i cannot hear anything!!

[Doan Sephim]

ive been having a problem with sounds. on my new computer (windows xp) i cannot get any sound...that is, i can get sound from other games like unreal tournament 2003 or and other thing...but things like quest for glory are sadly silent. i had tried to figure out the problem for some time, but have not made any progress.
i wonder, is this a similar problem anyone else has encountered and/or solved?
thanks doan

[Collector]

Are you using VDMSound?

[Doan Sephim]

no sir...should i be using that?

[Eigen]

http://www.mega-tokyo.com/forum/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=5691

I attached a zip with few SCI sound drivers in my post there. Try these.

-Eigen

[Doan Sephim]

hey thanks eigen,
unfortunately there was only one driver that worked (kind of). the gm.drv gave me sound, but it was really choppy and off.
when i tried the mpumap.drv i got a message "patch 380 not found" what is that?

[Eigen]

I get this message too. Probably that your soundcard is not suitable for it...maybe.  

Have you tried FreeSCI, it has quite a good sound system that should work for you.

-Eigen

[Doan Sephim]

i havent tried it. is it a program that runs sci games or something? if so, how does it work?

[Eigen]

http://teksolv.de/~jameson/freesci-0.3.3-win32.zip

download this an unpack it to your game folder. But for some reason, when you have fan-made game, or anything based on the template, the save and restore doesn't work.

-Eigen

[Collector]

If you are going to run DOS games on Windows 2k or XP you really should install VDMSound. http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=2071

[Doan Sephim]

to be honest, i couldnt understand the freesci download at all  ...so i guess i'll just have to live without the music...or maybe hook up some piece of junk computer. in any event thanks for all the help!
doan

[Nychold]

Try VDMSound.  It's a driver-like program which allows command prompts in Windows NT flavored OSes (NT 4?, 2000, XP, 2003, etc) which allows audio to be played (through MPU-401/SoundBlaster 16 emulation, I believe).  It's simple enough to download and install, but in order to use a program with it, you must right-click on the program, and select "Use with VDMSound..." or something like that.  Check their documentation for more details.

[Doan Sephim]

thanks nychold
im downloading it now, and i'll give it a go. all this headache b/c i got a new computer  
thanks again

[Doan Sephim]

it works! hooray!
awesome