First post, by TelamonLivesOn
Hello all, whenever running Blood (with Plasma Pak) installed on a DOS 6.2 (not 6.22) system with 2GB of RAM (Computer uses this in Windows 2000), the sound effects work fine but the midi music fails to play. This happens whether it be OPL3 from my SB16 or General MIDI from my SC-55mkii (connected to gameport). Since I heard there were some memory issues regarding the game, I disabled HIMEM and EMM386 along with my Adaptec ULTRA2 SCSI Drivers for my CD-ROM drive. This appeared to let me play OPL3 MIDI without any issues and general midi with a few issues (SC-55 had to be re-initialized to play songs using INIT ALL, didn't have this issue with Dark Carnival Song). However, when re-loading the scsi driver, the issues came back, leading me to believe that the ASPIU2.SYS and/or the ASPICD.SYS drivers are the culprits. My question is how can I get the game to play general midi music with the drivers loaded and without the weird reinitialization midi fix needed. It should also be noted that BLOOD 1.0 would crash with a DOS4GW 06h invalid opcode error (doesn't occur with Plasma PAK update) and that the SC-55 will sometimes display +------------ or NO INSTRUMENT as the first few instruments (This might explain why Dark Carnival works fine). Finally, games such as Rise of the Triad and DOOM work perfectly fine with the drivers loaded and have no issues whatsoever. If anyone knows how I can solve this, please let me know!
Edit: I forgot to mention that all MIDI, regardless of drivers loaded, etc works flawlessly in the setup program.