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SOUND VOLTEX VIVID WAVE

Warning

Please make sure your data is from an appropriate source and unmodified before proceeding, this guide is unable to troubleshoot any problems related to bad or poorly managed data.

If you obtained data from a torrent file, make sure you're not seeding the data before proceeding as well.

Lastly, for demonstrative purposes, this guide uses SpiceTools, you should consult appropriate documentation and requirements of your desired tools as the setup process is likely to be extremely similar.

Getting Started

Before we even touch the game, let's fiddle with our audio settings to minimize any potential crashing on startup. In Windows, go to Playback Devices and then right click on your default device and go to Properties. From there, hit the Advanced tab and set your Default Format to 44100 Hz and check both of the options inside Exclusive Mode as pictured.

After downloading your data, the first thing to do is make sure your files aren't set to READ ONLY, make sure to uncheck it from the main folder in the Windows Properties tab if so. Then, put your desired 64-bit tools inside the game's contents folder, and to create a .bat file. Pictured below is what your folder should look like, feel free to name your .bat file anything you desire, for the sake of convenience we've named ours gamestart.bat.

Why does this look different than the usual? This installation includes a modules folder that Spice automatically detects, keeping things clean and simple. If your version of the game doesn't have this, it probably has the contents folder populated with many different dll files such as the main soundvoltex.dll. You should still place your tools here if so!

Configuring Your Tools

Now that you have your files ready, open up your .bat file in your desired text editor (we're using Notepad++) and edit it with your desired parameters, for the purpose of this guide we will demonstrate both a local network configuration and an online example below with SpiceTools, skip to whichever you're in need of accordingly and please keep in mind you can add whatever additional parameters you desire.

If you're not using SpiceTools:

The overall structure of your .bat file will differ from the guide, namely the initialization of SpiceTools won't be present and potential parameters may differ. As stated above, make sure to check the documentation of your tools to ensure you're using the correct parameters for your needs.

Configuring for a Local Network

For our local network configuration example, on a single line in the .bat file we're going to type spice64.exe -ea -w and save the file.

What do these different parameters do?

  • -ea enables an integrated e-amusement server within SpiceTools.
  • -w will boot the game in windowed mode which will ease our initial setup and testing later, make sure to remove -w to run the game fullscreen once you're done setting up!

Pictured below, the contents of our gamestart.bat file in Notepad++.

Configuring for an Online Network

For our online network example we're simply doing the above but with different parameters! On our single line, we're going to type spice64.exe -p XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -url http://yoururlhere.com/ -w and save the file.

What do these different parameters do?

  • -p takes your PCBID on your network of choice, simply replace XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX with your PCBID.
  • -url allows you to specify a custom service URL to connect with, simply replace http://yoururlhere.com/ with your chosen network's URL.
  • -w will boot the game in windowed mode which will ease our initial setup and testing later, make sure to remove -w to run the game fullscreen once you're done setting up!

Pictured below, the contents of our gamestart.bat file in Notepad++.

One final note, since you're playing on a network, you will have one additional step of setting up your card file within your chosen tools, make sure to check your server's information on how to setup a card file.

Final Steps and Setting up the Game

It's important to note before booting the game that Sound Voltex uses portrait mode and attempting to boot the game fullscreen in most landscape environments will result in a crash. To alleviate this, we must set our main monitor to portrait mode and be ready to rotate it! To do so, right click on your desktop and go into Display Settings, then simply set the orientation to Portrait as pictured.

In the event that you do not have the means to run the game in portrait mode and cannot rotate your monitor, it is recommended you boot the game in windowed mode. In SpiceTools, simply add the windowed mode parameter, this parameter is -w and can be placed right after any other desired parameters chosen in our gamestart.bat

With that, you're all done! The final step you'll have to do with your chosen tools is simply setting up your desired keybinds! Once you've done that, Boot the game with your gamestart.bat and the game should load and be ready to be enjoyed! Have fun!

Have any other errors?

Check out the Common Problems/Tips section and Error Code section to resolve any issues not seen in this guide to greater depth.