VOGONS


Sound issue

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First post, by banasw01

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1. Motherboard
K9N Neo
2. Processor type and speed
Processor 0: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Processor 1: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
3. Amount and type of RAM
4 Gigabyes of Ram
4. Video board w/ RAM amount and type
GPUs: GeForece 9800 GT 1024 MB
5. Sound board
Realtek ALC883
Flexible 8-channel audio with jack sensing
Compliant with Azalia 1.0 Spec
6. Operating system
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid 32bit
Kernel 2.6.32-24-generic
7. Game name (and version, if applicable)
Doom 1 Full Version
Quake 1 Full Version
8. Description of problem (be detailed: saying "it's jerky" doesn't help, saying "the player sprites seem to be jerky when I'm pressing any of the arrow keys" does)
Both games play great except the sounds is distorted. In Doom both sound effects and music are distorted.
9. Reproducibility of problem (always, only once, always but only on a specific level, etc.)
Always
10. Sound mode used
Default
11. Video mode (Software, OpenGL, Direct3D, or Glide, and resolution)
Software
12. Version of emulator (for VDMSound, probably 2.0.4 or 2.1.0; for DOSBox, 0.58+)
Dosbox 0.73
13. Steps already attempted to solve the problem (please say you've read the README if you haven't, and READ IT IF YOU HAVEN'T!)
I read the troubleshooting section in /usr/share/doc/dosbox/README.gz
I changed sound setting from sb16 to sb in dosbox-0.73.conf file, but that did not change anything, I still had distorted sound.

Reply 1 of 5, by Dominus

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newer version might help

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper