Sounds in Regestered Descent Not Right

Thread View: alt.games.descent

4 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

4 total messages Started by ter... Terry Henning Mon, 20 Mar 1995 00:36

#1082

Author: ter... Terry Henning
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 00:36

16 lines
1185 bytes

After installing registered Descent, I found that the sounds aren't right.
For, example, the flares sound the same as a level one laser, and picking up
a hostage sounds the same as picking up a shield bonus or energy bonus.  Also,
the different levels of lasers used to have distinct sounds, now they all
sound the same.  

In the shareware version, they all used to have their own, unique sound.

Is there something in the setup, or is this a bug??

Terry
-- 
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.          |
		-- Abraham Lincoln  |  ter...@msn.fullfeed.com
--

Re: Sounds in Regestered Descent Not Right

#1083

Author: tosc... Matt Toschlog
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 04:34

19 lines
1464 bytes

Terry Henning (ter...@msn.fullfeed.com) wrote:
: After installing registered Descent, I found that the sounds aren't right.
: For, example, the flares sound the same as a level one laser, and picking up
: a hostage sounds the same as picking up a shield bonus or energy bonus.  Also,
: the different levels of lasers used to have distinct sounds, now they all
: sound the same.  

Because of increased memory requirements for the Registered version, some
sounds are used for more than one effect if you have low memory on your
system.  It sounds like that's what's happening to you.

You may want to try the -NoLowMem option.  That will disable the 
systems that try to save memory.  Your game will run slower, but you
should get all the sounds and bitmaps that would be present if you had
more memory.

--
Matt Toschlog
Parallax Software

Re: Sounds in Regestered Descent Not Right

#1084

Author: Gregory P. Smith
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 03:23

16 lines
1243 bytes

ter...@msn.fullfeed.com (Terry Henning) wrote:
>
> After installing registered Descent, I found that the sounds aren't right.
> For, example, the flares sound the same as a level one laser, and picking up
> a hostage sounds the same as picking up a shield bonus or energy bonus.  Also,
> the different levels of lasers used to have distinct sounds, now they all
> sound the same.  
> 
> In the shareware version, they all used to have their own, unique sound.
> 
> Is there something in the setup, or is this a bug??
> 

I have found that the 8-bit sounds work great but on my friends
16-bit sound card some of the registered sounds are messed up (for
instance breaking glass is a regular explosion)

Re: Sounds in Regestered Descent Not Right

#1085

Author: ErikP...
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 16:02

29 lines
1829 bytes

"Gregory P. Smith" <smi...@cs.colorado.edu> wrote:
>
> ter...@msn.fullfeed.com (Terry Henning) wrote:
> >
> > After installing registered Descent, I found that the sounds aren't right.
> > For, example, the flares sound the same as a level one laser, and picking up
> > a hostage sounds the same as picking up a shield bonus or energy bonus.  Also,
> > the different levels of lasers used to have distinct sounds, now they all
> > sound the same.  
> > 
> > In the shareware version, they all used to have their own, unique sound.
> > 
> > Is there something in the setup, or is this a bug??
> > 
> 
> I have found that the 8-bit sounds work great but on my friends
> 16-bit sound card some of the registered sounds are messed up (for
> instance breaking glass is a regular explosion)
> 

	I was having some of the same problems until I realized that
the registered version requires more convential memory.  I created a
dual boot environment, which provided the bare minimum, basically just
the sound card, and all of the cool sounds returned.  I am guessing that
if there isn't quite enough convential memory available, some less
important sounds get mapped to more generic sounds like you are
hearing currently.  Hope that helps.  

Erik

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads