Audio bug level: trolling *FIXED*

Ades

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I know this has been a common problem due to the 1.20 patch or something else, and I know this has been answered far too many times. I am talking about that problem where after I patch to 1.20 I don't hear any music in-game. I did the trick to make it come back, which is to copy the Audio Music file from the CD to the game's location and it worked... Only, not completely:

As I am speaking I have tried to find the source of the problem and I think it might be because of one or many corrupted music-launching scripts, which I have no idea what they are or if there are or how to find them/restore them. That or the .sad files from my CD are actually corrupt themselves. If it's not that I have no idea since I now uninstalled and re-installed completely and entirely the game 3 times, I tried getting into the registry, I tried patching in order 1.1 and then 1.2, I tried no aditionnal patches after this, I tried all, I basically tried everything I could know about. Before going any further, I am not intending on patching the game at a lower version than 1.20 and I know that 1.30 is useless for me since I don't have a P-5 glove, so even though I know it works because I tried, I do not plan on not using patches. I also have the same problem at v1.10 alone, so this version is useless as well.

Now for what the problem is: After I copy the Audio from my CD to the game's location on the hard drive, only most of the music works. Thoses working musics are the neutral alignment ambiance music and all cinematic musics except 2. Those two musics are the smooth ambiance when you talk to Sable for the first time, or the guide and etc... The second music is the ending credit music. Everything else works, as well as the quest related music and subtle musics such as signing stones, flutes, funerals, etc... Other musics that doesn't work includes the temple music, town's ambiances and everything linked to a good or evil alignment. Also, the two creature fight musics doesn't work. Dances are there however, and what's weirder is that every once in a while the game will play the neutral ambiance in place of one of the unworking musics (the temple one being the most frequent), and what I find even weirder is that when I do the same trick for Creature Island, all the music works in CI, but everything I try fails for B&W.

I have no clue if it ever happened to someone and would seriously need help. I searched most B&W existing forums to date but nothing gives, and I never heard anyone with the same problem occuring.

Also, any clues on why the good conscience thinks that it's evil to heal?

Reinstalling the game again is not an option anymore, it has proven futile.

*EDIT* Since 100% of the audio music worked for Creature Island and after looking at the names of the music files I noticed that they were the exact same, I tried copying the musics from Creature Island into the original B&W instead and it worked, some of the .sad files in my old CD were simply corrupted or something like that I guess.
 
Pretty much everything running "correctly" as far as I know (not much) but I can't apply the BWCIFanPatchInstaller. It says "you must have Creature Island installed" which I do. It is however in the ProgramFiles(x86) folder where the BWFanPatchInstaller was able to run just fine after I set the contents of the Lionhead folder off of "read only".

I'm guessing it's something to do with that, but if the first patcher could run ok and everything else worked for that folder it's just that one Creature Island fan patch I'm doing without. Both games run fine in practice at 1080p from there, every other patch, patcher, update, upgrade and customisation installed and work from there... but not that one.

Is it a simple matter of moving the folder (I installed everything into Black&White and CreatureIsland is inside that main folder) elsewhere, patching it there or is there something I'm missing. The main fan patch found the main game files without having to choose the location the files were installed, all automatic.

Everything is working fine, and I can play both games, music, fully patched and the nice graphics update for CI Definitive Edition (and whatever else that does). Am I missing much by not having the CI Fan Patch specifically now, or not?

I'm wondering if the CI fan patch looks everywhere but the ProgramFiles(x86) folder, even thought it would probably work if it looked there for whatever files it needed to patch? Is there a fix for this, and can I just drag the folder out, stick it elsewhere, run the patch and put it back? Are there any other files that reference that location I need to know about for example?

If the reason it's not installing is because I already used the main Fan Patch on that folder I guess I can understand that too, but its a bit confusing that the main Fan Patch applied fine after I removed the read only status on that, and this one doesn't seem to even be able to find the files or see that CI is installed.

Thanks for any help on this, and I guess I can just install everything again in another location and not move it back if that's not possible.
 
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