There's a problem with the installer...after the language selection, it gives me an error message saying "You need to be running as an Administrator to install VDMSound." What do I do?

a) What about running it as Administrator as it says (if you use W2000 or WXP)?
b)If you use W9x, WME then forget it - regular VDMSound cannot be installed on them - look for alpha version for W9x on this forum.

Mirek

poor performance in FM sound emulation when running some japanese dos games (eg nanpa2(no sound at all),dra4(dreadful sound comparing with what emulated by dosbox)) under windows xp(home edition). Any idea to make the damned speaker working?? Thx a lot!!

BUGI is a stupid spammer. I already deleted two posts as above from DOSBOX forum.

Mirek

I just downloaded and it says I need to be a moderator to install! What gives?

this thing isntr working with my sound card can u fix it plz?

2.1.0 beta was released 5th july 2003. When, if ever, will the next version be released? Has the VDMSound development stopped entirely?

Yes. But feel free to prove me wrong.

What exactly are you looking for in a new version?

Well, I would think a final product shouldn't have beta status. That is, if the latest beta version is also considered to be the final VDMSound in existence. Also, I'm having problems with the current version (it doesn't allocate EMS), so hopefully a new version could fix that. But obviously, that's not going to happen. 😒

quark, if this is old news/irrelevant, just ignore this post...

VDMSound works in tandem with the standard NTVDM to do one think only: Provide sound for the V(irtual)D(os)M(achine). NTVDM is responsible for providing XMS and EMS support. On some motherboards, EMS is simply not available to NTVDM, due to some unfortunate memory usage by Windows(?). Short of re-implementing NTVDM (and I am not sure that is enough) there is NO way the missing EMS is suddenly going to appear.

shouldn't he disable some devices in BIOS? like LAN, USB, etc.?

Yep - disabling the on-board LAN works for me (NVIDIA nForce2 motherboard). If quark would bother to search these forums for EMS/USB/LAN/BIOS I am sure it will pop up.

Thank god for you guys developing this, I LOVE YOU. i havnt been able to play indiana jones and the fate of atlantis until now 😀 😀 😀

I've tried to disable all USB and network devices in Windows, but it doesn't help. Do I have to disable it in BIOS, or should disabling it in the device manager be enough?

quark wrote:

Do I have to disable it in BIOS, or should disabling it in the device manager be enough?

You must disable things in BIOS if you want to get EMS.

Mirek

Anonymous wrote:

Thank god for you guys developing this, I LOVE YOU. i havnt been able to play indiana jones and the fate of atlantis until now 😀 😀 😀

All the praise and credit belongs to vladr, I think. Everyone else here are just happy users - with a geeky fascination for getting old software to work on new hardware 😉

perfect
i love opl2, opl3 sound
and this program is fantastic
thank you for development

When I want to install VDMSound, it alerts me:
'You must be running as an Administration to install VDMSound'

But how can I be an administration in Win 98???

Dragon wrote:

But how can I be an administration in Win 98???

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VDMSound does NOT work in W9x !!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you search the forum, you will find an alpha version of VDMsound for W9x. No idea how good it is.

Mirek