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Originally Posted by ArchangelGabriel

But the problem is, that everything depends on time - especially my funds counter. I imagine a rather long session of about 30 minutes of play time during a mission coming back to the world map and my whole despotism came to an end just because all my cash is drained or people are responding negative and I can't do anything about that.
How slow is normal for the game?

You should have a positive cashflow, so either:
- increase taxes, especially in regions with easy missions (too high taxes may cause a revolt, forcing you to replay that mission)
- decrease your research spend

For the in-game speed, it's important to fine-tune it so that the game is well playable. The in-game hours don't really matter much, I remember most missions took easily 24 or more in-game hours.

Hey. great game. the sound is working but im getting no music. whys that? running in dosbox.

[_r.u.s.s.]

that's funny, i don't get any sound

i tried looking into main.bat and saw there is iirq5 instead of dosbox's default iirq7, change that but it didn't help

[The Fifth Horseman]

There's very little music in the game. Just one track during the intro and one during missions. Are you hearing the one in the intro?

[_r.u.s.s.]

nope .. absolutely none, i tried all dosbox 72 and 73

and lol, i just found this post in this thread, look

Originally Posted by Anonymous

I thought I would clear up some misinformation. The version uploaded here has some problems you need to fix before you can play it, no matter how you run the game.

1. Stability -- the dos4gw.exe in this game is terrible and causes crashes. Download a new dos4gw, preferably 1.97 or newer.

2. Sound -- for some reason, that sound files aren't in the proper directory. Copy all the dlls, ani, tab, and other non-exe files to the DATA subdir. That enables sounds.

VDMS notes (win 2k, xp)
Disable MIDI and joystick
Cap dos timer rate
Slow down the cpu according to how fast it seems
Enable VESA video

This works to get the game running and with sound as well. Only the "win" screen is jerky.

after doing this, it works like a charm, the music is inside the missions and sound effects too

i wonder why did this never get fixed, gonna update the archive on the server
edit: done

[zirkoni]

Originally Posted by spoonspoon

Hey. great game. the sound is working but im getting no music. whys that? running in dosbox.

Copy all the files from your syndicate folder in the syndicate\DATA folder and edit the synd.bat file so it reads:
main.exe >nul: /iirq7 /idma1 /iio$220 /c0
and start the game with synd.bat.

Looks like AB has a corrupted archive or something

[zirkoni]

Originally Posted by zirkoni

Copy all the files from your syndicate folder in the syndicate\DATA folder and edit the synd.bat file so it reads:
main.exe >nul: /iirq7 /idma1 /iio$220 /c0
and start the game with synd.bat.

Looks like AB has a corrupted archive or something

edit:

Originally Posted by zirkoni

Copy all the files from your syndicate folder in the syndicate\DATA folde

that worked. thank you. synd bat irq was a;ready at 7.

[hiraghm]

Originally Posted by FreeFreddy

You just raised the tax-rate too high. If you keep it at 5-15%, you still should get enough money and the population in countries under your iron hand could even grow larger (especially with 5% or less). They lose people if the tax is too high, too (cause you get less money).

Gee, think we could send copies of this game to Congress?

Hi, I am having a version of the old 'not saving' problem - I'm running the game from dosbox on a mac. Syndicate works fine but its the American Revolt version that isn't saving.

I've seen people saying you need a folder called SYND/SAVE in your root folder regardless of where the game is, but had no luck with that.

The package I downloaded (which I placed in UNTITLED/SYND - 'UNTITLED' being the drive) has a directory called 'C', which contains 'SYND', which in turn contains 'main.exe' and all those.

so the path of 'SAVE' is UNTITLED/SYND/SAVE
the game is UNTITLED/SYND/C/SYND/main.exe

any ideas?