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No sound in Ultima VIII: Pagan

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First post, by Numeron

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Computer specs:
# Abit IP35 Motherboard
# AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile Technology TL-58 (2x ~1.9ghz)
# 3gb DDR2
# NVidia GeForce 8600MS GS 512MB
# Matshita DVD-rom
# Realtek High Definition Audio (integrated chip on the motherboard)
# Windows Vista Home Premium (6.0)

DOSBOX specs:
#Dosbox 0.72
#D.O.G. 1.54

Game specs:
# Ultima VII: Pagan 2.13 (speechpack and update installed on the cd)
# Description of problem: There is no sound in the game (Avatar steps, speeches, sound when hurt or anything) but music is played nicely and correct. Setup says I have enough memory on my system.
# Sound options in D.O.G.: I have not enabled PC speaker. MIDI Device is on default, Sound Blaster is marked as SB 16 (OPL Mode Auto, base 220, irq 7, dma 5, hdma 5).
# Sound in Ultima VII setup: Sound: SB port 220, irq 7, dma 1. Music: SB Pro port 220.
# Video mode: Machine: VGA, Output Device: DirectDraw. Resolution 640x640, not fullscreen.
# VDMSound 2.1.0
# I have tried (atleast I think so) every logical base, irq, dma possibilities, different soundcard types etc. There is a small problem which makes me confused: in the setup there are only 3 dma possibilities to sound (0, 1, 3), though one guy says that he got the sounds working on these settings: Soundblaster, port 220, irq 7, dma 5.

Reply 1 of 3, by MiniMax

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I assume the "OPL Mode Auto, base 220, irq 7, dma 5, hdma 5" is a typo? DMA defaults to 1 in DOSBox:

sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050

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Reply 2 of 3, by Dominus

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The only thing that U8 needs is
xms=true
ems=true

In the install program, make sure that source and destination directories are correct, and you use SB 16, at port 0x0220, IRQ 7 and DMA 1.
With that it works fine in Dosbox.

I see you mentioning VDMSound up there. With VDMSound you can not make sound/voice effects work.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Numeron

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MiniMax wrote:
I assume the "OPL Mode Auto, base 220, irq 7, dma 5, hdma 5" is a typo? DMA defaults to 1 in DOSBox: […]
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I assume the "OPL Mode Auto, base 220, irq 7, dma 5, hdma 5" is a typo? DMA defaults to 1 in DOSBox:

sbtype=sb16
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050

Yes, it was indeed a typo, thanks for correcting that. I double checked my post and still didn't notice it, I should shame that. Got the sounds working by unchecking 'Use UMB' from CPU -> Memory tab in D.O.G. Also disabled Gravis ultrasound, though it didn't really have any effect. Thanks for the info guys, it's nice to see that there are still people who are interested in older games 😀

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