If you play in windowed mode and enable Gildos Vesa support, I think that stops any of the desktop/resolution switching.

I seem to get a posting error when I enter the key combination for task manager, weird.

Windowing does fix this, but Fraps doesn't work with windowed games.

To clarify, when the crash happens the game just freezes and I have to open the task manager then end Glidos and ntvdm. Fraps refuses to work for TR1 again until I log off and on or restart my computer.

A few people have found that using VDos32 avoids this type of crash.

I thought of trying VDOS32, but the game doesn't have any music when you use it, and that probably isn't allowed for what I'm doing. Is Redbook support easy to implement? Not that I'm forcing you to release a version with it or something, but if it potentially works it could be nice.

MMAN wrote:

and that probably isn't allowed for what I'm doing

Ooooh, so what is it you're doing? 😕

Well, it's for speedrunning it, and I think the game needs all audio for the site I'm submitting to, at the least, I'd have to redo what I've already done to be consistent (If I don't just stick with running it "normally").

That's also why I'm interested in whether there's a way around the small delay when you load, as some levels require some precision within the first couple of seconds, and therefore the delay can be troublesome and might lose me time.

MMAN wrote:

I thought of trying VDOS32, but the game doesn't have any music when you use it, and that probably isn't allowed for what I'm doing. Is Redbook support easy to implement? Not that I'm forcing you to release a version with it or something, but if it potentially works it could be nice.

VDos32 has no redbook support at the moment, but it doesn't stop Glidos using the MP3 audio pack, so you can have music easily enough.

Cool, didn't realise it had the ambient music as well.

I'll have to get it and see whether I can use it without having the rest of the music triggers play, since that would probably classify as modding the game, especially since the pack is only half complete (I guess doing this would to, but it sounds the same 😀 ).

Edit: Yes, I moved all the extra audio tracks and now in VDOS the game works like usual. Though I can't tell whether the issue is fixed until I've played more.

Too bad the delay seems to be the same, but I'm pretty much done with the levels where that is anything more than an annoyance.

Are you the guy who posted all those awesome TR speed runs on Youtube?

Yes, I made that run in DGVoodoo, but it doesn't seem to work on my new computer while Glidos does, plus I get the custom texture and sound packs etc when I'm playing "casually".

I haven't seen the speed runs. Got links?

The videos are here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F8970512D477DE7A

But you might want to wait until it is redone.

Edit: That link doesn't seem to work, you'll have to start from here and go through my videos to see the rest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AJlID3LeiE

I haven't had a crash so far in VDOS, but I still need test a little more before I can be 100% sure it fixes it.

What is "speedrunning"? Is that another name for "overclocking"?
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Nothing to do with overclocking.

Speed-running means completing a game from start to finish in the shortest time possible.

Oh. Okay. I guess I'm obviously not in the speedrunner set.
Fifteen days for fifteen levels is not exactly "running" ANYwhere.
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