Check your system for GIVEIO.SYS. You also need to run "DOSDRV" in the SAME WINDOW as the game.

eg.

C:\PATH\TO\DISCWORLD> DOSDRV
Blah blah, VDMSound is copyright Vlad Romascanu and is released under GPL...

C:\PATH\TO\DISCWORLD> SETSOUND (or whatever the sound setup is)

nope, no giveio.sys, and I've been trying to run it with the loader-thing and setting all the options right... and nothing.. the only sound setting I can set is the midi, and that's to adlib and nothing else... funny thing is, it runs fine on my sister's PC without anything, under XP and she has onboard sound >.> *irritated...* anyways, I read through the post of the other guy with the same issue, but I haven't got any of those programs that check the system or anything... I really am lost on this one, cuz I loved the game, but without sound it's like having a cake to eat, but the cake has no taste at all 😒

Search your entire hard-disk(s) for "*.sys" files that contain the string Ke386 -- at least one file must come up (if it didn't then you did not search properly) -- which files are those?

PS: before performing the serach, go in Explorer in Tools in Options and tell it to show hidden files and folders, just in case.

Cheers,
V.

Nope, nothing turns up.. all my files are always set to be shown (like to know what I have in here, heh) and I searched my computer for *.sys contain that ke386 and even searched for *ke386*.sys if that's what you meant... but my XP searching engine's been acting weird lately, so that could be due to that... it doesn't seem to actually find a srting in the document anymore, for some reason... I'll double check that, but the last time I searched, it wasn't finding strings in text files that I was finding manually...
(btw, nice to see another canadian out there ^_^;)

**update ok, so forget that, whatever was wrong seems to have corrected itself, cuz my searches run fine... are there any other options I should have set?

**update 2 alright, so the search thing itself had the optino for hidden files/folders, so I'm doing another search now with that enabled... this'll take a while ^^;

**update 3 ok, that's done, and still no files... back to the other things I should have done part then... ^^;

Do you have any other DOS games that you can run properly with VDMSound?

I actually haven't got any other dos games at all... but I can remember running civ2 on this machine with no problems... and carmageddon 2 as well (tho I couldn't play the cd audio cuz the copy I got sucked...) um... that's about all I have... could you link me to soome kind of small, quick games that I could test vdmsound on?

Originally posted by Artemis-kun ...but I can remember running civ2 on this machine with no problems... and carmageddon 2 as well...

Well those are both Windows titles and won't help for troubleshooting. Try this MsPacEm DOS game (formerly shareware, now freeware).

It auto-configures itself, so it should run without any special setup after installation (it has DOS and Windows installers).

Try it with VDMSound and try it it using XP's native SB emulation (just run the game, it's built into the OS).

AdLib music might fail using native emulation (it does on mine, but digital audio still works). If your OS is working properly, you should hear digital sound effects either way.

NOTE: the attached file has been moved to here.

ok, so none of the above 😅 neither XP nor vdms gives any soiund whatsoever on that game...

Originally posted by Artemis-kun neither XP nor vdms gives any soiund whatsoever on that game...

Then something is definitely wrong. You have any custom hardware installed, like a special controller adapter, or some such thing?

nope.. only things I have on my PC are what's in my info, and my intel wireless series.. printer, scanner, some other USB things for my mp3 player and the sony digicam... other than that, that's all...

As I said, at least one file must contain ke386 on your system. The file is C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\videoprt.sys . Make sure that the search finds at least that file, then see if any other files are reported.

Cheers,
V.

Artemis-kun wrote:

nope.. only things I have on my PC are what's in my info, and my intel wireless series.. printer, scanner, some other USB things for my mp3 player and the sony digicam... other than that, that's all...

arg, pos windows!! I can find that string inside that file, but windows doesn't even find that file... is there some thrid-party file searching program I can use here, cuz obviously M$ crapped out on this one...

***Update ok I got a working prog, (File search assistant, good prog...) and am running the search now (already tested it, so that's no prob..) I'll post what files it finds when it finishes... which could be a while...

Alright, worked this time... this prog even generated a nice little HTML report, which I'll include here... it displays the chunks of text about where it found the string, so it might mean somethign to you guys.. mean's nothign to me tho 😁

http://mitglied.tripod.de/artemiskun/report.htm

Those chunks are just so you get a reference point if you are, for example, searching a long text file.

There's your culprit, totalio.sys.

It's not part of Windows, one of your pieces of hardware must have installed it.

Read:
http://www.cmkrnl.com/arc-totalio.html

It's similar to GIVEIO.SYS, and must be removed, at least temporarily, from running in order for VDMSound to work.

ok then.. how do I make it go away, or find out what prog is using it, so I can remove it...? or can I just delete it?

Originally posted by Artemis-kun ...so I can remove it...? or can I just delete it?

You might try going into "safe mode" and move it to a backup directory. Whatever stops working is probably what's using it. If you need it back you can copy it back temporarily, then shutdown and restart to activate it again. Sounds good in theory anyway.

w00t, thx guys 😁 discworld running just fine now 🤣

Another stupid problem solved. Closing thread: RESOLVED