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First post, by Virtua

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i've been trying to get the game's sound working with very little success. cd audio works just fine - main menu and gameplay music works, as do the intros - but sound effects are extremely distorted. i'm running the game under windows 98 with an audigy 2 zs installed using this guide. i've tried restarting into ms-dos mode but i get a black screen when i launch the game, so i suppose that might be another issue entirely

i've searched around and it feels like a lot of these games are a pain to get working so i'm willing to accept this as a lost cause but for the sake of my partner's sanity (she really wants to play) i thought i would ask here. i may have had the same sound issue in dungeon keeper when i briefly tried it, so could it be a hardware issue?

win 10 : x570-a pro • ryzen 5900x • geforce rtx 3070 • sound blaster x ae-5 plus
win 98 : k8-vm800 • athlon 3000+ • radeon 9600 • sound blaster live! 5.1

Reply 1 of 5, by Errius

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Audio stuttering in Worms is an old problem. It may be CPU related or Windows related, as it doesn't happen in slow (>200 MHz) machines running pure DOS.

What are the specs of your system?

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Reply 2 of 5, by Virtua

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cpu is an athlon 64 3000+ and i never considered that speed might be the problem. is there a tool or setting i can use to slow the computer?

win 10 : x570-a pro • ryzen 5900x • geforce rtx 3070 • sound blaster x ae-5 plus
win 98 : k8-vm800 • athlon 3000+ • radeon 9600 • sound blaster live! 5.1

Reply 3 of 5, by Errius

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Yeah, that's going to be a problem. I have no idea how to get the game working on that rig. (This is why DOSBox was invented.)

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Reply 4 of 5, by Virtua

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okay, worms works perfectly with dosbox. good enough for us!

win 10 : x570-a pro • ryzen 5900x • geforce rtx 3070 • sound blaster x ae-5 plus
win 98 : k8-vm800 • athlon 3000+ • radeon 9600 • sound blaster live! 5.1

Reply 5 of 5, by Errius

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Great! Have fun.

Is this too much voodoo?