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shassouneh
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 2001-08-30 20:59:21
Hi everyone. I can't get Shadow Warrior to work with sound under windows 2000 professional. The game itself will run, but it has issues working with my sound card. I have a SoundBlaster 16 compatible sound card (Creative Vibra PNP 16), and I have already Tried VDMSound 2.0.4. When I run the setup program (setup.exe or setmain.exe) under VDMSound it seems to pick up the sound card but fails the audio test (locks up).
If someone has figured out a way to have it work, please let me know.
Thanx
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DosFreak
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From: Warner-Robins, Georgia
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 2001-09-04 11:21:19
Nope. IIRC, only MIDI works. Sound locks it up. Will re-verify tonight. The only 100& best way to get it working is to boot into DOS or run it under Connectix Virtual PC. These ways give you full sound & VESA support.
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shassouneh
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2001-09-13 07:32:06
Unfortunately, sice all my drives are formatted as NTFS, it is impossible for me to use a boot disk (win9x/me). Any other alternatives out there? the game is really not worth it without sound!
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FrogMaster
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 2001-09-14 04:28:18
Just wondering ... would it be possible to run it off a bootable cd while redirecting files that has to be write-accessed (cfg and saves) to a floppy or a zip?
Or boot from a zip with the full game on it - if bios allows?
Or boot from a floppy with main game files on a cd or a zip?
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shassouneh
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2001-09-14 04:44:38
Well I'm not sure if you can trick it in such a way. And even if I COULD boot in such a way, my drives are partitioned as NTFS, so it will do me no good. Also, my BIOS is old, and does not support booting from a CD anyways. I tried updaing it, to no use!
The call is still one for people to find ways around this problem! keep posting!
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DosFreak
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2001-09-16 02:06:09
Install Windows XP and you will have full sound/midi support (but no VESA).
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shassouneh
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2001-09-16 02:10:46
I would love to be able to install windows XP. I tried installing a recent beta of it, but it asked for an "activation". I do not wish to activate a beta, and Windows Xp's retail price is expected to be hefty on the pocket ;-), so for now (at least) I will have to go by with whatever win2k can handle. Thanx for the reply though. I am aware that Windows XP has increased support for dos games. :-)
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