Can't Play Music, Crashes

[Gallows]

I've installed Morrowind three times now, and despite verifying everything and even finding the files itself IN THE FOLDER, the game says it can't play the music for the intro sequence and crashes to Windows.

Is there any way to fix this, or is this another case of "Sorry, dickwipe, you've got a ♥♥♥♥ game you can never play again, go ♥♥♥♥ off back to GoG if you want to play a game you own?"

[Vespertine]

Maybe you need to find replacement files for it?

[meheezen]

this is a known issue, Morrowind needs 32-bit audio codecs to play its mp3 files, most modern systems only use 64-bit codecs.
i'm not sure which solution fixed this issue, but you can try:
1- install a 32-bit audio codec (i recommend CCCP,)
2- install directx redist, which for some strange reason is not bundled with the Steam version of this game. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

[Gilgamesh]

I fixed this by installing the K-light codec pack.

[Cap'n Cook]

Originally posted by meheezen:

this is a known issue, Morrowind needs 32-bit audio codecs to play its mp3 files, most modern systems only use 64-bit codecs.
i'm not sure which solution fixed this issue, but you can try:
1- install a 32-bit audio codec (i recommend CCCP,)
2- install directx redist, which for some strange reason is not bundled with the Steam version of this game. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

What do I do with those 2 programs once they're installed?

[meheezen]

Originally posted by Nicolas Cage:

What do I do with those 2 programs once they're installed?

try running the game?

i mean, if your issue is that Morrowind wont get past the "home" screen due to a crash and complaint about not being able to play mp3 files, then you need a 32-bit mp3 codec, its that simple.

ottherwise just post the exat error you are receiving and we'll look further into it

[Cap'n Cook]

Originally posted by meheezen:

Originally posted by Nicolas Cage:

What do I do with those 2 programs once they're installed?

try running the game?

i mean, if your issue is that Morrowind wont get past the "home" screen due to a crash and complaint about not being able to play mp3 files, then you need a 32-bit mp3 codec, its that simple.

ottherwise just post the exat error you are receiving and we'll look further into it

Sorry, I should have elaborated. I came from a different thread. When I start morrowind I get the

"Music Error: Can not play file Data Files/Music/Special/morrowind title.mp3"

I've installed both programs, and I still get that error message when starting morrowind. I've also tried the K-lite Codec program, reinstalling Morrowind, and multiple times I've tried verifying the game files.

EDIT: Nevermind, I realized that I didn't extract the DirectX files into Morrowind's folder correctly, It works just fine now. Thank you very much!

[meheezen]

^glad to hear it worked out for you

[T.I.C.H.M.A.]

Originally posted by Nicolas Cage:

EDIT: Nevermind, I realized that I didn't extract the DirectX files into Morrowind's folder correctly, It works just fine now. Thank you very much!

Sorry, but could you explain how to extract those files correctly? Because either me did the same mistake or it didn't help for me.

[Cap'n Cook]

Originally posted by Кот Гэндальфа:

Originally posted by Nicolas Cage:

EDIT: Nevermind, I realized that I didn't extract the DirectX files into Morrowind's folder correctly, It works just fine now. Thank you very much!

Sorry, but could you explain how to extract those files correctly? Because either me did the same mistake or it didn't help for me.

What I did was install the DirectX files into their own folder and just named it DirectX. I then put that folder into the Morrowind folder in Steamapps/common. Thats what worked for me.