Can you try it without sound?

Thank you for the advice, but unfortunately, it didn't work.. I set up midi and digital devices to "none" in the game's setup and deactivated digi and midi support in VDMS. It played nicely, then was killed. Not to mention gameplay suffers than (can't hear enemies and a real lack of atmosphere..).

If you meant by running the game without VDMS-that's not possible. I need the VESA support (VDMS refuses to run the game until the basic vesa support is enabled). I hope that gives some more information on this case.

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Running without VDMS is actually possible. The sound is choppy but it's ok. The worst thing however is that it still crashes without a warning. 🙁

Did you try using DOS32A extender? I once used it to run Skynet in hi-res in WinXP, also worked to get hi-res in Future Shock through Skynet. You should be carefull though, somewhere on this forum I have read that hi-res in Skynet can blow your monitor. 😅

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As for not running without low level vesa in VDMS, you should run game in fullscreen, that fixes it. 😀

Yeah, enable basic VESA support in VDMSound is just a MISNOMER. It just means running FULLSCREEN. Nothing to do with VESA bios extensions.

PS - I still don't know if the game crashed when you were running it without sound. If it didn't, then you should try a different music/sound effects combination.

Thanks for your suggestion, but it doesn't seem to have improved anything, sadly. I've followed the Dos32A way and it still lags as hell, however, in Dos Box's case I think it's something to do with memory. The loading screen is extremely long and the damn thing uses all my processor's power.

If Dosbox ran faster, the problem would've been solved. I forced myself to play a bit of the slideshow, and it hasn't crashed for 30 minutes. Surely there must be some way to speed the thing up..?

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eL_PuSHeR wrote:

I still don't know if the game crashed when you were running it without sound. If it didn't, then you should try a different music/sound effects combination.

It has crashed, without the sound. I don't think it's the issue as System Shock, ran on VDMS, tends to do the same. Only less often. (i.e. crash most unexpectedly without an excuse)