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High quality music for Fallout 1 and 2.
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Standard Fallout 1/2 music is 22 kHz .acm
. In this repo you can find the following alternatives:
- High quality: 44.1 kHz
.acm
. ~350Mb. (Already included into Restoration Project). - Lossless: highest quality there is. Lossess. Wav version is uncompressed, ~1Gb. WavPack and Flac are ~0.5Gb, but require corresponding codecs.
Installation
Sfall
Sfall is required for any HQ/Lossless option.
- You need sfall (
ddraw.dll
) version 4.2.9+. Download here. If you use UPU or RPU version 19+, you already have it. - In
fallout2.cfg
, find and set the following:[sound] music_path1=data\sound\music\
HQ
- Download
hq
package from the latest release page. - Extract files into
data\sound\music
.
Lossless
Same as HQ, but download corresponding lossless package instead.
Also, in ddraw.ini
, find and set the following:
[Sound]
AllowDShowSound=2
- For Wav, no additional configuration required.
- For WavPack, you will need to install WavPack DirectShow Filter.
- For Flac, you will need flac codecs.
Fallout 1
You can't use HQ/Lossless in Fallout 1 directly. But you can use it in Fallout1in2. The procedure is the same.
Linux
- Make sure to install
gstreamer-plugins-good
, with architecture matchingWINEARCH
. - For WavPack/Flac, also install corresponding packages.