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Populous 2

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First post, by Dev

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Trying to replay this classic, but having trouble getting sound working.

I'm running Windows XP MCE, sound card is an Audigy 2 if that matters whatsoever. The copy of the game is from the-underdogs. The sound files all seem to be intact (intsb.bin, intsnd.bin, sam.bin, sb.bin).

I can get the intro to run with sound just fine (using vdmsound), but the same settings, or any other combination I tried with the game itself gave not a peep. I checked my vdmsound version release notes, and it does mention having had some fix for populous 2. Am I doing something wrong here? or is there some fancy configuration I need?

The game has no 'sound setup' to the best of my knowledge. The intro works just using vdm's default settings, but it's a separate executable from the game itself.

Any ideas?

Reply 1 of 8, by eL_PuSHeR

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Did you try it under DOSBox? (check forums for more info).

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Reply 2 of 8, by Dev

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I hadn't, but I have now, with no luck. Same thing, intro has sound, game does not. I checked the game's manual, it says it supports sound blaster, and not tandy or adlib, no problems there. Doesn't mention any specific irq or dma settings, but I tried playing around with those too, to no avail.

Reply 3 of 8, by eL_PuSHeR

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How do you configure sound settings for this game?

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Reply 4 of 8, by rcblanke

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like so:
contents of go.bat:

intro
pop2 /l /ss %1 %2

(for low-res) or

intro
pop2 /h /ss %1 %2

(for hi-res)

Reply 5 of 8, by eL_PuSHeR

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Can you enter any manual parameter for sound settings?

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Reply 6 of 8, by rcblanke

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I believe the /ss is for soundblaster sound. Not sure what %1 and %2 are for...

Reply 7 of 8, by eL_PuSHeR

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They are used to pass additional command-line parameters to the batch file.

If /ss is for enabling SB, do you know if there are some other parameters to force ADDRESS, IRQ, DMA and such?

Do you have the blaster line set up correctly. Type SET to find out.

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Reply 8 of 8, by Dev

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Tried running GO.bat instead of POP2.exe with VDMSound, no go there, so i tried adding those command line params to the exe file, again no luck though.