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First post, by Merrick

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Terra Nova is one of the best games I've ever played so once I found out about VDMSound I decided to get it out of the closet and see if I could get it to run. I am able to configure all of the sound just fine within the Terra Nova setup program and once I load the TN game itself I get the opening cinematic for Looking Glass software, but immediately after that cinimatic the game crashes and I get this

Unfortunately, you have crashed Terra Nova, version V1.08
Please contact Looking Glass Customer Service with the
information on this screen.

LG Customer Service Email Addresses:
AOL              LookingG
Compuserve       75162,432
Internet         cs@lgt.tiac.net
Crash Code: 4142


General protection fault
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00012c00 EDX: 0000ffff TXT: 000002ff
ESI: 0004b000 EDI: d0000000 EBP: 000001e0 ESP: 0330f3cc DTA: 00000307
EIP: 03179e77 ERR: 00000000 EFL: 00013216 EXC: 0000000d EMN: 030c01b8
CS: 02ff DS: 0307 ES: 0307 FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0307

I've tried disabling all, enabling VESA support, low level CD-ROM support, but nothing seems to work. I HAVE gotten the game to run under DOSBOX, but it's not as fast as I would like it, even though I'm running an Athlon 64 3200+.

Just curious if anyone has had any success getting Terra Nova to run with VDMSound - if so, I would really appreciate any tips to getting it going! Thanks.

Merrick

Reply 1 of 2, by Merrick

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After doing some more searching I came across a thread on the TTLG forums and found this which explains how to get the game running. Worked like a charm!

http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=67482

Merrick

Reply 2 of 2, by Bayli

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That didn't work with me for some reason, but I got it running on DosBox real well.
DOSBox SVN Builds <-- there's a link to KuligozaCVS Dosbox, go there and get it. Then (this is easiest with some frontend, like D-Fend) use custom settings for the game. (these are actually modified versions of the Crusader custom configs I found from here a while ago)
And then run it, it should run pretty smoothly, if not, add a few frameskips. It will be slow on higher res, but the lower is smooth enough to be playable even on my athlon xp 2800+.

[sdl]
fullscreen=true
fulldouble=false
fullfixed=false
output=direct3d
hwscale=1.00
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt

[dosbox]
language=
machine=vga
captures=capture
memsize=63

[render]
frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=none

[cpu]
core=dynamic
cycles=80000
cycleup=500
cycledown=500
timesynched=true
showcycles=true

[mixer]
nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

[midi]
mpu401=true
intelligent=true
device=default
config=

[sblaster]
type=sb16
base=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050

[gus]
gus=false
rate=22050
base=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=3
dma2=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker]
pcspeaker=true
pcrate=22050
tandyrate=22050
disney=false

[bios]

[dos]
xms=true
ems=false

[modem]
modem=false
comport=2
listenport=23

[directserial]
directserial=false
comport=1
realport=COM1
defaultbps=1200
parity=N
bytesize=8
stopbit=1

[ipx]
ipx=false

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