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Ascendancy - no sound

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First post, by Lago

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Hi folks,
am I doing anything wrong? I just ask because there were no other reports about that problem 😒

Motherboard : Gigabyte GA-K8VT800 Pro
Processor type and speed: Athlon 64 3200+
Amount and type of RAM: 2x 512 MB Corsair PC-400
Video board w/ RAM amount and type: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro, 128 MB
Sound board: Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Operating system: Windows 2000, SP4
Game name (and version, if applicable): Ascendancy 1.8
Reproducibility of problem: Always

Sound mode used: I already tried sb1, 2, sbpro1 , 2 and sb16. Each time I used "setsound" provided by Ascendancy I switched to the proper sound device.
Version of emulatorDOSBox, 0.63

The problem is that I just don't hear any sound at all, I already checked various cycles from 3000 to 22.000, but with no success.
Any ideas?

Reply 1 of 2, by HunterZ

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Wow, thanks for the detailed report. People don't follow the posting guidelines very often around here.

I don't have this game so I can't try to reproduce the problem, but here are a couple things I'd try:
- Check to see if sound works in other games running in DOSBox
- Try a CVS build of DOSBox to see if the issue has been fixed since 0.63 (see the development forum)

Reply 2 of 2, by eL_PuSHeR

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Regarding HunterZ suggestions...

If sound works in other games using DOSBox, try editting dosbox.conf and check IRQ settings from SoundBlaster. You could also try a different sound card like GUS (Gravis UltraSound).

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