Music Freeze Hook

[JeremyaFr]

Hello,

I've created a hook (xwa_hook_music) that fixes the music freeze.

It replaces the DirectSound API with the XAudio2 API to play the music.
With this hook, it is no longer needed to set the process affinity mask to a single core.

Feel free to say if you have the music freeze again (even with this hook) or if you no longer encounter the music freeze.

You can download the hook with the XwaHooksSetup tool.

[Rookie_One1]

Thanks Jeremy, you are a programming god!

[Chri360936]

When I run the hooks setup app, I am not getting the new music hook? Any reason for this that you can think of?

[JeremyaFr]

Hello,
You have to delete the "Hooks" directory, as written in the XwaHooksSetup's readme file.

Or extract XwaHooksSetup.zip to a new directory and run XwaHooksSetup.exe

[Chri360936]

Got it. Thanks.

[DarHan]

Huh. I just experienced the music freeze bug despite having installed the hook. It happened after a few minutes of playing (Battle 4, mission 6—more precisely, shortly after the ISD Avenger first started deploying fighters).

[BenKenobi]

Hi.
It happened to me too unfortunately. Just after entering hyperspace on Battle 1 Mission 4.
Need more info? Just let me know.

[Ace Antilles]

Huh. I just experienced the music freeze bug despite having installed the hook. It happened after a few minutes of playing (Battle 4, mission 6—more precisely, shortly after the ISD Avenger first started deploying fighters).

Hi. It happened to me too unfortunately. Just after entering hyperspace on Battle 1 Mission 4.
Need more info? Just let me know.

Just to confirm please: You both have Hook_Music.dll and Xaudio2_9redist.dll in your main XWA folder?

Also in DDraw.cfg that this file has a setting of 0 in this section

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; ProcessAffinityCore = int value
; When set to 0, the process affinity is not changed
; The value indicates the core you want the process to run on
ProcessAffinityCore = 0

[DarHan]

Yup, both files are present (XWA won’t even start if Xaudio2_9redist.dll is missing), and I double-checked the ProcessAffinityCore setting.

[BenKenobi]

Just to confirm please: You both have Hook_Music.dll and Xaudio2_9redist.dll in your main XWA folder?

No, it seems the Xaudio2_9redist.dll was missing, I had no problem launching XWA without it however. Double checked; the ProcessAffinityCore is set to 0

I will check it again and report back.

[Ace Antilles]

Just to confirm please: You both have Hook_Music.dll and Xaudio2_9redist.dll in your main XWA folder?

No, it seems the Xaudio2_9redist.dll was missing, I had no problem launching XWA without it however. Double checked; the ProcessAffinityCore is set to 0

I will check it again and report back.

It should be in your Setup folder that the Hook downloader extracted. If it's not then you don't have the latest updates.

[BenKenobi]

Update: Haven’t had a music crash in over 2 weeks so it is fixed for me.

[JeremyaFr]

Update: Haven’t had a music crash in over 2 weeks so it is fixed for me.

Thanks for the feedback.

[JeremyaFr]

UPDATE

Hello,
I've updated the music hook.

I've fixed a conflict with the effects ddraw dll.

[GABICV]

Hello,

I don't know if I'm the only one but I'm still experiencing music freezes from time to time. It seems to be random. It can happen during tour missions or skirmishes. It also happened once while I was in the flight simulator menu, setting up a skirmish.
Sometimes it freezes after 10 minutes of play, sometimes I can play 1h without issue.

I'm playing on a Steam version with Mega Patch and Update 2.1. I also made sure I have the latest Music Hook.

[JeremyaFr]

UPDATE

Hello,
I've updated the music hook.

I've fixed a bug where the xwa exe is still alive when the game ends and a custom movie was played.