MysterD Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 Curious if anybody can help. If I run MW2: Mercs in Windows, it has sound. Run it in DOS, nothing. If I run Extreme Pinball, it crashes at boot-up in DOS -- unless sound is off. Game wasn't made for Windows. My sound card is a Sound Blaster PCI 128, BTW. Here's my SET in DOS reads off: Microsoft® Windows 98 ©Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999. C:\WINDOWS>set TMP=c:\windows\TEMP TEMP=C:\windows\TEMP PROMPT=$p$g winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 T6 SBPCI=C:\SBPCI CLASSPATH=C:\PROGRA~1\PHOTOD~1.0\ADOBEC~1 QTJAVA="C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.0\lib\ext\QTJava.zip" PATH=C:\WINDOWS;c:\windows;c:\windows\COMMAND;C:\FAFSA012 windir=C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twifkak Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 I dunno how much help I can provide, but read off the contents of your autoexec.bat and config.sys (found in the root directory). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysterD Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 Config: DEVICE=c:\windows\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS DOS=HIGH,UMB,AUTO FILESHIGH=80 BUFFERSHIGH=40,4 DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\CPQIDECD.SYS /D:IDECD001 SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:2048 FILES=120 BUFFERS=32 AutoExec: @ECHO OFF SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 T6 SET SBPCI=C:\SBPCI SET CLASSPATH=C:\PROGRA~1\PHOTOD~1.0\ADOBEC~1 SET QTJAVA="C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.0\lib\ext\QTJava.zip" SET QTJAVA="C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.0\lib\ext\QTJava.zip"SET QTJAVA="C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.0\lib\ext\QTJava.zip" SET PATH=C:\FAFSA012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fov Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 If I run MW2: Mercs in Windows, it has sound. are you running a windows version of the game? or a DOS version from within windows? if it's the latter, is it possible your sound card needs separate DOS drivers? i know very little about DOS, but recently i installed Oregon Trail (circa early 90s) which could only run in DOS (not a DOS prompt in windows), and i had to download a separate mouse driver and install it in DOS before i could use my mouse. -emily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysterD Posted July 3, 2003 Author Share Posted July 3, 2003 Originally posted by fov are you running a windows version of the game? or a DOS version from within windows? I can do either or. If I run it in Win 98, it runs w/ sound intact -- but in a tiny screen. If I run in Win 98 and run MS-DOS Prompt to run it, no sound. If I run reboot into MS-DOS and run, it runs -- but no sound. if it's the latter, is it possible your sound card needs separate DOS drivers? Might. I don't know if my drivers are corrupted or whatnot, b/c it used to work all the time. i know very little about DOS, but recently i installed Oregon Trail (circa early 90s) which could only run in DOS (not a DOS prompt in windows), and i had to download a separate mouse driver and install it in DOS before i could use my mouse. -emily Interesting, FOV. Good to hear from you -- I miss our SOD Theories thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twifkak Posted July 5, 2003 Share Posted July 5, 2003 Originally posted by MysterD Config: AutoExec: OK, it's been awhile since I've DOSsed out, but although your BLASTER is set, I believe that's only being done to support some sort of "Legacy" driver that's likely being run in Windows. In other words -- you need to find a DOS driver (COM, EXE, or SYS) provided by your sound card mfr. and place it in config or autoexec (depending). (FWIW, the "blaster" variable is just some cheap way of letting those games that support the Sound Blaster (or compatibles) what channel to speak to the drivers through.) I'm fuzzy on some of this, though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysterD Posted July 5, 2003 Author Share Posted July 5, 2003 Thanks for the info. I'll have to check into it. That makes a lot of sense, to me -- all I need is DOS drivers for my SB card. Interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysterD Posted July 16, 2003 Author Share Posted July 16, 2003 What happened Last Friday: I went to update my SB PCI drivers, and PC crashed. So, drivers were dead -- no sound. "!"mark next to it under Device Manager list. So has no choice: uninstalled the drivers. Reinstalled them. My DOS games have sound!!! But, here's the weirdness: I can only run Freedom Force at full acceleration on SOUND. Rest of games for SOUND run fine w/ no acceleration. Odd. Any idea how I can get full acceleration back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twifkak Posted July 20, 2003 Share Posted July 20, 2003 Originally posted by MysterD What happened Last Friday: I went to update my SB PCI drivers, and PC crashed. So, drivers were dead -- no sound. "!"mark next to it under Device Manager list. So has no choice: uninstalled the drivers. Reinstalled them. My DOS games have sound!!! But, here's the weirdness: I can only run Freedom Force at full acceleration on SOUND. Rest of games for SOUND run fine w/ no acceleration. Odd. Any idea how I can get full acceleration back? No clue. Sorry. Good luck, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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