Which version of VDMSound?
Which OS?

Im running windows XP home with service pack 2
and VDM Sound version 2.1.0 beta

2.1.0 beta comes with this wonderful LaunchPad extension, whereby you right-click on the program to start it together with VDMSound. Why are you trying to start dosdrv manually?

again thats another thing that works on the laptop but not on the PC but the pc is the one I really want to play it on. If I right click on TOMB.EXE there is no option for starting VDMS.

I have tried reistalling VDMS

Tomb.exe? So you are trying to play Tomb Raider, aren't you?
Lucky you! I've just wrote an instruction 'How to play TR1 on Windows XP using VDMSound and dgvoodoo' here:
http://www.tombraiderforums.com/cgi-bin/ultim … c;f=11;t=001378

Thats not the problem I cant get VDM sound to run, Your topic has nothing on this problem, It tells you how to setup tombraider but not how to solve prblems with VDMSound

thetaxcollector wrote:

I have tried reistalling VDMS

TTC, as per this thread, you might have to re-register the Active Template Library before re-installing VDMSound:

1C:\> regsvr32 atl.dll

(edit: Fixed typo's)

thanks, but windows XP home doesn't recognise it as a valid program or command

My bad 🙁 Spelling error....

1H:> chdir /d %systemroot%
2
3H:\WINDOWS> dir /s /b regsrv32.exe
4File not found.
5
6H:\WINDOWS> dir /s /b regsvr32.exe
7H:\WINDOWS\system32\regsvr32.exe
8H:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache\regsvr32.exe

The program is regsvr32.exe

You also wrote "atl.dll" as "atl.ddl" 😉

Thanks, now VDMS starts ok, but when I get into the game, the sound is all stuttery - kind of like a cd skipping

Im beginning to think its not worth bothering.
Oh I dont know if this helps, but in VDMS I had to change the IRQ to 5 because it froze the game on 7 - is it possible its conflicting with my soundblaster live card?

Did you try fiddling with VDMSound's advanced option tab? specially, the cap timer feature and use a certain amount of cpu power. 😕

Snover wrote:

You also wrote "atl.dll" as "atl.ddl" 😉

That's the problem with old age. I forget to take my medicine 😀

Anonymous wrote:

Thanks, now VDMS starts ok, but when I get into the game, the sound is all stuttery - kind of like a cd skipping

Im beginning to think its not worth bothering.
Oh I dont know if this helps, but in VDMS I had to change the IRQ to 5 because it froze the game on 7 - is it possible its conflicting with my soundblaster live card?

No; probably the game is configured for IRQ 5. There can be no conflict between your actual hardware and the virtual DOS machine's virtualized hardware unless you are using a passthrough (this is what SoundFX does).