I've been having problems with sound in Discworld II. The sound breaks up and is filled with static.
I've noticed a bit of static on a few other games, but nothing this bad. Is there anything I can try to improve things?
Are there any patches for this game?
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Yes, but it doesn't help. I'm using patch#3 (the last one released).
I switched the game's audio from SB16 to SB Pro and that cleared up the static.
And this is with DOSBox 0.72 ?
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please test if setting the samplerates in dosbox.conf to 44100 works as well
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Yes, this is with Dosbox 0.72
Using SB16 with sample rate 44100 seems to work better than 22050, but does not eliminate all the static.
I take that last statement back.
After changing the sample rate, the first time I launched the game I swore it still had some static in the sound, but later tries have not had any, so I guess it works.
The sound still has some annyoing 'glitches' that seem to occur randomly during the character speech. Occaisionally a bit a dialog will be chopped off by a short 'squeak' or 'screech' sound. Both Discworld games do this, although it seems more pronounced in the second game. It doesn't seem to be affected by which SB card type you select.
finally another game that is fixed by the rate up.
Can you post a listing of all files of discworlkd II (+dates +size)
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Following is a listing of the installed files (ignore the two save files at the end). Unfortunately the timestamps only show when you installed the game, not the true modified dates on the CDs. The dwb.exe file on CD#1 should have a size of 1,167,881 bytes and a timestamp of November 28, 1996, 12:09:48 AM. In the latest patch (#3), the dwb.exe file will have a size of 1,168,941 bytes and a timestamp of February 25, 1997, 2:14:24 PM. (The dwb.exe file is the only file replaced by the patch).
(A bit of trivia: I've imaged over 150 CDs for use on Dosbox, but the two Discworld II CDs are the only Mode2 discs I've encountered.)
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Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 7C7F-F56F
Directory of C:\DW2
03/11/2008 04:12 PM <DIR> .
03/11/2008 04:12 PM <DIR> ..
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 11,278 ADRV688.DIG
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 7,841 AILDRVR.LST
03/11/2008 04:12 PM <DIR> CACHE
03/18/2008 07:32 PM 188 DIG.INI
03/18/2008 07:32 PM 32 DOSCONF
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 16 DW2.BAT
03/07/2008 03:58 PM 1,168,941 DWB.EXE
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 72,043 ENGINS.IMJ
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 183 INSTALLD.INF
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 725 INSTALLF.LST
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 3,219 JAMMER.DIG
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 2,127 PROAUDIO.DIG
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 2,849 RAP10.DIG
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 256 RM.DRV
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 3,242 SAMPLE.AD
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 10,780 SAMPLE.BNK
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 3,242 SAMPLE.OPL
03/11/2008 04:12 PM <DIR> SAVE
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 2,836 SB16.DIG
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 3,125 SBLASTER.DIG
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 2,763 SBPRO.DIG
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 408,163 SETSOUND.EXE
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 346,795 SETUP.EXE
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 4,171 SNDSCAPE.DIG
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 3,332 SNDSYS.DIG
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 308,278 TITLEDOS.BMP
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 9,478 ULTRA.DIG
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 256,082 UNINSTLL.EXE
03/07/2008 03:54 PM 12,317 UNIVBE.DRV
03/07/2008 03:54 PM 20,513 UVCONFIG.DAT
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 269,682 UVCONFIG.EXE
29 File(s) 2,934,497 bytes
Directory of C:\DW2\CACHE
03/11/2008 04:12 PM <DIR> .
03/11/2008 04:12 PM <DIR> ..
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 745,345 CDCHANGE.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 5,789 LUG01.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 12,029 LUG02.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 20,437 LUG03.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 30,325 LUG04.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 41,653 LUG05.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 54,069 LUG06.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 67,581 LUG07.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 82,105 LUG08.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 97,469 LUG09.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 112,449 LUG10.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 22,377 RW01.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 52,033 RW02.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 94,249 RW03.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 140,733 RW04.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 189,581 RW05.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 245,957 RW06.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 294,749 RW07.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 351,645 RW08.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 418,025 RW09.SCN
03/07/2008 03:53 PM 462,993 RW10.SCN
21 File(s) 3,541,593 bytes
Directory of C:\DW2\SAVE
03/11/2008 04:12 PM <DIR> .
03/11/2008 04:12 PM <DIR> ..
03/18/2008 04:03 PM 78,032 SG.1
03/18/2008 04:03 PM 78,032 SG.2
2 File(s) 156,064 bytes
Total Files Listed:
52 File(s) 6,632,154 bytes
8 Dir(s) 203,526,647,808 bytes free
