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Is it possible...

November 12th 2005, 05:57 AM
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Christiaan
Bard They/Them Netherlands
Lazy bum 
to reduce loading times to load a midi in Dink in Windows XP? I know there's no fix for this yet, but to reduce it somehow would be super. It would especially be cool when you guys fix it in Dink 1.08
November 12th 2005, 11:40 AM
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DaVince
Peasant He/Him Netherlands
Olde Time Dinkere 
Get a sound card with MIDI on-board. Most standard newer video card use software MIDI, they load MIDI instruments from the instrument file GM.dls instead of from a chip on the sound card.

Other than that, I don't really know a fix. Maybe find a different dls file on the internet which can replace the original MIDI GM.dls and is smaller than the original GM.dls... That would certainly work faster.
November 12th 2005, 03:41 PM
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redink1
King He/Him United States bloop
A mother ducking wizard 
I looked into that a couple months ago, and concluded that it would not be a simple fix, so I decided not to pursue it.
January 11th 2006, 09:47 AM
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John Hagen
Ghost They/Them
 
yeah what's up with that... hey what about ogg vorbis?
January 11th 2006, 02:20 PM
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I know this is off topic but who are you John Hagen and why dont you just join instead of always being ghost?
January 11th 2006, 11:22 PM
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ok this is my new account. No I had (or thought i had) an account way back when. Of course, over the course of time i forgot my pass. And i changed isps. In short, i am John Hagen. Happy now?