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Having troubles with Tie Fighter and VDM Sound

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First post, by Grapeman

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I just recently got back my old CD of Star Wars: Tie Fighter. This happens to be the Colectors Edition so it's on CD which helps a bit. I've had problems before with it on older sysytems ( memory ) but with this comp (P4, 1.6GHz, 256 megs Ram, XP Pro ) it should run like a dream... and it does.

Except for the sound. I can't get the game to configure my sound card. And when I do, it won't run the game. So I downloaded VDM Sound and what do you know... it doesn't work as well.

What happens is when I try to run it with VDM it gives me a error message 3, which tells me that either I don't have the disc in the drive, or my drivers are shot. I had the disc in ( double checked ) and the drivers work fine, and yet it still won't work. Someone please help!!!!

Thank you,

Grapeman, the SW nerd who can't play his game.

God I wish I knew what the hell I'm doing....

Reply 1 of 4, by vladr

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You must nable low-level CD-ROM support in VDMSound. You either do that in the LaunchPad properties if using VDMSound LaunchPad or inside VDMS.INI otherwise. Don't mix the two please.
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Reply 2 of 4, by Grapeman

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Sir, I hate to bother you again, but now I am having troubles making the conversions. I know it's kinda sad but I'm new to the computer world and need a little more help than others... ( aka: someone to hold my hand ). Your help will be more than appreciated.

Grapeman, looking like a tool.

God I wish I knew what the hell I'm doing....

Reply 3 of 4, by Grapeman

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Actually, when I activated the Enable low level disc support through the LaunchPad, it booted, but still no music. Well, then I realized that I didn't have the sound card configured on the game itself, so I did that and now it won't boot to the game again, giving me the Error 3 message again. Please help!!!!

God I wish I knew what the hell I'm doing....

Reply 4 of 4, by Grapeman

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Then again, maybe I screwed up again. I forgot to configure the one file to enable low level support but when I did it didn't get past the page of:

Loading Tie Fighter CD. Please Wait....
DOS/4GW Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.97
Copyright (c) rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1994

God I wish I knew what the hell I'm doing....

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