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Conquests of the Longbow help

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First post, by Wheezle

Posted on 2004-08-21, 08:07

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Hi. I'm trying to run conquests of the longbow on windows XP. I downloaded the audblast.drv to get digital sound, and followed instructions to stop the looping, which works ok. But the sound in the game gets jerky. The music pauses at points for like half a second then catches up (which sounds irritating). Also with some longer digital sounds (such as the singing when you enter the abbey) the sound cuts out before it finishes. This may be partially due to the aforementioned sound pausing.

I have found that if I set the cpu priority for the program to realtime, the pausing stops but my pointer does not move smoothly, and the cutting out still happens (but the sound does seem to last a little longer).

any suggestions? it still happens if I disable digital sound.

specs: Pentium 4 2.0 GHz, 768MB DDR RAM, NVIDIA geforce 4 ti 4200, soundmax integrated digital audio sound card (onboard)

Reply 1 of 8, by collector

Posted on 2004-08-23, 07:38

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Use the original SoundBlaster driver and apply the GOSiERRA patch to it. http://www.QuestStudios.com/utilities/GOSiERRAv3.zip

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Reply 2 of 8, by Wheezle

Posted on 2004-08-23, 09:26

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hmm that didn't seem to do anything 🙁

oh, actually if I run it without VDMS, the digital sound works fine, but no music.

Reply 3 of 8, by collector

Posted on 2004-08-24, 06:46

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What instuctions to stop the looping are you you talking about?

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Reply 4 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2004-08-24, 07:30

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I don't know if this has been discussed before, but since I saw it as an issue on the compatibility area, I'll go ahead and post […]
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I don't know if this has been discussed before, but since I saw it as an issue on the compatibility area, I'll go ahead and post it anyway.....

I was messing around with the launcher and it's settings and found a way to get rid of that nerve breaking audio loop on VGA Sierra games.....

Using the launcher, create the VDM shortcut and use the following custom configuration :

On Sound Blaster use IRQ 5

But on the DOS Environment type in the following on the AUTOEXEC.BAT area

SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 T6

You might need to download the latest AUDBLAST.DRV that were released.....

This did the trick on Conquest of the Longbow & Dagger Of Amon Ra..... Haven't tried it on others.....

I'll be messing around with KQ5 next... let's see if there's a miracle on the making

Reply 5 of 8, by collector

Posted on 2004-08-25, 05:33

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Thought so, try removing the SET BLASTER statment from the DOS Environment in the VDMS shortcut. The GOSiERRA patched SB driver does not loop. The two conficting IRQs from this "fix" can cause odd problems.

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Reply 6 of 8, by Wheezle

Posted on 2004-08-25, 22:09

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No luck. 😒

It's a troublesome program huh? 😜

Reply 7 of 8, by collector

Posted on 2004-08-27, 10:06

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Try setting the game to use only music, not speech. There are only a few sound effects, anyway. BTW there is a new patch for this game that fixes Robin's head shaking. http://geocities.com/belzorash/

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Reply 8 of 8, by Wheezle

Posted on 2004-08-28, 02:54

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Yeah, i've always been able to do it without sound effects. That's not really the point 😜

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