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First post, by Muncher666

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Hi there.

I've been using various revisions of DosBox for a long time, but haven't installed the latest version on my new box until now. I'm running XP on a P4 3.0ghz with 1 gig of RAM, all the trimmings and all that. Now, I've been trying to run Gabriel Knight 1 with Vesa enabled, and I have the cpu cycles fairly high (10000) and everything runs smooth as a baby's behind, just one problem - the sound, although clear, every couple of seconds makes this horrible loud bass note like a stereo being turned on and off. It's horribly annoying, any ideas?

Allan.

Reply 1 of 7, by Qbix

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uhm try playing with the sample rate
try 44100 and 48000

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Reply 2 of 7, by Muncher666

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Well, the sound sounds just a little prettier but the horrible thumping noise is still there. It is definitely related to sound samples, as it happens whenever a sound effect (or, at the beginning, the really nice violin music is a wave file, and it also gets the thump treatment at the beginning) is played. I also tried adding extra prebuffer and fiddling with the blocksize, nothing. Any other suggestions? It's as if I'm hearing the sound re-initializing itself over and over and over again.

Allan.

Reply 3 of 7, by eL_PuSHeR

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Maybe you should try selecting a different wave audio device for GK1 in the game setup.

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Reply 4 of 7, by Muncher666

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Cool, thanks - now it's working almost perfectly, the odd speck in the sound, but good. There is an occasional tiny stutter, will pumping up the cpu cycles further correct this, or would I do well to fiddle with the buffering/blocksize/etc settings in DosBox?

Allan.

Reply 5 of 7, by robertmo

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Which sound card was the noisy one. And which one is ok?

Reply 6 of 7, by Muncher666

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Soundblaster was the crappy one, Thunderboard (I believe a SB clone) worked.

Allan.

Reply 7 of 7, by Shed

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i put it...and sounds very old FM Synthesis...then i go to INSTALL.EXE and set the option that say "restart default config from Sierra..." and the sounds enhanced with better MIDI instrumment mapping....

c:\GKCD>Install.exe....

- If you choose Music as Soundblaster Pro sounds like oldiest Indiana Jones music....if you want more quality on music ....choose General MIDI sound Driver...