Did not read your post too well, but I wonder whether the problem is caused by either the sound or the video card. Maybe remove one of the cards from your system or disable sound to see if the problem remains.

Thanks, i've tried pulling the soundcard out, and the mojo.exe problem still there. That's not a major problem though. I'm trying now running the soundcard without the Monster 3D, even though i doubt the Monster to be the problem, as Voodoo add-on cards use no IRQ.

it looks like you are loading "killer.exe" by Vincent Penquerc'h. try again without that program.

Sorry, have been messing with the soundcard--i plugged it back to the same slot (2nd of 3), but the BIOS didn't detect it. Same with the other slot--i thought it was dead, so i plugged it to the third slot carefully, and the BIOS found it--phew... (got no spare card at this moment). I also tried switching the card's Line Out/Spk Out jumper to Line Out. It's supposed to be cleaner, but i can't be sure about it being less noisier, since i have to max up the card's line and master volume--and the amps that i use--to get almost decent volume. The output is weak. Save it for another discussion.

Anyway, thx tikbalang--so the "opcode error" came from that killer.exe? Well, the message disappear of course, when i don't load the program, now the mojo.exe jfrom diamond driver 1.08 just hangs without warning 😀 (without the monster 3d plugged in--of course i will try again soon with the card plugged in).

However the sound problem in Syndicate remains the same. So does that WC2 installer which gives me message of IRQ conflict. This is without the Monster 3D plugged in, so we can safely assume that the Monster 3D is not the cause. As for that mojo.exe stuff, that doesn't really matter for now. I will focus on the soundcard.

P.S. I found an easy way to replicate the Syndicate sound crash problem: explode something (e.g. self-destruct) and immediately press Esc to quit the mission abruptly. Next i get to the menus, the menu-transition sound will either be chopped at the end or just fine. Then when i get back into a game mission, the 'unfinished' explosion sound continues briefly and the game crashes to DOS, leaving the humming note. At this point, if I run Syndicate again, intro music would playback but sounds disappeared. I have to reboot to remove the humming note or to get the sound back.

archsan wrote:

However the sound problem in Syndicate remains the same. So does that WC2 installer which gives me message of IRQ conflict. This is without the Monster 3D plugged in, so we can safely assume that the Monster 3D is not the cause. As for that mojo.exe stuff, that doesn't really matter for now. I will focus on the soundcard.

P.S. I found an easy way to replicate the Syndicate sound crash problem: explode something (e.g. self-destruct) and immediately press Esc to quit the mission abruptly. Next i get to the menus, the menu-transition sound will either be chopped at the end or just fine. Then when i get back into a game mission, the 'unfinished' explosion sound continues briefly and the game crashes to DOS, leaving the humming note. At this point, if I run Syndicate again, intro music would playback but sounds disappeared. I have to reboot to remove the humming note or to get the sound back.

The syndicate sound problem seems familiar, was it not because the game does not like EMM386 loaded? Try to run it with a 'safe-mode' dos prompt.

OK, i will try that, but i should have pointed it before, that when i forgot to enable EMS with EMM386, i had the in-game sound quickly disappear.

You're right gerwin, thanks a lot! So it's just memory problem after all. I tried booting without EMM386 and now with Syndicate, when i do the explosion and quit, the sound will continue at the start of the next in-game mission, but won't lead to crash. The WC installer now runs fine too. I had similar hang problem with Ultima 8 but it might be just EMM386 problem as well.

Glad it wasn't the card. Though it has no OPL3, it has a DSP v4.16 and usable MPU-401 (guess what, i just won a Roland MT-32 from Australia!), and i read that it has acceptable SNR (around 80dB?). The only problem would be its weak Line output.

Oh yeah, forgot to mention, since i moved the SB to last slot, it went back auto to the usual 220h, IRQ 5, DMA 1, MIDI 330h... which of course is NOT THAT IMPORTANT... 😀 oh well, i should get a sleep...