Re: Descent, Gravis Ultrasound, and random lockups!!!

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From: ad... Adam Pletcher
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 21:58

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Curtis.N...@sunbelt.net (Curt Lindner) writes:

>I have all three of these!!  Yet I haven't seen the many "X" doesn't work with 
>my GUS posts that I see for other games.

>Am I the only one (actually there is another person with this problem) that is 
>experiencing total system lockups while using a GUS soundcard??

>I've tried it with and without SMARTDRV and memory managers, and with the IRQ 
>set to 11 AND 7, DMA at 1, and Address at 220.  These cofigurations are 
>working flawlessly for me in DOOM II, WCIII, Tie Fighter, and Hardball 4, as 
>well as several Shareware games, including Heretic.

>Any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

Have you tried running from a clean boot (by hitting F5 during a reboot)?
No sound drivers are needed for Descent's GUS support... it should run
fine from a clean boot like this.  Also try running with the "-verbose"
option and see exactly where it locks up.

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Adam Pletcher
Parallax Software

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