In some cases converting is still possible, even with a red screen. If you are met by a red screen the fix could not find all needed files or the game might be incomplete, what is wrong exactly will be indicated. A green screen should appear, indicating all files needed for conversion are found.
#Max payne 2 sound fix windows#
Now browse to your game directory using windows file explorer and double-click the fix's main file: MaxBatch.You will need to use winrar, 7-zip or something similar for this. Extract the fix to your game directory, this is usually located in your steam folder at ' c:\steam\steamapps\common\max payne'.The fix also has a lot of other functions, like checking if the game is complete and converting and managing mods.Īfter you installed the game and downloaded the fix, basically all you have to do is:
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After that is done, the game is repacked again using ras-maker. It looks for and converts the sounds from the various formats found to 8bit unsigned sounds, of a quality simmilar to the original sounds using SOX -an opensource sound conversion tool. The fix's main function -the conversion part- will unpack the game using the tools provided on the max payne cd release, ras-maker (it's spelled without the dash, but somehow the forums won't allow me to say 'rasmaker', so i'll use a dash from now on)and the rl.dll that belongs with it. But since these forums have been closed now, I'm reposting here in the new steam forum and as a steam guide. I posted my fix on the steam user forums (spuf) too, and supported it there. So, I picked up development of the fix again after a long period of silence, with the goal to make it work for everyone, including Steam and Windows7/8/10 users and others. The old fix attempted to fix that, by converting the original sounds to a format that does play right in Vista/Windows7/8/10, but it had some flaws, like leaving the game in an unpacked state, and not being compatible with mods.
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#Max payne 2 sound fix install#
The main issue is that if you install Max Payne (1) on Vista or Windows7/8/10 you will probably notice that most music, intro sound, cut-scene talks and many of the original in game sounds are missing. I'm the orignal author of the -Max Payne(1) Vista Sound Fix-, posted in the 3drealms forums years ago when Vista was released and the Max Payne(1) sound issue first surfaced.