First post, by Unofficial Ghost
Hi, I'm looking for some help to get the effects & voice sounds working in the DOS game Reunion: https://www.mobygames.com/game/597/reunion/
My specs are:
W98 SE
Pentium 4 2.66
AsRock P4i65G
512MB RAM
Audigy 2 ZS
GeForce FX 5900 XT
Here's where I'm at: I've just reinstalled a fresh copy of Windows 98 SE, and before testing the game only installed motherboard (chipset/usb), GPU & sound card drivers & DirectX 90c.
For the sound card I used this guide to successfully setup/install my Audigy 2 ZS, following each step apart from section (7), which I don't need at the moment: Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Audigy cards (version 3.1)
I installed the game to my hard drive, and I'm running it from the desktop, it runs well, but the only sound I'm getting is the music.
I found this Q&A about this issue in the game manual:
Q. I cannot here any digitized sound such as speech and effects during the game, only music. […]
Q. I cannot here any digitized sound such as speech and effects
during the game, only music.A. You have incorrectly configured the IRQ number in the SETUP
program. For most Soundblaster cards the IRQ number is usually 7 or 5. If
you have chosen 7, change to 5 and vice versa. If this does not work,
consult your Soundblaster manual for more details or look at the SET
BLASTER= line in your Autoexec.bat file.
So I tried changing the IRQ number in the Setup.Exe, trying both 5 & 7, but neither resolved the issue. In the Setup.exe there's 4 settings in total. I kept the rest of the settings the same whilst trying each IRQ number, and set them as:
1: Sound Blaster Pro
2: I/O: 220h
3: Interrupt number: 5/7
4: DMA: 1
I checked the SET BLASTER= line in AutoExec.Bat (the default was set to 7), then ran Edit C:\AutoExec.Bat and changed it to 5, hit save, and tried running the game again... but no luck with that either.
As a last ditch effort I tried running the game directly from the CD, but that just resulted in there being no sound at all. Thought about running it from pure DOS mode, for no other reason than something else to try, but yet to test that & ultimately would prefer to run from the desktop.
I'm totally out of my depth here tbh. If you guys could chuck some ideas my way that might do the trick, that would be great!