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[Glacius]

ok first of all im going to come out and say i dont know squat about computers lol. I love them to death but i dont know sh*t about it when it comes to gettting stuff to work. Now with that out in the open here is my dilemma.

I recenetly found an OLD SCHOOL game i used to play back in the day when i was in high school. It is called Shadow Warrior (japanese rip off of Duke Nukem). Anyways anyone who is familiar with it knows its from back in the MS-DOS days. Here is my question. As i am setting up the Sound FX and Music parts of the setup. The damn sound fx test was poorly tryin to get the noise out. but it seriously sounds like a banshee screaming. When i load the game with those sound fx the game lags horribly in single player. Im hoping you computer gurus can help me out. PLEASE HELP!!

[ShLoNkY]

What are the options for sound?? List ALL the setup options if you can and ill see what I can do.

Either that or I'll sell you my old DXII 50mhz setup complete with Windows 3.11 for cheap.

[Novahawk]

DOSBox?

[Glacius]

Currently on this setup (is the only that produces ANY noise at all)

SoundBlaster Type: Soundblaster 16 or AWE 32
Adress: 0X220
Sound Blaster Interrupt: IRQ 5
8-bit DMA: DMA Channel 1
16-bit DMA: DMA Channel 5



Sound FX Choice Options:
Gravis Ultrasound
Sound Blaster
Sound Man 16
Pro Audio Spectrum
AWE 32
Sound Scope
Disney Sound Source
Tandy Sound Source

Adress:
0X210
0X220
0X230
0X240
0X250
0X260
0X270
0X280

Sound Blaster Type
Sound Blaster or compatible
Sound Blaster 2.0
Sound Blaster Pro <old>
Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 <new>
Sound Blaster 16 or AWE 32

Interrupt
IRQ 2
IRQ 3
IRQ 5
IRQ 7
IRQ 10
IRQ 11
IRQ 11
IRQ 12
IRQ 15

Change 8-bit DMA
DMA Channel 0
DMA Channel 1
DMA Channel 3

Change 16-bit DMA
DMA Channel 5
DMA Channel 6
DMA Channel 7

[Novahawk]

Seriously, try it with DosBox.. it's for playing dos games on windows....

[Glacius]

cool thanks Nova ill give it a shot

[Frag0holic]

Shadow Warrior? Is that the one where you're a ninja and throw those stars and slice sh*t up with a katana? I remember that game, it f*cking rocked
But, as to your situation with running it on your comp... you're lucky it even loads up. I d/l'd this other game that uses the same engine, called Blood (sure alot of you've played it). I have the same issues you do, and I've tried everything. Dosbox doesn't have any effect on games that use the Duke 3D engine for some reason. It works for some games though.
The whole problem is the compability issues Win XP has with older DOS programs. And of course, that the game thinks your sound card is sh*t, cause it's not a soundblaster 16

[pusadolfo]

Shadow Warrior? Is that the one where you're a ninja and throw those stars and slice sh*t up with a katana? I remember that game, it f*cking rocked

Frag i think you're talking about ninja gaiden.

[Frag0holic]

Nonono I've never played Ninja Gaiden. There is only one ninja Duke3D game, so I'm thinking about the right one.

[IWantWhiteCastle]

DOSBox?

Sweet, now to play some original Quake

[Glacius]

haha sweet Frag you do remember it!! Man blood was the sh*t too, where you would pick up peoples hearts and stuff. Ah the good old school games. Anyways looks pretty grim then, im prolly going to go buy a crap laptop from someone i know and just install it on that lol. But hopefully Shlonk will be back with some other possible alternatives. :)

[Frag0holic]

the easiest way to get it to work w/o problems is to install it on a comp running win 98 or 95, I actually have a P1 133mhz with win95 that I can run those old games on. 'cept that comp is in Sweden...
I guess I'll try to download the newer DOSBox and see if it works now.

edit: yeah It will run the game now with no lag in the sound (v 0.65) but when I load it up the game doesn't respond to any keys. It's worth a try for you though Glacius.