Which video card? Which sound card? Explore various video/audio options in the setup program.

dr_st wrote:

Which video card? Which sound card? Explore various video/audio options in the setup program.

I'm using a Sound Blaster AWE64 Sound Card and a ATIMach64 2MB PCI Video Card
I even tried to run it with the sound card driver disabled

Search for rayman here. I think something similar came up regarding Dosbox and Rayman and the solution might be helpful for pure Dos as well.

Is this the CD version?

Jorpho wrote:

Is this the CD version?

Yes

So, do you have CD-ROM drivers installed when you run the game from DOS? Even if you've installed the game to your hard drive, it will still need to access the CD-ROM for the music.

Jorpho wrote:

So, do you have CD-ROM drivers installed when you run the game from DOS? Even if you've installed the game to your hard drive, it will still need to access the CD-ROM for the music.

Yes I have CD-ROM Drivers installed for DOS
But no matter what, CD or no CD, its always stuck in the text mode loading screen that tells the version number and everything or it will display random text in the black spot of the screen while making loud PC Speaker noise.

I wonder if it would help if I listed the settings I used to get into MS-DOS Mode (Its configured so that I can use all 3 memory modes

CONFIG.SYS Settings

1[COMMON]
2DOS=NOAUTO
3DOS=HIGH,UMB
4FILES=10
5BUFFERS=10
6LASTDRIVE=D
7DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\SETVER.EXE
8
9[menu]
10menuitem=EMC, Expanded memory + Mouse + CD-ROM
11menuitem=XMC, Extended memory + Mouse + CD-ROM
12menuitem=CMC, Conventional Memory only + Mouse + CD-ROM
13menuitem=EM, Expanded memory + Mouse
14menuitem=XM, Extended memory + Mouse
15menuitem=CM, Conventional memory only + Mouse
16
17menudefault=EMC,10
18
19[EMC]
20DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
21DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM
22DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRIVERS\VIDECDD.SYS /D:OPTICAL
23
24[XMC]
25DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
26DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRIVERS\VIDECDD.SYS /D:OPTICAL
27
28[CMC]
29DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRIVERS\VIDECDD.SYS /D:OPTICAL
30
31[EM]
32DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
33DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM
34
35[XM]
36DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
37
38[CM]

AUTOEXEC.BAT Settings

1SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
2SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
3SET PROMPT=$p$g
4SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS
5SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
6LH C:\DRIVERS\CTMOUSE.EXE /R2
7GoTo %config%
8:EMC
9:XMC
10:CMC
11LH C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D: OPTICAL
12:EM
13:XM
14:CM
15LH C:\DRIVERS\CTMOUSE.EXE /R2
16:E
17:X
18:C
19SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 E620
20SET SOUND=C:\SB16
21SET CTCM=C:\CTCM
22C:\CTCM\CTCM.EXE
23C:\SB16\AWEUTIL.COM /S
24C:\SB16\MIXERSET.EXE /P /Q

I just hope its not due to bad RAM because another machine I have also hangs on that text mode loading screen under DOS also and also only runs the game under Windows also

Try 64VBE, or alternatively Scitech Display Doctor. (They should pretty much do the same thing.)
http://www.dosdriver.de/graph.php

If that doesn't work, maybe NOLFB will help, but that's a long shot.
NOLFB - Disables LFB enabling DOS games to fallback to VESA 1.2 modes

Well, after switching to a Sound Blaster 16 card, the game finally runs under DOS, however there seems to be alot of long pauses (After the UbiSoft logo, its a long wait till the animation appears and then where its supposed to fade to the main menu there's a very long pause also before it happens.
So far, running under Windows appears to be the best option but I did get closer now after switching the AWE64 out for a Sound Blaster 16.

CompuClassics wrote:

Well, after switching to a Sound Blaster 16 card, the game finally runs under DOS, however there seems to be alot of long pauses (After the UbiSoft logo, its a long wait till the animation appears and then where its supposed to fade to the main menu there's a very long pause also before it happens.
So far, running under Windows appears to be the best option but I did get closer now after switching the AWE64 out for a Sound Blaster 16.

Do you still have your CD-ROM drive connected internally to your sound card?

I have the impression that the game may have problems even on real hardware and will occasionally start running unplayably fast for no discernible reason, and that the aformentioned NOLFB is the only remedy. But I'm really not sure on the details. (Someone should look into it.)

Jorpho wrote:

CompuClassics wrote:

Well, after switching to a Sound Blaster 16 card, the game finally runs under DOS, however there seems to be alot of long pauses (After the UbiSoft logo, its a long wait till the animation appears and then where its supposed to fade to the main menu there's a very long pause also before it happens.
So far, running under Windows appears to be the best option but I did get closer now after switching the AWE64 out for a Sound Blaster 16.

Do you still have your CD-ROM drive connected internally to your sound card?

I have the impression that the game may have problems even on real hardware and will occasionally start running unplayably fast for no discernible reason, and that the aformentioned NOLFB is the only remedy. But I'm really not sure on the details. (Someone should look into it.)

Yes, I still have the Sound Card Connected to the CD Drive:)

OK, so I swapped my hard drive for the original 2.5GB one and installed MS-DOS 6.22 and apparently Rayman actually works underthere (Only thing that was kinda different was that I had a S3 Trio64V2 installed)
I'm gonna test again with the original ATI Mach64 card to see if its just the video card or just the way I have Windows 98SE setted up

maybe the Problem is related to FAT16 or 32, or Size of Partition between Dos 6.22 and Win98.

Maybe it"s the version Number Dos reports?