| 30-10-2007 08:38 AM | |
| knechtodawas | Thank you. Mhhh, I will try EATXMS after work, although I already ran the games on a PC with 512MB without having problems. |
| 30-10-2007 07:01 AM | |
| Scatty |
Play the games with at least XMS (EMS is good too, speeds them up) on, and try using an utility called EATXMS (scroll more down until you see it) - here. Using this utility (which is a Dos program using the command-line parameters), shrink your memory down to 16MB and see if that eventually helps. Don't forget to reboot your computer after using this utility if you're in plain Dos mode as the memory stays shrunken. Don't need to reboot though if you just run the games from a Dos prompt in Win98 or with VDMSound in WinXP. |
| 30-10-2007 06:54 AM | |
| The Fifth Horseman |
Probably the games can't cope with your hardware. Nothing can be done about that, I'm afraid. Maybe - just maybe - FreeDOS could solve that, but there is no guarantee. |
| 30-10-2007 06:44 AM | |
| knechtodawas | Sorry, me again... |
| 30-10-2007 06:43 AM | |
| Guest |
Okay, the following works fine: I have to reduce the sound volume of my notebook via the corresponding hardware buttons. Then I pump up the volume in Heretic. So long so good. But a completely different problem with Heretic and other Doom engine games bothers me now: The games often access the hard disk, which results in a stuttering. In Doom the little floppy icon appears in this situation. It is like playing the games on a system with 4MB RAM, but I have 196 MB. I even installed Windows 98 instead of ME and used the pure DOS mode, but it made no difference. I also played the games without memory managers. |
| 25-10-2007 10:40 AM | |
| _r.u.s.s. | maybe you have your soundcard misconfigured in doom, quake, heretic, etc? i d try different sound cards and iqr/dma |
| 24-10-2007 06:24 AM | |
| The Fifth Horseman |
Can't tell you - it's a secret. Besides, that place isn't there anymore. |
| 24-10-2007 06:23 AM | |
| knechtodawas | This was me... |
| 24-10-2007 06:22 AM | |
| Guest |
Okay, I got closer to the problem. If I increase the ingame sound volume, the sound issues begin to disappear. With high volume the sound is almost fine, but my eardrum revolts as I use earphones ;-). Probably I get a satisfying result by decreasing the volume in the Windos/DOS mixer and increasing the volume in the games to the max. I have later... Strange: The messy sound occurs at Heretic, Doom and Quake, but not at Redneck Rampage. |
| 24-10-2007 02:53 AM | |
| tikbalang | where did you get dos 7.1? |
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