Re: Syndicate/Syndicate Wars

Posted on 2003-02-10, 01:27

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by Nicht Sehr Gut

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Hate to tell you bad news, but last I had heard there was no satisfactory way of running this on a Modern PC. This is especially true for XP. Unless you want to set up a dual-boot, I know of no way to run this in XP with audio (and even the dual-boot does not guarantee functionality). Go to the top …

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Re: Glidos screen in Red Baron

Posted on 2003-02-10, 01:03

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Deja Vu all over again... Close RB, go to your RB folder and delete RBPREFS.DAT. Then, open RB and set all your favourite preferences but don't fly, and don't close RB. Press Alt-Tab to get back to the desktop without closing RB, go to your RB folder, right-click on RBPREFS.DAT (Red Baron will have …

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Re: Duke3D FAQ

Posted on 2003-02-10, 00:53

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Originally posted by DosFreak http://www.pacifist.co.uk/duke/agd.txt"Parts by Colin Snover ( http://www.vogons.org/ )" *Harumph* Where's me and Vlad? Also, he forgot to mention the right-click "Run with VDMS" option (less resource-hungry than the "brute force" bug-fix).

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Re: Blood problems

Posted on 2003-02-10, 00:48

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Hrmmm. This still doesn't seem right. You shouldn't have needed CLI2Nop. Keep an eye out for other titles that work properly on other systems, but not on yours...

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Re: Multiple CD drives in WinXP = no CD audio in Windows games?

Posted on 2003-02-10, 00:42

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Originally posted by HunterZ What would MSCDEX have to do with a Windows game? My goof. The problem is similar to some DOS access problems we've see So I started thinking in DOS terms. EDIT: Okay you were right, Nicht. One of my virtual drives wasn't set to a higher letter, and when I changed it, …

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Re: System Shock SVGA problems

Posted on 2003-02-10, 00:36

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Originally posted by acroig BTW, which version of DOS4GW do you use? 1.9? Actually, I haven't needed to use "DOS4GW trick". Not sure why this is.. As for which version, all other things being equal, I would you use the highest version #. If that doesn't work for you try the others...

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Re: Connectix Virtual PC (VPC)

Posted on 2003-02-07, 18:59

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Originally posted by Van Zan I was hoping to use VPC to get Star Trek JR and Final Unity running better than they run on my XP machine (actually ST:JR has no sound and Final Unity doesnt run at all). The number of games that run well in VPC (that normally don't run well in 2000/XP) are few and far- …

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Re: Gaming problems with Ultima 8

Posted on 2003-02-07, 18:23

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Unfortunately, as discussed in this thread showthread.php?threadid=1040 , nobody seems to have a smoothly running Ultima 8 on a modern PC with an NT OS.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Is it possible to modify a running process?

Posted on 2003-02-07, 18:17

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Originally posted by MajorGrubert Only debuggers should benefit from this. It should not be a compatibility issue. I do not use Windows XP at home so I never had a chance to investigate if it gives any unusual admin privileges for regular users, Wasn't referring to the Debugger/Attachment portion …

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Re: Death Rally & Solar Winds

Posted on 2003-02-07, 18:10

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Originally posted by Qbix I remember both games working fine with dosbox. (Well at least the Death rally thing(as I see know that Solar winds is from 93..... so that might be tricky) Eh? I'm confident that Solar Winds doesn't use a protected mode as it will run on DosBox without any "unsupported" …

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Re: Blood problems

Posted on 2003-02-07, 18:00

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by Nicht Sehr Gut

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Originally posted by Aspie_Boi Well I'll try CLI2NOP and see if that helps,... Just remember that CLI2Nop will decrease it's stability. I was able to get reasonable performance until just recently in BLOOD. I have no idea as to why there's been a drop in performance. BTW, there's been some …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3d mit VDMS

Posted on 2003-02-07, 17:41

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by Nicht Sehr Gut

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http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=de Please read all the information in this BUILD Games post: Lesen Sie bitte alle Informationen in diesem BUILD Games Pfosten: showthread.php?threadid=726

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Re: Running in a window

Posted on 2003-02-07, 17:37

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BTW, Last I had heard there was no satisfactory way of running this on a Modern PC. showthread.php?threadid=418

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Re: How to make KQ5's audio to work

Posted on 2003-02-07, 17:27

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Originally posted by Unregistered Thanks but where is the Dos forum?? Go o the main page of VOGONS: [url]http://www.vogons.org,[/url] then scroll down the page and you'll see a list of all the VOGONS forums. Under "The Guide", you'll see: DOS Getting old DOS games working

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Re: Strife

Posted on 2003-02-07, 17:22

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Originally posted by Unregistered ...read the thread you refered me to and did everything i could, still locks up. All i have is the latest version of VDM installed (No seperate updates, cant find any anyway) and the Launchpad. Go back and re-read the thread and you will find under Solution #2 a …

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Re: Strife

Posted on 2003-02-07, 06:58

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Originally posted by Unregistered XP Proffesional... Basically go to the Problem Children thread and read the BUILD Games post, starting from Common Problem #3 . Basically, everything there applies to Strife. I have used CLI2NOP before on Duke3d and Shadow Warrior Would it work for Strife too? I …

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Re: Sauro Puccini releases MSCDEX replacement for WinNT/2k/XP

Posted on 2003-02-07, 06:43

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Originally posted by vladr Files will always be read correctly... It lives...

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Re: Blood problems

Posted on 2003-02-07, 06:42

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Originally posted by Aspie_Boi **However this problem only occurs with SFX enabled, turn it off and the game runs perfectly... Yep. That's because the way it processes sound is the source of the problem. If dropping to minimum quality didn't help, there is precious little left to do. You could try …

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Re: How to make KQ5's audio to work

Posted on 2003-02-07, 06:31

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Originally posted by Unregistered If I use the original audblast from the CD and patch it with gosierra the dos version will play speech (but not in-game music unless MT-32 is selected which sounds half decent but not good enough). Until full-blown PC emulation arrives, it may have to do... Any …

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Re: How to make KQ5's audio to work

Posted on 2003-02-07, 06:21

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Originally posted by Snover Um, hm, well, if you select the "SoundBlaster Pro" in the VDMSound control panel does it work? No. Tried all the different modes...no change.

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