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An error occurs while trying to run a game

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First post, by Guest

Posted on 2004-07-02, 01:29

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Im trying to run "Are you afraid of the dark: The tale of Orpheo's curse" and when I tryed running it with VDMsound this is the error that poped up

When I tryed to click yes it just popped up again and kept doing it, before I had VDMsound the game was giving me the error "Failed to load drivers for your card" and I didnt know if it meant sound or video so I got VDMsound since somthing similar happened on my old comp, Im running Windows xp with a Radeon 9200 and an intergrated sound card, I have all the latest drivers for my video card too. What would be causing this error?

Edit: And maybe its not because of VDMsound? I dont know if I should try to run this on a DOSbox emulator or what? Oh yeah and I also forgot to mention Im running the latest version of VDMSound

Reply 1 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2004-07-02, 19:06

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bump, any help?

Reply 2 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2004-07-03, 22:55

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any help yet?

Reply 3 of 8, by vladr

Posted on 2004-07-03, 23:16

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DIsable AdLib in LaunchPad and see what/if crashes next.
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Reply 4 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2004-07-03, 23:29

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how do i do that?

Edit: Wait do i just comment this stuff out in the vdms.ini?

;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; This module is used to play back the AdLib data on a Windows DirectSound device
;--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[AdLib Wave Player]
CLSID = DSoundDevice.WaveOut ; you can also use 'WaveDevice.WaveOut'
Path = DSoundDevice.dll ; you can also use 'WaveDevice.dll'

[AdLib Wave Player.config]
device = -1 ; -1 = the Wave/DirectSound mapper, 0 = first device, 1 = second, etc.
buffer = 75 ; how many milliseconds of audio data to buffer

Reply 5 of 8, by vladr

Posted on 2004-07-03, 23:44

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Yes, correct - unless you use LaunchPad that is, in which case VDMS.INI is ignored and custom ones are generated as needed.

Reply 6 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2004-07-04, 00:36

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? Im using the latest version of VDMS, and it already created a VDMS shortcut for the game so what am I supposed to do then?

Reply 7 of 8, by MiniMax

Posted on 2004-07-04, 20:39

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Guest, if you make a right-click on the short-cut, select Properties, and press the Advanced... button, you can disable AdLib without manual editing of an obscure configuration file.

Reply 8 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2004-07-05, 06:27

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whoa thanks man, I never knew u could set all those options in there, Ill have to try it tomorrow tho, thanks

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