WC4 on Win2k - Sound help?

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I just dug out my copy of WC4 and it's running great on my Win2K box, except for one thing - I cannot for the life of me get the sound to work. No matter what I select in the sound settings it seems to either do nothing or crash the game.

It's been *years* since I had to configure the individual IMQ or DMA settings for a game, and I think I must just be a little rusty. I'm not even sure where to look to figure it out! And am I supposed to match the settings I find on my soundcard or get them wrong to avoid a conflict? Hell I feel like a newb even asking about something like this, but it seems you guys are the sort that might help a guy out!

Thanks so much!

- Chris

 

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PS - I have the game on 6 cds if that helps, not a dvd.

 

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I just dug out my copy of WC4 and it's running great on my Win2K box, except for one thing - I cannot for the life of me get the sound to work. No matter what I select in the sound settings it seems to either do nothing or crash the game.

It's been *years* since I had to configure the individual IMQ or DMA settings for a game, and I think I must just be a little rusty. I'm not even sure where to look to figure it out! And am I supposed to match the settings I find on my soundcard or get them wrong to avoid a conflict? Hell I feel like a newb even asking about something like this, but it seems you guys are the sort that might help a guy out!

Thanks so much!

- Chris

Are you running the dos version? You could either give dosbox a shot (which may not be that good of an option if your maching is slow) or try the win95 patch if you haven't already. With the patch installed I think there is even an additional patch for win2k. Otherwise you could also (with the win95 patch) try enabling compatability modes (you will need win2k service pack 4 ) and setting it for the WC executable.

Running the game just in windows if it's the dos version might not work for sound because the game might just not recognize newer hardware. If you are running the game in dosbox, when you set up the sound make sure not to forget that dosbox defaults to IRQ 7 instead of 5 so you will have to set up the game accordingly.

 

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Thanks!

Well sound worked like a charm after I moved all of the files from the first disk onto a directory on my C: and ran it in DOSBox, the game creen was tiny though! I bumped down my res to 600X800 and it seemed a little better, but I noticed the video and sound was choppy no matter what res I was at.

I was hoping to get it to work without a DOS emulator... and like I said, it seemed to be, movies and gameplay were just fine... I think I just need some guidance as to the Port/IMQ/DMA settings and which of the types of sound card to select to get the sound to work...

Also, I'm using SP4 on win 2k, but I'm not familliar with the Win98 patch you're talking about. Care to link me?

Once again, thanks so much!

 

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addendum

Figured out how to make DOsBox fullscreen which took care of the tiny screen issue, but the video/audio still chops about every two seconds or so. Suggestions?

 

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Figured out how to make DOsBox fullscreen which took care of the tiny screen issue, but the video/audio still chops about every two seconds or so. Suggestions?

The choppy sound might be fixable by increasing your cycles in dosbox.
Read over the tech walkthrough here and see if there may be something you've overlooked: https://www.wcnews.com/techsupport.shtml#wc4

alternately, here's the win95 patch: http://download.wcnews.com/files/wing4/wc4win95.zip

And if that doesn't work with the compatability modes set, you can try this one: http://download.wcnews.com/files/wing4/wc4win2kfix.zip which I believe needs to be applied on top of the win95 patch.

 

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Try VDMSound. It enables sound in the regular command window for almost all games.