Can't get sound to work on old games.....

[Polly]

A week or so ago I got bored and while checking out sreen shots of the new monkey island game I went to Lucas Arts store and bought volume 1 of the game archives. I figured its been 6 years since I played Sam and Max and I got the money to spend. It came today packaged in some peanuts that disolve in water(heh tried chewing on one) and I cannot get any sound to work on them. I have a creative labs sound card with latest drivers but I still cannot get any of the games that came in the package to work. Any suggestions?

[Warin]

Originally posted by Polly:
A week or so ago I got bored and while checking out sreen shots of the new monkey island game I went to Lucas Arts store and bought volume 1 of the game archives. I figured its been 6 years since I played Sam and Max and I got the money to spend. It came today packaged in some peanuts that disolve in water(heh tried chewing on one) and I cannot get any sound to work on them. I have a creative labs sound card with latest drivers but I still cannot get any of the games that came in the package to work. Any suggestions?

Have you tried running the setup utility? I've found that older Lucasarts games that were written in the bad ole DOS days still need this configuration to work. For the correct info, look in the autoexec.bat file for the set blaster command, and this will tell you how to set the sound configs in the setup utility. I hope this helps you.

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[pOlly]

Originally posted by Warin:
Have you tried running the setup utility? I've found that older Lucasarts games that were written in the bad ole DOS days still need this configuration to work. For the correct info, look in the autoexec.bat file for the set blaster command, and this will tell you how to set the sound configs in the setup utility. I hope this helps you.

I have already tried that. I have also tried using bootdisks and running it through MSDOS. Sound is perfect with anything else I do but with these games.

[Warin]

Originally posted by pOlly:
I have already tried that. I have also tried using bootdisks and running it through MSDOS. Sound is perfect with anything else I do but with these games.

All righty.
Which Creative card is it?

Have you emailed Lucasarts tech support? Or tied their online knowledge base?



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[HarneyEmpire]

Im assuming you are using WIn98/95 w/o dual
boot.
With Dual boot you can start MS-Dos 6.22 and setup the drivers in config.sys and autoexec.bat.
Once that's done look for the configuration executables in the game directory and run and configure it. Once configured start the game.

If you're running the Dos games thru the Win98 i really cant help you much, but I know your gonna have to create the Autoexec and Config.sys for WIN98 to initialze the Sound drivers for those Dos games. I read that somewhere. Hope this helps

[Bash]

I'd bet you're not running a DOS sound driver on your system, though lots of sound cards do try to install them when you install the drivers.

Perhaps what you need to do is boot to DOS mode and add the drivers to autoexec.bat or config.sys and then play from DOS.

bash

[gaffo]

harvey and bash are right - those are DOS games (i have many old XT stuff thru 386 - got of "Classic game" sites)- i installed REAL DOS 6.22, then win31. then win98 (upgrade-FE), then (upgrade-SE) - windows renames your autoexec.bat and config.sys to autoexec.? and config.? (can't rem.) - BUT all seems to work - on bootup the CD-rom, soundblaster16 DOS drivers load - and then windows dirvers for same devices load (somehow they don't conflick on my system - not sure if only luck or windows can load/unload DOS/windows drivers when needed? - anyway if you got REAL DOS laying around somewhere install it, (and all DOS drivers - i.e. mouse,sound,cd-rom,-think thats all), so your config.sys and autoexec.bat files should have references to these drivers in them (look by using DOS edit.exe) - you can see if your mouse works under edit too this way. now install windows98 over DOS (i've had trouble with DOS/win drivers conflicting under device manager under the IDE PCI drivers - i had "compatability mode" - this is not really a good thing, but windows still works --- this time around when i install windows over DOS, no drivers conflicted and the device manager looks fine (i.e. no "compatability mode" message) i've asked around and KNOWONE know why --- seems like there are the old school guys that know DOS (me) and new school guys that know windows, but knowone knows how to make them work together, and mircosoft is in such a state of DOS denial, that there help files are worthless wrt DOS. Anyway - firstoff you need to go the creative lads site and download the DOS driver for your card (or find your floppy driver disk that can with your card) and then figure out if the above method is worth the hassle - esp. since your drivers may end up conflicting with each other!. having a DOS bootdisk would be a solution, tho a combersume inelligant one. good luck - i def. needed it last month when i reinstalled all my stuff - still not done!. if you got a CD-r i recommend you go to NTI's site a download thier "Backup NOW 2" and make an entire disk image of your computer setup - so when the registy gets f$^%ed, you can totally resore your desktop as it was - (i.e. working). unfort. my cd-rw is not supported, but hopefully soon will be!.

[Polly]

Ok I understood what all of you said, really I did, but for those not as smart as you and me please try to explain it in newbie language. For others, not me....

[alberto]

Don't agree with the above solution as being feasibly viable, unless you like complicating the matter

If you state which soundblaster card you have many people are going to be able to tell you exactly what you need to check and how to do so.

Monkey Island 1 and 2 are based completely on dos whilst 3 you should be getting sound working.

great games though