rosenrot wrote:

After doing some searching here, I learned that slowing down the emulation speed might help, and it did, but now the game crashes when I'm in combat and attempting to fire on a valid target.

Ah, wait. I didn't play The Grandest Fleet, but is the game supposed to play sample sound when you fire on a valid target? What IRQ does the game use for sound blaster? And is it the same with the IRQ being set in dosbox.conf? The default in dosbox.conf is IRQ 7 (common for SB/SBPro); you should check whether you set the game's IRQ to 5 when installing it (common habit for SB16 user).

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Ah, wait. I didn't play The Grandest Fleet, but is the game supposed to play sample sound when you fire on a valid target? What IRQ does the game use for sound blaster? And is it the same with the IRQ being set in dosbox.conf? The default in dosbox.conf is IRQ 7 (common for SB/SBPro); you should check whether you set the game's IRQ to 5 when installing it (common habit for SB16 user).

The game plays a sound when firing on a target, yes.

I didn't configure the sound system manually, auto detection said it worked. I'll attempt your suggestion.

Sometimes the game still crashes when moving into visual range of an enemy, however. I wonder what causes that?

EDIT: I reconfigured the sound device manually, but it does not give me the option to set the IRQ. I also can't find any record of what it sets to by default. I'll have to employ google. 😀

Thank you very much, Kreshna. My problem is solved. The sound IRQ being set to 7 in the DOSBox config was causing the crashes.

i have the same problem except the setup file selects midi sound. I'm on a 32bit Vista system. Everything works fine in the game until it detects an enemy unit, then freezes. The home screen also will freeze if i dont select an option (i.e. Start Game, Start Campaign, etc.) within a few seconds. I'm also using d-fend reloaded 1.0.3 on the front end and I;ve used every template it has and changed every option I could in the cpu and graphics options. REALLY wanna play!

Based on what rosenrot says above, you could try changing DosBox's SB IRQ to 5, maybe the game expects it there...

I've got it figured out. It seems to be an issue with the digital sound driver. If I run the set-up file manually and choose "no digital sound" and then select the "mp401 midi driver" the game runs w/music but no sound fx...but who wants to play that way. So I tried each digital driver one by one but none seemed to function. For some reason though, if I run the set-up file with the game running a few of the digital drivers seemed to work. I chose one, then closed the game(s) and when I restarted it seemed to function properly. It also seems to run best if I set the cpu cycles between 5000 and 5500. Hope this helps someone.

Which one?

ah...i dont remember specifically. When u run the setup file and choose a driver it will test it. The prompt will say "playing music twice" then ask if it played correctly. Some of the drivers, when chosen, returned a "failed to initialize" prompt and some of them only played once then froze. When that happened I had to restart the setup file. I imagine that the type of sound card you have will determine which one works. I just selected the first one that played music twice, but I had messed it with it for so long that I dont remember which one worked on my machine and I dont really want to re-run the setup file in case I cant get it working again 😉