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First post, by guruman

Posted on 2002-10-21, 01:34

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I'm trying to get BLOOD working under Virtual PC 5 build 350 trial. The parent system is Windows 2000 Professional, under which I've learned (in no small part thanks to this site!) BUILD games are horribly unusable.

I've found that whenever I try to enable digital audio, the 'hardware' initializes but as soon as the setup program tries to put out sound, the emulated DOS4GW crashes taking the setup program with it.

Trying to run the game also crashes out.

Any workarounds? I don't really want to play without sound, and can't see uying the emulator if it doesn't work for these games!

Reply 1 of 4, by DosFreak

Posted on 2002-10-21, 02:00

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Remove all TSR's from your Config.sys & Autoexec.bat.

EMM386 is most likely the culprit. Remove it when playing most DOS4GW games.

Also it's recommended that for the best BUILD gaming experience that you use real DOS.

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Reply 2 of 4, by guruman

Posted on 2002-10-21, 02:57

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Thanks, that seemed to do the trick. Restarting the virtual Windows 98 machine and booting to a DOS prompt only (with the Virtual PC file sharing utility REMmed out) works, although the performance is sketchy at best.

I did try to make a virtual DOS 6.22 machine, but I wasn't able to install the game from the CD-ROM for some reason. The DOS machine wasn't able to read the BLOOD CD properly; very odd. Installing it from Windows worked fine.

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Reply 3 of 4, by DosFreak

Posted on 2002-10-21, 14:07

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Yep, BLOOD will work in VPC but the VESA/Sound will be slow and the sound will be very crappy. You CAN get better sound using Windows XP but it's not worth the upgrade just for blood because you'll still have to use the lowest sound settings in Blood just to get decent performance/quality.

It's best to play the game under real DOS for now. 🙁

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Reply 4 of 4, by guruman

Posted on 2002-10-21, 23:19

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Oh well ... some you win, some you lose. Hopefully I can find *working* DOS drivers for my SBLive! that can act like an SB16 (have my doubts)...

How to get natural DOS is another question. Can't really dual-boot, both of my current partitions are NTFS all the way.

Thanks for the insight.

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