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Sound settings in Aces over Europe

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First post, by RettMikhal

Posted on 2006-12-31, 07:02

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So Aces over Europe was running fine on my laptop. I gave it to my friend and he complained it sounded cartoony when he fired or got shot, and when playing on his laptop I had to to agree. Upon moving Dos box and AoE to my PC, it sounds a lot like his. Little pixie-like sounds when the guns fire. I had to use install.exe to run it, but when given CHOICES for sound settings, I can only select music, not sound or joystick (I don't have one, but before ripped everything out and installed from scratch I COULD see the option to pick one.)

The Music is running on MT-32 and sounds GREAT. But there's no option to change the sound anymore? What happened, do I have a corruption or something?

Reply 1 of 5, by wd

Posted on 2006-12-31, 15:05

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Delete the dosbox config file (or rename it), create a fresh one like
described in the readme. Don't copy around dosbox.confs from/to
other installations.

Reply 2 of 5, by collector

Posted on 2006-12-31, 17:50

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Re-run INSTALL from the game's directory or manually edit RESOURCE.CFG to change the game's audio options.

The Sierra Help Pages -- New Sierra Game Installers -- Sierra Game Patches -- New Non-Sierra Game Installers

Reply 3 of 5, by RettMikhal

Posted on 2006-12-31, 20:21

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I tried messing with DOSBOX's soundblasters, none of them worked the way it used to on my laptop (which now ALSO sounds like pixies.) I uninstalled and reinstalled dosbox and it still doesn't sound right. The RESOURCE.CFG file looks like this:

videoDrv = VGA320.DRV
soundDrv = MT32.DRV
joyDrv = NO
mouseDrv = none
memoryDrv = none
modules = 0
latest = 0
toggle3 = 1
toggle4 = 1
toggle5 = 0
toggle6 = 0
toggle7 = 0
minCPU = 386
minDOS = 500
minEMS = 336
directory = \dynamix\aoe
cmd = aoe

So I don't understand why it sounds so horrible.

Reply 4 of 5, by collector

Posted on 2006-12-31, 22:23

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RettMikhal wrote:
I don't understand why it sounds so horrible.

Because of this:

RettMikhal wrote:
soundDrv = MT32.DRV

If you don't have an MT-32 or MUNT with the MT-32 ROMs The sound will be crap. Select ADL.DRV

Reply 5 of 5, by RettMikhal

Posted on 2007-01-01, 20:21

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That did it. Thank you so much for your help, guys.

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