the sound in the game is VERY choppy! If i use sb16 it chops a LOT, and a little less with pro, and nearly nothing with sb8. buffers doesn't seem to help. and the video fast forwards something with the sound, seems like they're synced and the sound is weird and choppy. MAY be the other way around tho'. any ideas?
Might as well first try games in dosbox before recommending is, don't think final unity will run 😀
Wow. I saw VDMSound and Star Trek and immediately though of the 25th Anniversary edition. Doh!
Sorry.
Well, it looks like your using VDMSound and you've already modified the buffers. Have you tried XP's emulated sound? Also try creating an image of the CD and pointing the game to that.
i'm using a image and daemon tools now, it works like a charm, however the sound is still buggy, and the game just quits on me when i do certain actions...
i've found that the sound get better the older sb i use. sb8 is best, sb16 is stupid. the game kinda accelerates and decellerates a little all the time.
is too fast, is ok, is to fast, is ok, too fast......
Very likely that the game and Windows' timer emulation are kicking each other in the butt when SB16 is enabled. SB16 and Pro's can use auto-init DMA, plain SB didn't support it, some maybe the use/no use of this feature triggers certain timing issues in the game. Is there a "buffer size" option in the game somehwere for SB16?
V.
i haven't seen any sb16 buffersize inside the game, however there is a sync problem while in sb8-mode too. the game fasts on and slows down, and the sound is still a little scratchy, however not as much as in sb16-mode. the game exits all the time too, that's the biggest problem, i can play with the sb8-sound, however i need the game to be stable.
ahh, just remembered, this is how my sound sounded in indyana jones and dott and such with low in-game buffers. the sound was stuttery and ugly. if someone could find a way to increase the ingame buffer of this game it should work.
the game stopped hangig when i chose soundblaster 1.0 in game (least annoying sound) AND when i chose the same with the vdms loader. 😀
i found a way get the buffer underrun symptoms to dissapear. i set buffers in vdms to 0 and the studdering went away 😀 care to explain V ? if i try sb16 at buffers 0 it's muuuch better, however not flawless.
If setting buffer to 0 in VDMSound solved the pronlem then the explanation is simple: crappy audio drivers. 😀 You can also try to switch between WaveOut and DirectSound (but with buffer set to 75ms when using WaveOut), and/or try on another computer with a different soundcard/soundcard drivers.
V.
i was under the impression most people got this error, and it doesn't work very well with sb16 with buffers 0 either. it's a via ac'97 thingy.
The reason why I said that it may be a souncard driver thing is that the size of the buffer has virtually no effect on the emulation (other than small variation on the DMA period). Altering min/maxDMAPeriod may also produce some difference, but I'd be very curious if you observe a difference beween DirectSound and WaveOut in VDMSound.
V.
To the original poster: how were you able to get around the "not enough buffers" error in the installation check routine. I added buffers=20 to config.nt which didn't work but then I read in the online help that buffers is actually not supported by the W2K DOS enviroment (whereas eg. "files=... " is supported and therefore works and is detected properly by the program)
Ntcompatible, while certainly not the most reliable source states the same and lists it as unplayable so I am surprised to see so many people have gotten it to play. Are there different versions with different installers maybe?
Nevermind the above post. I just found out that the patch from http://www.patches-scrolls.de lets you install the game regardless 😀.
wrote:i was under the impression most people got this error, and it doesn't work very well with sb16 with buffers 0 either. it's a via ac'97 thingy.
OUCH! Get a new card, as soon as you can afford it...
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Stiletto
I am having the same problem with this Star Trek game with one exception. When I run the game without VDMSound, the sound is really choppy and sometimes difficult to understand (large gaps between words). However, when I use the right click menu to start the game under VDMSound, I get no sound. In fact, I can only get the game to start up with the company logo and no further.
I'm a sound card newbie so a lot of the earlier thread line didn't give me much insight on what I could be doing wrong. I'm using the program on Windows XP. Any help would be appreciated.
T.
You need to configure the game for VDMSound. A220, I7 (not 5), D1 (low-DMA), H5 (hi-DMA).
Yes, it’s my fault.
Since you have XP, to use VDMSound at it's fullest, this is the recommended install procedure:
Install Vlad's VDMSound program.
VDMSound v2.04 at http://www.ece.mcgill.ca/~vromas/vd...load/index.html
After installation is completed, copy the files from the 2.04 Update zipfile at http://vdmsound.sourceforge.net/files/ on top of the original files (wherever you installed them, the default for this is
C:\Program Files\VDMSound\).
Then download and install the GUI Launcher VDMSLaunchPad.v1.0.0.7, also at : http://vdmsound.sourceforge.net/files/
If the program locks when you try the "Run with VDMS" that has a little musical note by it, try the "Run with VDMS" that does NOT the little musical note.
