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Prehistorik 2 Freezes

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First post, by deksar

Posted on 2022-11-04, 22:13

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Greetings.

Prehistorik 2 freezes after passing the weird "Yay! My game still works in 2022!" intro, in black screen.

Tried to remove sbinit.com from loading, it helped, and the game started using PC sound.

Unlike Prehistorik 1, there is no GRAWAGA.CFG file to delete, so that the game would start with a sound configuration interface.

Is there any way to change sound card configuration for Pre2?

Best wishes.

Reply 1 of 4, by konc

Posted on 2022-11-05, 08:49

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If I'm not mistaken the game automatically detects the presence of a sound card and there is no way to select.
Also sbinit.com indicates a PCI sound card. Do other DOS games work correctly?

Reply 2 of 4, by deksar

Posted on 2022-11-05, 09:09

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Other games do work correctly, Prince of Persia works flawlessly with all Midi/Sounds.

Reply 3 of 4, by b0by007

Posted on 2022-11-05, 09:51

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Prehistorik 2 is a strange game.
For me, it works with sound on 2 HP clients running windows 98se (HP T5530 and HP T5720), but it freezes at first ingame scene on Fujitsu FUTRO B210 running msdos 6.22 (with or without sound):

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And on original pentium mmx 166 running dos/win95 freezes after the "Yay! My game still works in... - in black screen/restart.
I found some cool manual (dont know if is original or not) with some sound commands to run it, /m, /s, but didnt had time to check it.
https://www.retrogames.cz/manualy/DOS/Prehist … OS_-_Manual.pdf

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Reply 4 of 4, by vico

Posted on 2025-07-12, 05:33

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The options in the manual don't help with the sound issue, however, there is a version of the game that works correctly with sound; it's probably a hacked version. I found it on gamesnostalgia.

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