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First post, by danowar

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Hello and Good Day to all,

I'm trying to play my Turrican 2 version (Topware Silver Games Version).

I've scoured the internet and this forum and discovered that, next to the real thing, DOSBox with activated GUS emulation would be ideal to experience the game.

I know about some GUS driver patch for Turrican 2 and have applied that patch (i.e. I renamed the original driver to NAME.org and placed the patched driver in the folder).

I downloaded the GUS files from the Vogon website. I used these:

HuggyBaby's Ready-To-Use DOSBox Ultrasound Folders (featuring the original GUS 4.11 set and the enhanced Pro Patches Lite 1.61 set)
http://www.dosgames.com/forum/about10574.html

I tried the game both with the normal and PPL drivers.

My DOSBox config has all sound emulation enabled and uses the default parameters. The Turrican 2 configuration is set to use GUS using the correct values, or so it seems.

When the intro music begins, it crackles and pops or starts to sound "disharmonious" (or rather, the speed of the music varies).

My cycles are at 3300, I have a relatively new (2 years old) PC with a Dual Core Intel CPU.

Can somebody point me to my error if I made any?

EDIT to clarify stuff:
I forgot to post my specs, so here they are...

Host PC:
ASUS P8H67-MPro Rev 3.0
Intel i5-2500 3,3 GhZ
16 GB DDR3 Ram
GeForce GTX 560Ti 2048MB
SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium
Win 7 Prof. 64-Bit

DOSBox Stuff:
DOSBox 0.74

Last edited by danowar on 2016-11-16, 17:03. Edited 3 times in total.

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Reply 2 of 5, by leileilol

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Isn't Turrican II's sound through GUS still a software mixing buffer?

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Reply 3 of 5, by h-a-l-9000

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3300 cycles could be a bit low, try 10000 or 20000.

1+1=10

Reply 4 of 5, by eL_PuSHeR

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Reply 5 of 5, by danowar

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After finishing the first level, the music for the next one was twice or three times as fast as normal, using GUS.

I've since given up, used the Sound Blaster driver and haven't had any problems.

Higher cycles didn't help, especially not with the sped up music problem.

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