It seems as if the IRQ of the game for soundcard does not match DOSBox's one. Try changing IRQ from 7 to 5. Also, what soundcard did you select for Alone in the dark?

Thanx El_Pusher,

but changing the irq to 5 didnt change a thing 🙁

and about what sound card, its the sb16...

btw my dosbox.conf, in the "sound" section, I have this setup:

[mixer]

nosound=false
rate=11025
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

[midi]

mpu401=true
intelligent=true
device=default
config=

[sblaster]

type=sb16
base=220
irq=5 (thats when I tried the irq=5 as you proposed...before was 7)
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=11025

[gus]

gus=true
rate=11025
base=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=3
dma2=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

Do I have to put the gus to false?? or soundblaster takes over? could there be any "conflict" or something?

Tell me what you think of the config...and do you think I should try sb2 or...?

Thanx again!

Lab

One more thing el_pusher,

if your question about the soundcard meant (which sound card did I choosed when I installed the game), well, I'll have to answer: the one by default, because I actually didnt choose any...

explanation: whenever I try to install the game throught DOSBox, it does not display the text of the menu choices plus it seems I cannot even reach the end of my installation because it sort of freeze on a certain menu...

and if I install throught Win XP, I can click everywhere BUT the graphic display of the text is all screwed up...numbers instead of letters and letters upside down, etc...so I installed, but in the folder by default (which is drive C: and path in \I-motion\ or something...

So if the default sound card is not Sound Blaster, then I would have to know where the SB is at, in the list of soundcard... 😖

Thanx!

Lab

Try disabling GUS for testing purposes and force DOSBox to use a plain old SB 1.0 card.

[sblaster]

type=sb1

Try checking some of them, one at a time

SB1
SB2
SBPRO1
SBPRO2
SB16 {You already tested this one}

Good luck.