than half of what
my UT99 (the whole game) folder is. If I don't want to listen to the
music that comes with maps, I shouldn't have to have it taking up
space on my hard drive. But if I don't have the file, I can't play
the map.

Is there a way around this? Have Epic taken this into consideration
for UT2007? Just think how much space that game's going to take.

External Since: Apr 10, 2004 Posts: 673

On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:06:53 -0700, Todd <noone RemoveThis @nowhere.com> wrote:

>I've got the music volume turned down to 0, because I don't care to
>hear the music that most people include with their maps. But in a lot
>of maps I've downloaded, I still hear music. This last one was so
>loud, I could barely hear the announcer over it. Do these map makers
>take their lessons from spammers?
>
>How can I turn off the music, completely and utterly?
>
>Another thing that's related.
>
>My music folder is currently 1.46 gigs. That's more than half of what
>my UT99 (the whole game) folder is. If I don't want to listen to the
>music that comes with maps, I shouldn't have to have it taking up
>space on my hard drive. But if I don't have the file, I can't play
>the map.
>
>Is there a way around this? Have Epic taken this into consideration
>for UT2007? Just think how much space that game's going to take.
>

The music folder on my UT2004 setup is 125MB.

Turning the music volume to 0 is that standard method of eliminating
music. Could be you have some screwed up maps.

Custom (user written) maps are hit and miss in terms of coding
quality. Some are good, some are terrible, and some will hose your
entire setup, forcing you to reload from scratch. Caveat emptor.

If I remember your past posts correctly, you've downloaded and
installed a lot of maps and mutators. Going overboard with loads of
custom maps and mutators is a possible recipe for disaster. At some
point, you might want to consider reloading and keeping only those
maps/mutators that you feel you can't live without. Games can be
fairly fragile things.... straying too far from the stock setup can
often lead to a host of problems.