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Help! w/ gamelauncher
jammadave:
:-\ ahhh, this is exactly the problem i started out with, which has snowballed into me about to have to completely wipe and reinstall the whole computer. onboard ac97 sound and all. DOS just doesn't like it.
i must say in retrospect to myself and now to you, if GL runs fine with mame32, then why change it to dmame?
Dave Dribin has recommended that I use mame.exe (plain win-mame), thus keeping all the sound stuff in windows and it should work.
Muh Fangers is Carossed!
cheers
dave
Dave Dribin:
--- Quote from: mamefan123 on August 19, 2002, 04:07:49 pm ---
Thank guys, that made mame run but I still dont have any sound in dos. I have onboard pci ac97?
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DOS probably doesn't jive well with your non-ISA sound card. In my opinion, you have 1 of 2 options. First, buy an ISA sound card, like a Creative AWE64. This will solve all your DOS sound problems. If you can't do this for some reason (ISA slots are harder to come by, for one), I recommend you drop DOS and dmame.exe. In my experience, it's damn near impossible to get PCI sound cards to work under DOS. And rather than mame32, I would suggest the windows version of MAME from www.mame.net (i.e mame.exe). This will use DirectSound and all the normal Windows sound drivers, so all should be fine. The Windows version of GL works just dandy with mame.exe.
-Dave
Bill_S:
I also had issues getting my onboard sound to work in DOS. I ended up giving up and buying an old PCI (that's right PCI, not ISA) soundblaster ensonique 128 soundcard and disabling the onboard audio.
It works great in both windows and DOS. Problem solved. The soundcard cost me like $8 at my local PC chop shop.
Dave Dribin:
--- Quote from: Bill_S on August 21, 2002, 12:00:50 pm ---
I also had issues getting my onboard sound to work in DOS. I ended up giving up and buying an old PCI (that's right PCI, not ISA) soundblaster ensonique 128 soundcard and disabling the onboard audio.
It works great in both windows and DOS. Problem solved. The soundcard cost me like $8 at my local PC chop shop.
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I'm impressed. :) There must be a small sub-set of PCI sound cards that work well under DOS. I tried getting a few PCI sounds working without luck.
-Dave
mamefan123:
Hey Thanks for the suggestions! I gave up on the onboard sound and tried running an old sb pro with no success, it having an issue with irqs, tried irq 5,7,9,and 10 and adjusted autoexec.bat and config.sys accordingly still kept getting errors with irqs in DOS it must have been a bad card. I ordered an ensoniq pci sound card and I'm going to try that instead. I'll post my results when I get it.