[HELP] Music mods installed but not working

[liam92]

I'm one of the people who has to put mods in the Documents/egosoft/x4/(numbered folder)/extensions for it to work. Last night I tried installing a music mod ('Traitor flagship detected' from the Nexus) and a strange thing happened. It appears in the extensions menu in game, and it's doing something but where the tracks should be playing you get silence. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

[Baconnaise]

I have the X-Rebirth Music Mod installed and it appears to not be working. Here is the mod in question btw https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/18
Anyways I have my mod folder in the root game directory. I would talk to the mod author and see if they can assist you.

[liam92]

That's the same author. They seem pretty baffled about it. I'd say it's related to the fact I have to put the extensions in my documents, but I don't know nearly enough about modding to say that's definitely it.

[Baconnaise]

I haven't personally tried anything to get it working as of yet. It might be a path issue where it's looking for root game folder in a Steam install and it won't work if you use documents (save/config path) or root game directory in a GoG installation where install path is modified to another drive.

[mancko]

Same with my... original music buggy and the mod to integrate the old music isn’t working too. There has to be a bigger problem within the game. The mod only works for people that haven’t any music problems...

@egosoft
This bug is really anoying!!! Music is very important in have fun while playing :/

[liam92]

I just want to execute the final edict

[VapeMom69]

You could try adding " -logfile debuglog.txt" to your launch options, the log might shed some light. You'll find it in that same /Documents/Egosoft/X4/<numbers>/ folder.

[liam92]

I gave it a try, but just glancing at it I don't know how enlightening it is.

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Logfile started, time Thu Dec 06 00:30:41 2018
[General] 0.00 'GeForce GTX 970' NVidia-driver v417.22.0 (Vulkan 1.1.84) check=1
[General] 14.74 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 14.74 File I/O: Could not find file '.\ui\addons\ego_eventmonitor\ui.xml'
[General] 14.74 ======================================
[General] 14.74 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 14.74 XLib::XMLInputOpenCallback(): Failed to open the file: ui/addons/ego_eventmonitor/ui.xml
[General] 14.74 ======================================
[General] 14.74 ======================================
[=ERROR=] 14.74 AddonManager::LoadAddonInfos(): Failed to load addon info file 'ui/addons/ego_eventmonitor/ui.xml.(xml|xml.gz)': 'Error loading from XML file 'ui/addons/ego_eventmonitor/ui.xml'. Check the log for further information.'
[General] 14.74 ======================================

[alexalsp]

Try

subst_01.cat
subst_01.dat

[liam92]

Try

subst_01.cat
subst_01.dat

I gave it a try and the results were... interesting.

Renaming the cat and dat files seems to have muted all sounds in the game. Even the egosoft splash screen. No sound effects when going through menus either.

Out of curiosity I downloaded and installed the mod again to make sure I didn't somehow get a broken file the first time. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with it.