First post, by Katz
::Greets::
I have been trying and trying to get Magic Carpet 2 to work on my laptop for some number of days now, its a great game and deserves the attention. my laptop emulates the video perfectly, however I can not get any sound or music to play.
Attempted fixes: toyed with VDMS(latest ver), every time I only get an error message before the game starts: "Invalid thread at memory address xxxx" The thread number changes at random. I have reinstalled, rebooted, the works. I read the posts in this forum about configuring VDMS, and assured that my settings were correct.
Went into my Autoexec.NT file and
Also tried a program, SoundFX2000. looks great, nice GUI... but whenever I set things up properly, i get an error before the game loads: DirectSound failed to initialize. I assured that the latest DirectX was installed, using DXDIAG, even tried lowering the sound accelleration, to Emulation Only. no dice =\
Also tried DOSbox (latest ver), sound worked great, however game was much too slow to be playable. I increased the cycles and the frameskip (F12 and F8) ,found the optimal balance, and yet slowdown was still too much.
autoexec.nt
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx
SET SOUND=c:\vdms
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330
SET VDMSoundPath=c:\vdms
DOS=high, umb
DEVICE=%systemroot%\system32\himem.sys /INT15=1024
FILES=60
Config:
WindowsXP
AMD64 2600+
1024mb ram
ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 128mb (omega drivers)
RealTek AC'97 sound (i think this is the problem) w/latest drivers
latest VIA 4in1 drivers
Please help!
Thanks much =]
-Katz