I did both, and registered them in both folders - but still no visualization when I go to play a sample MIDI file.Īnd I thought it would look so cool playing Beethoven with a lava lamp on the screen I googled "wmp9 visualizations not working windows 2000" and didn't get much more than questions about WMP 12 (in Windows 7), a user-made wiki about WMP visualizations (wow, there really is a fan club for everything online), and finally, a suggestion to register mpvis.dll in the program folder and/or copy it to system32. I even was able to check on Windows Update that the system is fully up-to-date (it is). So I finally was able to get Windows 2000 installed in a VM for playing with old games and software, fully updated with the "unofficial" packs, IE6, and WMP9, thanks to some very helpful user suggestions including the popular guide here from But I noticed when trying to play some of Windows' sample MIDI files in WMP9, that those cool graphics things that play to the beat of the music, the Visualizations, don't show anything in the window when I select any of them from the menu.Īre visualizations not compatible with Win2K at all, or is there something that I may have overlooked that they need in order to play? Or something with the VM or VMs in general? I did install the Direct X 9 graphics updates, if that makes any difference.
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