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First post, by paraemuladores

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Hi there. I'm trying to rum Creature Shock on DOSBox. I tried modifying every setting in the configuration file that I could think of, like changing the soundboard, adjusting the cycles to 40000, using gravis ultrasound instead of soundblaster, adjusting the irq, dma and hdma, etc. The problem is not the sound itself, it's the fact that the game doesn't detect any sound board in DOSBox. When I open the configuration file, the soundboard and the midi device says "UNDEFINED". And, when I install the game, both from windows and from inside DOSBox itself, it algo says "Soundboard: None" and "Musicboard: None." I do believe that if I can specify in the configuration file the type of soundboard, I could make the sound work, but I don't know how to do that. Any ideas? I'm using DOSBox 0.74, I have a core 2 Quad Q6600, 4 GB of RAM, and a N560GTX video card.

Reply 1 of 1, by truth_deleted

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Post in a dosbox subforum. Here are hints to run the game: Re: Creature Shock - How To Make It Run...

First, try another game to test that sound is working via dosbox. Second, slow down the cycles a lot to verify that sound board detection is not hampered by high cycle count (set cycles=15000). Make sure it isn't abandonware software, too, because that may cause an issue.

Here are the suggested sound settings:
Sound - SoundBlaster 16 (A220,I5,D1)
Music - GeneralMIDI (A330)

This means you would also set IRQ=5 in the dosbox.conf file. See wiki for dosbox.conf for details on these settings.