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Discworld - Sound Quality Problem

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First post, by Shaggy

Posted on 2007-09-30, 17:05

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Hi!
I'm running Discworld (the CD Version with German subtitles) on dosbox 0.72.

System is Win XP SP 2, with 1G RAM and 2800+ AMD Athlon processor.

The Problem is the soundquality, there are a lot of small lags and interrupts, so you cannot understand some words

here are the files of interest:

here are the config options:

There are quality problems with all Soundblaster variants.
Gravis Ultrasound do not work at all.
Only Roland ist running fine, but that is just the background music

here is the post CONFIG.bat statement:

and here is the post gamerun statement:

When you have an idea to solve this, or you run Discworld too, please let me know 😉

Reply 1 of 13, by MiniMax

Posted on 2007-09-30, 18:01

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There are some buffers and such that you can change in your dosbox.conf. Maybe it will help?

Reply 2 of 13, by Shaggy

Posted on 2007-09-30, 18:29

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MiniMax wrote:
There are some buffers and such that you can change in your dosbox.conf. Maybe it will help?

Do you mean:

1[mixer]
2prebuffer=10

1[sblaster]
2oplmode=auto
3
4oplrate=22050

Reply 3 of 13, by MiniMax

Posted on 2007-09-30, 21:33

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blocksize and prebuffer, yes.

Reply 4 of 13, by Freddo

Posted on 2007-10-01, 08:44

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Did you install the Discworld patch? It fixes some sound issues.

Reply 5 of 13, by Shaggy

Posted on 2007-10-01, 13:11

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Freddo wrote:
Did you install the Discworld patch? It fixes some sound issues.

Ok, and where can I find the patch?

Reply 6 of 13, by MiniMax

Posted on 2007-10-01, 13:49

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Have you tried here, or maybe here?

Reply 7 of 13, by Shaggy

Posted on 2007-10-01, 14:49

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MiniMax wrote:
Have you tried here, or maybe here?

There is an

2.6 Where can I get a patch/what does it fix?

There are no patches for the currently available version of Discworld 1, and a patch has not been released for the floppy disk version.

Ok?
Please don't state Google queries as answer here, this is disrespectful.

Also your Buffer statement is incomplete, there is no range.

Well I can set the Prebuffer to 1000 but it's quite sure, that isn't a logically clever decision.

Reply 8 of 13, by njaydg

Posted on 2007-10-01, 14:52

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Unfortunately, when it's about old games, Google isn't (always) that helpful...

However, there is one particular site that specializes in patches for (old) games:

http://www.patches-scrolls.de

May I ask that this link is added to the FAQ's or something (at least I don't remember reading about it here) as this site is THE place to find patches for old games. Even if they don't have it, the user can let them know and they try to find it!

Without further ado, here is the patch for Discworld.

Reply 9 of 13, by Shaggy

Posted on 2007-10-01, 15:49

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This site is an very good idea - but the patch I loaded downgraded my CD Version to an Spanish only subtitled Floppy version 😵 😁 🙄 😁

Reply 10 of 13, by wd

Posted on 2007-10-01, 15:56

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but the patch i loaded

Which?

Reply 11 of 13, by MiniMax

Posted on 2007-10-01, 15:57

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Shaggy wrote:
Please don't state Google queries as answer here, this is disrespectful.

It is equally disrespectful of you NOT telling me what you have done to find the patches! I am not your personal secretary, so I expect you to help me as much as you expect me to help you (perhaps even more, as you are the one that is asking for help here).

Reply 12 of 13, by Shaggy

Posted on 2007-10-01, 16:18

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MiniMax wrote:
I am not your personal secretary,

🤣, the: "I'm not your secretary" - Syndrome, thats funny

When I write, where is the patch - I don't expect someone to tell me I should use google 😦

MiniMax wrote:
what you have done to find the patches!

Well I've prayed to Psygnosis to send me an support CD.

wd wrote:
but the patch i loaded

Which?

Discworld 1.04 13-Apr-95 507 Kb
http://dlh.net/cgi-bin/dlp.cgi?lang=eng&sys=p … c_up.zip&ref=ps

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Reply 13 of 13, by wd

Posted on 2007-10-01, 18:09

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When I write, where is the patch - I don't expect someone to tell me I should use google

Right, because you should have done that before yourself.

Well I've prayed to Psygnosis to send me an support CD.

Maybe continue that way, and they'll send you something.

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