SCI: KQ4: Death Music is Almost Inaudible

[ArthurWalden]

I am using ScummVM version 2.9.0git4942-g420e53e9c8d (daily build).

In King's Quest 4 (SCI version), there seems to be some music that plays when you die (i.e. when the "Roberta Williams says:..." death box appears), but I it is so soft I cannot really hear it. To be clear, the rest of the sound plays normal volume, so the problem is not the volume setting on my system.

I am playing the English GOG version of the game.

I am running the game on Windows 11 Home, version 23H2.

[antoniou79]

What are your audio settings for the game (or the global ones if you are not overriding them)?

[ArthurWalden]

Whoops...it seems I left the music device on default, rather changing it to my VirtualMIDISynth. The music sounds much better now overall.

[antoniou79]

I have noticed that, when the "IBM PCjr emulator" is set for music device, it does sound significantly low, and I am unsure if the volume settings (ScummVM launcher, or GMM, or native in-game menu) affect it at all.

This was tested on ScummVM 2.8.1 and on a recent dev build of ScummVM 2.9.0git.

In comparison, on King's Quest 3 (AGI, GOG version) the music is not low with that device setting and additionally the volume is clearly affected by the (ScummVM GMM) music volume controls.