Glidos doesn't wear out. 😁

If you haven't changed a setting, then its something in your system that has changed - an automatic update or similar.

Your best bet is to use VDos32. That will isolate Redguard from system changes.

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I already said I know there was no changes between the game working and not working. I thought maybe the screenshot could tell something of the problem. "Doesn't Bad command or file name" indicate something?

I did reinstall redguard and glidos again so I understand that the problem must likely be in my system since I know that originally for me Redguard and GliDOS were running perfectly. I just don't know why it isn't now 🙁

If you disregard that I said there were no system changes and somebody has just freshly installed their game (Redguard in this case) and GliDOS, has set it up as correctly as they could but gets my symptoms described above what would you recommend?

I'll definitely give VDos32 a try if you think it could help. I thought it was only for Vista operating systems but thanks 😀

EDIT: Thanks for recommending VDos32 it's given me back gameplay! I was disappointed with your reply at first glance but you've made my day! Now I just need to get the background music working again and I'll be all set.

I think there might be a problem with getting the background music working under VDos32. Glad you mentioned that: something I need to work on.

Ah that's disappointing. I used to get the BGM before it all went bad. I suppose I can just play the game without. If you have any ideas about that I'll keep checking this thread and the forums. 😀

It shouldn't be too difficult to put some redbook CD support into VDos32. It's just finding the time to do it.

I get frequent crashes with Glidos and VDos32 unfortunately. Sometimes it causes the entire OS to freeze but this time I got an error message. Maybe it means something to you.

ERROR!(40) Error during 3D manager build.

Source file information available
===============================================================================
Occured in 3dobjman.c
At line 417
Program terminated successfully

Oh yeah, I get crashes with Redguard under VDos32, only when going in or out of a building though. I got into a habbit of saving before changing location. It's annoying: I haven't been able to track down the cause. Do you get crashes in other places?

I've never had it freeze the OS. That shouldbn't be possible. VDos32 should isolate you from that sort of problem. <CTR><ESC> and <CTR><ALT><DEL> not get you out?

The OS freezing happened once that I remember but maybe it was just something else. Yeah it is just when entering in and out of buildings. Not really worth trying to play if that is always happening though.

Hmmm, I played the whole game like that. I just saved before changing location.

It is something I'd like to fix, but it's going to be extremely difficult to track down. It could be a bug in the game itself that shows up in one DOS environment but not another. Or I could have just one case of enulating an instruction wrong in VDos32.

Going back to running without VDos32, honestly 99.999% it has to be something changed on your computer. It worked then it didn't: that's a change in itself.

If it were Glidos, it would have to be a change in Glidos since you installed it. How would that happen. It's much more likely, by a huge factor, that Windows has taken it upon itself to alter something. My computer today decided on it's own to reconfigure audio from 5.1 to stereo. It does that every few months - go figure.

Yeah I believe you about Windows changing something. I just don't know what.

I suppose it's worth trying a change to the VESASupport setting, but I doubt if it will help.

My latest computer wont run any of the games supported by Glidos without the use of VDos32.

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My latest computer wont run any of the games supported by Glidos without the use of VDos32.

Mine's 5 years old and I will be upgrading soon. Does this mean I need to keep my old PC to do TRX texturing?

Hope not. Do you have a problem with VDos32?

I upgraded my computer recently (Dual Core processor, Radeon HD3850) and on XP SP2 everything works fine with Glidos and TR1 - textures, audio pack work flawlessly. Just noticed that anisotropic filtering (set in Catalyst drivers) is not working with TR1 but I really can't remember if it worked on my previous rig.

Paul -> Did you look at the attachment to the first post? It looks that VDMSound file is not loaded due to either too long name in access path or VDMSound not correctly installed. This is probably the reason why the game doesn't start.

I obviously didn't look very intently. Nice one Zebius.

Shinra, Zebius is right: your jpg shows DOSDRV failing, which suggests VDMSound is not installed correctly.

Hmm, ok. I think I might reinstall Redguard, GliDOS and VDMSound again and see if that helps. 😀

Edit: And of course it did 😵

I thought posting that screenshot could help. Thanks until something else crops up!

Maybe just reinstalling VDMSound will do it.

Glidos wrote:

Oh yeah, I get crashes with Redguard under VDos32, only when going in or out of a building though. I got into a habbit of saving before changing location. It's annoying: I haven't been able to track down the cause. Do you get crashes in other places?

I've never had it freeze the OS. That shouldbn't be possible. VDos32 should isolate you from that sort of problem. <CTR><ESC> and <CTR><ALT><DEL> not get you out?

I believe this is fixed now in v0.8b of VDos32, which is included with v1.43 of Glidos.