Hi Kamil and Darryl, There must be an alternative to using DirectSound/Music, after all you don't need them to play sounds in Windows. Is there not a Sound equiverlent to OpenGL? >hmm.. the midi music engine needs directmusic/dsound 8 but I am not sure if >BASS does. Anyway, this is just the REVERB effect. Just disable it and it >will work also with directx7. FMOD does not need DirectX at all (but it >will >use it if there is DSound installed and HW sound acceleration supported), >so >most likely I will switch also the music engine into FMOD as it is faster >according to CPU tests made by the authors of FMOD. Rob G. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com