MPG2 Driver Error.

[heljar2]

When I start the game I get this error message with additional info "Unable to activate MPG2 Device". When I start a new game it just skips the FMV sections and I only get the dialog choices and when I'm finally in control the graphics looks awful. Many objects are missing huge chunks of texture. I'm running Win10 and my graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. The game suggest I should change devices in settings, but there are a lot of choices to choose from. Anyone with similar issues and know of a solution?

[flarefan]

Yes, this is standard; it would be highly unusual for you to boot the game without getting this problem. Here are a couple threads about dealing with it: https://steamcommunity.com/app/302370/discussions/0/1480982338963410344/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/302370/discussions/0/154644787619146566/

That said, I myself was never able to come even close to getting the game working properly. As detailed in my posts in one of the threads, most of the files you have to download to fix the problems have long since fallen prey to link rot and/or operating system updates, and seemingly no one has bothered to come up with replacements since there are no longer many people interested in playing the game. All I can really offer is best of luck.

[Hiei-]

Download DVD Express Player : http://www.metzomagic.com/Help/download/DVDExpress.zip and install it on your system. Then, in-game, choose "mediamatics dvd express" as the MPEG-2 decoder and magic, videos will work (ffdshow is not even required with that so you can disable it when it ask you if you want to load ffdshow).

DVD Expres Player even works on Windows 10.

About the others problems, in "advanced settings (video)", try to use the software mode (instead of the hardware mode).

Also disable "animated textures" might help.

The problem of this game is the version released here is the DVD Version. CD version would have been better (for example, it doesn't need a decoder for videos).

And for "Error code does not incidate an error" problem, you can either :

1) Turn off MIDI sounds (source of the error, but it'll disable background music)

2) Install VirtualMidiSynth (https://coolsoft.altervista.org/download/CoolSoft_VirtualMIDISynth_2.9.1.exe)
Download the required soundfont (http://www.synthfont.com/SoundFonts/FluidR3_GM.sfArk)
Install SFArk which is needed to unzip the .sfArk file (https://web.archive.org/web/20070702210120/http://melodymachine.com/files/sfark_setup.exe)
Open SFArk and go to file > Open, then open the FluidR3_GM.sfArk file you downloaded, then click Start. This will unzip the .sfArk file into a .sf2 file that we need.
Open 'Configure VirtualMidiSynth' and on the Soundfonts tab, press the green + icon. Select the FluidR3_GM.sf2 file.
Launch Tex Murphy: Overseer, go to settings, audio, and then change the MIDI device to "Microsoft MIDI Mapper", make sure that MUTE is not checked.

Then, no more error code and background music will work fine. Don't forget to reboot the game once you changed the MIDI device or music won't play.

[russellroad]

Originally posted by Hiei-:

Download DVD Express Player : http://www.metzomagic.com/Help/download/DVDExpress.zip and install it on your system.

I was having the same problem and this program works like a charm. Thank you so much.

[Hiei-]

Glad to know it helped you :) It works a lot better than ffdshow, which can produce some incompatibilities with some other already installed codecs.

With "DVD Express Player" for the video and "VirtualMidiSynth" for the audio, the game works fine on Windows 7/8/10 :)

[melvin shermen]

yes is happend to me too. i just wonder why.

[melvin shermen]

thank

[Hiei-]

Guide about it : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2130326831

(found a better program than DVD Express, which was incompatible with the program which fix transparent textures).