A WORD OF WARNING for Windows 10 users.
If you can't login anymore after playing around with this "BASSMIDI driver".
I was curious. Ran it once, selected the sound font. Didn't hear any music in game.
I became annoyed and figured I didn't want to spend time on this customization of the game for now, so I tried running the program again.
Only now, the "Configure BASSMIDI Driver" app would NOT start anymore. So I was unable to reset the midi driver.
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I realised this was likely the cause that I couldn't run the game anymore because the file
Logs/dbg.txt stopped at
Sound Manager loaded 2165 filenames from soundassets.txt.
... and there was no "WorldAuthenticate" to be seen.
I figured that since that's what I was messing with recently, it was probably the cause.
Even though I uninstalled BASSMIDI driver, it let an invalid driver in the REGISTRY!
So now you're having fun running REGEDIT and editing the registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CoolSoft VirtualMIDISynth (only on 64bit systems)
Look for the "midi" keys and replace the "bassmididrv" entries with the default "wdmaud.drv".
Finally, the game logs into character screen.
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TLDR
- I used the BASSMIDI exe linked on
Welgrim's page .. It ran once, but would not run again, therefore preventing me from resetting the MIDI device.
- Having uninstalled BASSMIDI ... the game now freezes on login as it can not find the now missing midi driver
- Had to manually clean the registry keys to get game to run again.