my computer is an hp pavilion a1540n, dual core 2ghz processor. i am using windows xp media edition and i am using dosbox version 0.72. i know of no sound card in my system. usually when i am configuring the setups for other dos games, Soundblaster works.
however when i try to install the 7th guest (dos version) everything seems ok, but when i play the game, i get problems. here is what i do:
i mount the second disc in a virtual drive. (j:\)
i open up dosbox and type "mount d j:\ -t cdrom -ioctl"
"mscdex installed. drive d mounted as cdrom j:"
"mount c c:\7guest"
"drive c is mounted as local directory c:\guest\" (the folder i want to install in.)
"z:\>c:
C:\>D:
D:\>dir /w
After this i see all the files on disc number 2. i see the readmes the versions and most importantly, INSTALL.BAT
D:\>install
i see the menus for installing the game, i hit enter for install, it tells me it will install the 7th guest on my drive. i press any key to continue. i select the c:\ drive at the list for drives to install on. it will be installed in c:\7guest\id\t7g\. it says my cdrom drive is fast enough to run the game. the game then tests my video speed. the test results reccommend i use svga for 486 based machines. the other choice is mcga. 9 select svga and continue. now to the sound cards. the menu shows "soundblaster pro 2" for both
music and speech. i can't for whatever reason change it to any other soundblaster. i want both to be just "soundblaster" because that one works with all other games i have. but when i try to select what i want it just keeps going back to soundblaster pro 2. the only way i can change the sound cards is if i select a totally different music card, like general midi. i have never used general midi or anything but SB, and after my problem happens, when i try to boot the program again it says "sound drivers cannot be loaded" so i think that might be the problem, but i digress. so just for fun i go with SB pro 2 for the speech and music. the application copies the files o my hard drive and now it gives me the option of playing the game. so i type t7g at the prompt and press enter. it asks me to insert disc 1, so i go to daemon tools, (my virtual drive) and i load the first iso into j:\ drive. i click on the picture on the screen of the first disc. i am brought to the main menu and i select "start game". (i have tried this many times before, and if i don't insert the 2nd cd again while I'm at the main menu, windows will give me an error saying that i need to insert volume 2 of the 7th guest.) so i insert the 2nd cd before i click "start game". no error message. i see the opening advertisements for virgin and trylobyte, but i hear no sound. i am treated to a FMV intro about a crazy toy maker. this, i hear sound and speech in, so that's good. in the last video scene, when he is standing in front of his house, the video craps out and says that:
GJD file system error - aborting.
c:\id\t7g
and that was that. this is as far as i have been able to get.. i shall try that "groovie.ini thing in another post, but i am not hopeful.
ok i have done exactly what ripsaw 8080 said to so with the GROOVIE.INI file, but a message comes up stating that none of the sound cards i pick seem to be responding at their defaults or the settings i have them set at. i might have hardware conflict. i literally have no functioning sound cards whatsoever.
ok. so can somebody help me now?
thanks for your time,
Skwatter,
Andrew