First post, by Apples555
I have an AWE64 Value ISA card in a Win 98 MMX233 Voodoo3 box.
For the life of me, I can't get Croc: Legend of the Gobbos working with wave effects. From the readme.
17. Croc does not play ambient sound effects or plays random MIDI notes […]
17. Croc does not play ambient sound effects or plays random MIDI notes
Ambient sound effects are only supported on AWE32 and AWE64
SoundBlaster sound cards (when properly configured). If you have one
of these cards but are not hearing ambient sounds (such as tweeting
birds, wind, etc.), open the 'Multimedia' Control Panel, select the
MIDI tab and check that you have either the 'MIDI for Creative
Advanced Wave Effects Synthesis for AWE32' or the 'Creative MIDI
Instrument Mapper' selected.
If these options are not available, you may need to reinstall the
drivers which were supplied with your sound card. The latest patches
and updates to Creative Labs drivers are available from their web
site at http://www.creativelabs.com18. Croc does not play reverberating sound effects in the caves
Ambient sound effects are only supported on AWE32 and AWE64
SoundBlaster sound cards (when properly configured). In order to
support this function the 'Creative Mixer' must be installed from the
disc that came with your sound card and the 'Full Duplex' operation
must be disabled. From the 'System' Control Panel, select the Device
Manager tab, and expand the 'Sound, Video and Game Controllers'
section. Open the audio device: for example, 'Creative AWE64 Gold
16-Bit Audio (SB16 compatible)' and select the Settings tab, ensuring
that the Full Duplex checkbox is cleared.
Ambient sound effects work fine. However, reverb doesn't work without the Creative drivers + Creative mixer. Installing Creative Mixer is not enough, the WaveSynth driver must also be installed.
Once WaveSynth is installed, the sound effects in Croc become extremely quiet, with the music and ambient sound effects drowning them out. The ambient sound effects have no volume control, so something is wrong. I'm out of ideas. Sound works fine with the Microsoft supplied driver, except Wave Effects (such as reverb) is not supported.
When the sound effects are quiet, reverb DOES work. It's just extremely quiet. Creative Mixer says that Croc is setting the reverb levels down to 5%, for some reason. Changing them as the game is running does nothing because Croc just resets the levels as soon as it resumes.
Toggling full duplex doesn't do anything.