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Shadow Warrior - No Music?

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First post, by mrkaki

Posted on 2009-07-12, 12:49

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Earlier today I noticed I still have the Shadow Warrior CD, so I installed it, installed the patches and tried running it - everything worked fine but in an unplayable FPS.
So I tried using DOSBOX and almost everything works fine with a very playable FPS, but there's only one problem, a big one: I'm missing the music.

The sound works fine. I emulated the sound driver Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 with the IRQ at 7, 8-bit DMA at 1 and 16-bit DMA at 5.

Can I fix this problem? Ifso, how?

Reply 1 of 8, by MiniMax

Posted on 2009-07-12, 12:50

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Did you re-install from within DOSBox?

Reply 2 of 8, by mrkaki

Posted on 2009-07-12, 12:54

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Uh, no. Hang on, let me try.

Edit: Okay, it's installing at the moment. A lot slower than when I installed it through Windows XP

Reply 3 of 8, by MiniMax

Posted on 2009-07-12, 13:14

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ALT-F12 I think is the DOSBox "turbo" button (all explained in the README *hint*).

Reply 4 of 8, by mrkaki

Posted on 2009-07-12, 13:32

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Argh. It always freezed on 27%, so I tried burning the CD in case it was due to scratches, but it's copyrighted so the burner won't allow me.
Now I'm trying to copy the files to the computer and see what happens.

Hey, this disc is 12 years old!
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Computer scratched the disc to death. The disc worked a few hours ago, now it doesn't.
I declare the death date of Shadow Warrior the 12th of July, 2009. May it rest in peace.

Reply 5 of 8, by ripa

Posted on 2009-07-12, 16:29

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ALT-F12 I think is the DOSBox "turbo" button (all explained in the README *hint*).

Slightly offtopic, but how does the turbo function interact with cycles=max?

Reply 6 of 8, by wd

Posted on 2009-07-12, 16:34

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Not-that-good (depends on what value the guessing code last chose).

Reply 7 of 8, by ripa

Posted on 2009-07-12, 16:44

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Am I right that advancing time in dosbox via turbo works the fastest with the lowest amount of emulated cycles?

Reply 8 of 8, by leileilol

Posted on 2009-07-13, 06:43

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Perhaps the disc is so bad, it made Windows XP be stupid and force the access mode for your drive to PIO mode forever? (Crippling your CPU power too much for the 'safest' transfer) Try to force Ultra DMA on your optical drive.

long live PCem

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