Hello!

After downloading the most recent beta VDMSound program, successfully installing it, and rebooting(although I was never asked to)... I get no 'right-click' options when I right click on a .exe or .bat for my old dos games.

According to the usage instructions, there should be a 'run with VDMSound' option when i right click a .bat or .exe, no?

After reading the FAQ and included .rtf readme, I found no mention of this issue... what exactly might I be doing wrong?

Thanks for any help in advance!

Running: WinXPpro (fully updated)

***EDIT: Tried adding the line 'dosdrv' in my game's .bat file to invoke VDMsound. I got a whole host of 'could not instantiate...' errors i had to click through, and of course the game didn't work as intended.

After reading other help threads, yes, I did install under administrator.

Mayhaps this will shed some more light on my problem?
Any advice is appreciated.

***EDIT 2: Seems two other chaps have very similar problems, and both seem to be unresolved issues:

Guest:
Motherboard: MSI K7N2 Delta
Processor type and speed: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (2.0 GHz)
Amount and type of RAM: 1.5Gb DDR PC2100
Video board w/ RAM amount and type: Gainward NVidia GeForce FX 5600 w/ 256Mb DDR RAM
Sound board: Built-in to Motherboard
Operating system: Windows XP Professional
Game name (and version, if applicable): Sierra Adventure Games
Description of problem: Installation will not integrate into shell. Also, while the installation completes successfully, when run I get instantiation errors. These seem to have been fixed using a registry modifier for the old 2.0.4 version; however, I still cannot figure out how to integrate it into the shell.
Reproducibility of problem: Every time I've installed it (5 times)
Sound mode used: Not sure what this means...
Video mode: SVGA 256
Version of Emulator: 2.1.0 with 2.0.4 forced registry entries
Steps already attempted to solve the problem: I've attempted uninstalling and reinstalling the program several times. I've rebooted between each attempt, and after each installation. Also, I disabled every single program running in the background, including VirusScan, WinAmp, etc. I uninstalled my PC Alert4 also, just to be safe. I have no further ideas on how to fix this problem. Is there a way to manually force shell integration? If so, that would probably do just fine. Thank you.

Guest:
Hi
I've been trying to get VDMS 2.1.0 to install, but haven't gotten around to getting it to work. I've previously used VDMS 2.0.4, and it worked properly. But now I tried to install 2.1.0 and in the process uninstalled 2.0.4, and neither of them work. The VDMS support board @ SF offered manual implementation of a .reg file, but I suppose that was a 2.0.4 feature, since a .reg file didn't appear with the 2.1.0 installation.

I consulted the FAQ for help, and it suggested that a virus shield or programs like SiSoftware Sandra could interfere with the installation, so I uninstalled Sandra and disabled my virus shield, but got the same response.

After my first installation of 2.1.0 the 'Run with VDMS' option from the right-click menu was gone, and manually running DOSdrv.exe just came up with a "class not registered" error box for a number of VDMS dll's.

They appeared as following:

Unable to instantiate emulation module 'VDMServicesProvider'.

0x80040154 - Class not registered (D:\PROGRA~1\VDMSound\VDMS.INI:66)

Do you want to continue? (Yes/No)

Continuing with the program just brought up a number of similar boxes.

I'm running Win2k SP4, Athlon 1 GHz, 512 MB RAM, SB Audigy 2, Radeon 7500, F-Secure VShield