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First post, by komemiute

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HI! I happen to have a sound problem with System ShocK.

My Mother-In-Law had this very old laptop and after much "being nice" she finally agreed on givin'it frakkin'up. 😄 (Love you Sylvia!THANKS!)

It's a OLD 600Mhz Acer with some 128 MB of RAM and some "awgod" graphic board.

It barely manage 800x600. But I love it! I'm taking good care of it and all this all VERY old Dos gamez I had bought when I was less than teenager runs great!

... Long story short.

I installed my old (and Legit ) copy of Win98 SE.
And since of course my old floppy disk version of System Shock was wasted by years of waiting I had to fall back on SYSTEM SHOCK PORTABLE.

The bad thing is that even if it runs great on the Laptop there are NO sound whatsoever, while on m yBIG desktop it's all ok!

Pressing esc and checking show me that the Sound board is not initialized or anything.

I now it works 'cause I have all the sounds I could desire with C&C, Fallout 1 & 2, Steel Panthers 2 and many other games.

So Now I'm trying to download VDM Sound and see what good it does.

This post is actually a Prevention one. This evening I'll install VDMSound on the laptop so tomorrow I hope to be able to tell everyone interested how it went.

Anyone had any problem with that?Feel free to write to give me any help.

To tomorrow.

I SAID "NOOO"!

Reply 1 of 3, by DosFreak

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We don't support abandonware here.
VDMSound does not work in Windows 98SE.

You should be running the game in MS-DOS, NOT in Windows 98. So drop to DOS when you want to play it.

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Reply 2 of 3, by komemiute

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Ah... 😒

OK then 😄 Thanks anyway.

But talking about VDMSound You also have here a Alpha that should work with WIn9x- Or is it? Win9x + VDMSound **ALPHA**
In any case please be aware that the first links leading to the VCREDIST.EXE is not working.

So you suggest me to drop ti DOS...

I see. Yeah, I can do it.
Let you know soon.

K/mute.

I SAID "NOOO"!

Reply 3 of 3, by cdoublejj

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there is this forum full of win 98 gurus with all kinds of thigns to speed it up and what not alot of it is unoffcial so it's a at your own risk thing but, for the most parts it works pretty well like rp9 or the win xo compatibility layer.

http://www.msfn.org/board/windows-95-98-98se-me-f8.html