Does LOADFIX help?

ripsaw8080 wrote on 2020-04-22, 15:54:

Does LOADFIX help?

Looks like

1loadfix -f

fixes the problem. Thanks!

Actually while we're here, I have another issue when running one game after another. After running a CD-ROM game in Windows 3.1 (Wiggins in Storyland), and then returning to the DOS prompt, there are a bunch of DOS games that lose audio. I checked the mixer and it looks like Wiggins adds CDAUDIO (or, mounting the CD probably does) and turns SB and FM down to 58/100. I tried boosting these back up to 100 and turning CDAUDIO down to zero, but the DOS games still have missing audio. There's no way a game could be changing any of the audio configs right? Other than the mixer I'm not sure what else to check.

The volume can indeed be changed by software through the SB mixer, and using an sbmixer=false setting prevents it. However, you have to just try it and see if the result is preferable, because a game could be using the volume control for fades or intentional silencing, and you'll lose that kind of thing.

But the mixer probably isn't the issue, since the audio was still missing when I manually set it back to 100. When I said the game can't change audio configs, I meant the audio settings in dosbox.conf. But if it's not the mixer, and it's not the config, I'm not sure what else audio-related could be changing after the game is run.

I'm explaining that the game is overriding what you do manually, so use the setting to prevent it from doing that. 😉

Oh, sorry I should have been clear: I reset the mixer in between running the two games, so I wouldn't expect the first game to have any further effect on the mixer (unless there's something other than volume level at play that I can't see).
Here's an approximation of the sequence:

1mixer
2MASTER 100:100
3SPKR 100:100
4SB 100:100
5FM 100:100
6
7game2.exe
8(game 2 runs fine)
9
10imgmount d C:\dosbox\game1.cue -t iso -fs iso
11win C:\runexit\runexit.exe C:\game1\game1.exe 
12(game 1 runs fine)
13
14game2.exe
15(game2 has no sound)
16
17mixer
18MASTER 100:100
19SPKR 100:100
20CDAUDIO: 100:100
21SB 58:58
22FM 58:58
23
24mixer SB 100
25mixer FM 100
26
27game2.exe
28(game2 has no sound)

Well, it seems game1 is, beyond altering volume, leaving the SB in a problematic state. Do try an SVN build, as some fixes were made. Also, maybe changing the SB type to what it already is can help because it causes a reset (i.e. "sbtype=sb16" as a command between games).

ripsaw8080 wrote on 2020-04-23, 21:01:

Also, maybe changing the SB type to what it already is can help because it causes a reset (i.e. "sbtype=sb16" as a command between games).

This did the trick! Thank you for your help and for being patient with me.

And thanks in general for your work on Dosbox and your presence in these forums. For every issue I post about here there's 10 others that I find the answer for on a years-old Vogons thread and you usually have something to do with it 😁