Clam wrote:

Anyone know of a vesa driver I can use on an nvidia geforce 4? Or at least a dos wrapper for it?

http://www.scitechsoft.com/support/support_home.html
The "Display Doctor" is about the only real option you have outside a dual-boot. Mixed results for a lot of people and a few horror stories as well.
Personally, I recommend the Dual-boot with DOS or Windows 9x.

Clam wrote:

Less importantly (Im sure this one has been answered millions of times before, so just tell me to read down the list if necessary), anyone got any idea how to set/get the irq/dma settings on a soundblaster card in win2k so that dos recognises it?

Amazing you haven't realized this yet...DOS is GONE. There is no DOS in Win2k. You have a command line that acts like DOS, but it's not DOS.
Consequently, you have no DOS audio support...at all. VDMSound is your only real hope.

Download it, it's update and it's GUI Launcher.

Get main program here in the files section.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/

Get the update and GUI Launcher v1.0.0.7 here:
http://vdmsound.sourceforge.net/files/

Install the main program 1st. Copy the update files on top of your installed ones. Then install the GUI Launcher.

VDMSound rocks. It also has an option to "enable VESA" which opens the game fullscreen automajickally. Should work fine.

Now, is the Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes 2 the Case of the Rose Tattoo? If it is, I can test it. If it's something else, I don't have it. 😀

And again, (how many times have I reiterated this?) Follow proper posting guidelines!

Oh, and, two things.

1. DON'T EVER USE DISPLAY DOCTOR. EVER.
2. UNIVBE SUCKS.

😁

Too bad that long thread regarding one of the "Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes" games disappeared off of the old VDMSound forum. Nicht, remember any of that?

Snover wrote:

VDMSound rocks. It also has an option to "enable VESA" which opens the game fullscreen automajickally.

But unless the OS natively supports that VESA mode, you're still out of luck. I was under the impression that Win2k had even fewer VESA modes than XP. Hrmmm...

Now, is the Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes 2 the Case of the Rose Tattoo? If it is, I can test it.

It is. There were only two volumes. 1-The Case of the Serrated Scapel and 2 - The Case of the Rose Tattoo (Volume 1 was also VGA only).

And again, (how many times have I reiterated this?)

Somewhere between 1 and 1 Billion. Closer to the latter, I believe.

[1]DON'T EVER USE DISPLAY DOCTOR. EVER.

Unless you're a crazy XP user with 2GHz processor who just _has_ have his "Shadow Warrior" running at 1024x768.

[2] UNIVBE SUCKS.

I sense hostility.

Stiletto wrote:

Too bad that long thread regarding one of the "Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes" games disappeared off of the old VDMSound forum. Nicht, remember any of that?

Yes I remember it. Unfortunately:
1) It was Volume 1 "The Case of the Serrated Scapel" (This is volume 2)
2) It was mostly a specific problem on his machine. It worked fine on mine.

I'll test Rose Tattoo later and report back.

Ta all..

Am successfully using VDMSound for "beneath a steel sky" (brilliant)

.. Can't get "rose tattoo" to work though, despite selecting "enable vesa"...

So any suggestions appreciated.. thanx!

I'll putz around with it later tonight if I get the chance.

Game runs fine. The only problems I see are low cursor framerate and problem with sound interleave timing (stuttery sound). Nominating WORKSFORME.

🤣..

okay.. will play with it some more...

did you run the installer (to setup sound?)

and what else did you use? Just VDMSound?!?

(sorry for the quezzies.. dont hate me 'cause im stoopid)

SETSOUND dies when run from the installer - run it separately.
The only thing I used was VDMSound with Update 1 and Launchpad.

I'm currently testing it. It runs fine but for some unknown reason it kicks me back to desktop when I access some inventory objects, like showing something to someone (in Mycroft's flat for instance, showing certain inventory items to the man at the door). I've tried looking for a patch on EA page and Mythos but I couldn't find any.
Help.

Just found a workaround:

When game kicks you out to desktop, just reload, exit map and reenter map. You may be lucky.