When I run Blood with my AWE64 Gold in DOS Mode, It hangs, but the first time I ran it, it worked fine, I tired AWE64 Gold install disc and phils guide, and it still happens. Any help? PNP is enabled in BIOS, it still happens with it off though.
Are you using EMS? AFAIK Blood works best with XMS only or other EMS emulators that aren't restricted to 32MB.
Still hangs.
What are the system specs? What other cards are on the system?
wrote:What are the system specs? What other cards are on the system?
GPU: Nvidia RIVA TNT / Voodoo 2 12MB SLI
Soundcard: AWE64 Gold
CPU: Pentium 2 @ 350 MHz
HDD: Maxtor 20GB HDD
Mobo: Asus P2B98-XV
OS: Windows 98 SE
I also have a PCI Network card in there.
My config.sys and autoexec just consist of the soundblaster lines and mouse and CD ROM drivers.
When you say DOS mode, are you referring to "real" MS-DOS mode or, MS-DOS prompt (i.e., running a DOS window within Windows)?
Check your AWE64 plug 'n play IRQ & DMA settings (CTPNP.CFG in your Windows directory). Make sure they correspond to your game's setup menu settings.
You can also run Diagnose in your SB16 folder to verify that the IRQ & DMA settings that you want to run your sound card on is still valid.
wrote:When you say DOS mode, are you referring to "real" MS-DOS mode or, MS-DOS prompt (i.e., running a DOS window within Windows)?
Check your AWE64 plug 'n play IRQ & DMA settings (CTPNP.CFG in your Windows directory). Make sure they correspond to your game's setup menu settings.
You can also run Diagnose in your SB16 folder to verify that the IRQ & DMA settings that you want to run your sound card on is still valid.
Real Dos, let me check those settings and ill get back to you.
Still happens.
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Anyone?
The resources look fine. I only have the GOG version of this game, but can test it when I get back home.
A few questions:
Did you configure the sound card in the game (SETUP or SETSOUND or something like that)?
If so, did you try it with just plain Sound Blaster / Adlib rather than AWE option? Does it still get stuck?
How much RAM do you have? Try with a stick of 64 MB if you have lots of memory.
wrote:The resources look fine. I only have the GOG version of this game, but can test it when I get back home. […]
The resources look fine. I only have the GOG version of this game, but can test it when I get back home.
A few questions:
Did you configure the sound card in the game (SETUP or SETSOUND or something like that)?
If so, did you try it with just plain Sound Blaster / Adlib rather than AWE option? Does it still get stuck?
How much RAM do you have? Try with a stick of 64 MB if you have lots of memory.
I can't even open setup. But i'll try will the one stick of RAM.
wrote:wrote:The resources look fine. I only have the GOG version of this game, but can test it when I get back home. […]
The resources look fine. I only have the GOG version of this game, but can test it when I get back home.
A few questions:
Did you configure the sound card in the game (SETUP or SETSOUND or something like that)?
If so, did you try it with just plain Sound Blaster / Adlib rather than AWE option? Does it still get stuck?
How much RAM do you have? Try with a stick of 64 MB if you have lots of memory.
I can't even open setup. But i'll try will the one stick of RAM.
Didn't fix it.
I've experienced that some DOS games will not load or crash if using a a Windows 98SE DOS environment. I've had much better success loading DOS games with MS-DOS 6.2 and both Windows 95 A and B versions. I believe with DOS 6.2 or Windows 95 A your drive need to be in FAT16. One game I can confirm is Crusader no remorse.
wrote:I've experienced that some DOS games will not load or crash if using a a Windows 98SE DOS environment. I've had much better success loading DOS games with MS-DOS 6.2 and both Windows 95 A and B versions. I believe with DOS 6.2 or Windows 95 A your drive need to be in FAT16. One game I can confirm is Crusader no remorse.
If I don't load the AWE card up, it works fine. Also works fine on my P4 PC. The card works fine in Windows.
Insert the card to another ISA slot.
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wrote:Insert the card to another ISA slot.
Don't have space for it, anyways. It worked ONCE in real dos before this started, and still works in Windows.
CTCU also crashes. All my games work fine in Windows. Did I do something wrong when setting the card up? I used Phils method. Should I try to re-setup the card through diagnose and set ctpnp.cfg as read only?
CTCU doesn't run on MS-DOS 7.1.
You configure the resources in Windows, that's why I believe Creative made sure you can't run CTCU in MS-DOS 7.1. After any change, power cycle your machine.
Then, when booted into MS-DOS mode, run diagnose to make sure it's all working.
Can you try running diagnose, then not rebooting, and then try running Blood?
But the fact that you can't even run the sound setup program is quite odd too
How about other games that support the AWE directly? Doom, Descent. Do they work for you?
wrote:CTCU doesn't run on MS-DOS 7.1. […]
CTCU doesn't run on MS-DOS 7.1.
You configure the resources in Windows, that's why I believe Creative made sure you can't run CTCU in MS-DOS 7.1. After any change, power cycle your machine.
Then, when booted into MS-DOS mode, run diagnose to make sure it's all working.
Can you try running diagnose, then not rebooting, and then try running Blood?
But the fact that you can't even run the sound setup program is quite odd too
How about other games that support the AWE directly? Doom, Descent. Do they work for you?
Cant even run diagnose in DOS.
