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Sound problems with warcraft 2

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First post, by markmasters

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Hello,

first of all, Dosbox is great! finally i can play those old games again.

Secondly, I can't seem to get the sound fo warcraft 2 to work correctly, the units work fine with sounds but as music i can only get the low quality midi music. While the game states that my sound card works perfectly during the installation.

I never had this problem before with the original cd (which i still use). So i guess it has to do something with dosbox....anyone has a clue?

Thanks in advance

Reply 1 of 3, by Tertz

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Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness?
What music card are you choosing in the game's setup?

I never had this problem before with the original cd (which i still use).

Wich music card did you use on real hardware with wich you compare the emulation?

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Reply 3 of 3, by dr_st

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To get DOSBox to play CD audio from an actual CD, the CD needs to be in the drive, and you need to mount it properly, with CD audio support, e.g.:
mount g f:\ -t cdrom -ioctl_dx
where F: is the actual CD drive letter in your PC, and G: is the drive letter you want to assign in DOSBox.

Then, to have CD Audio in Warcraft II, you need to enable it in the sound options menu (F7 during a game).

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