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Marcus Trisdale wrote:
> 
> When Diablo's sound is on, all other Win95 sound ceases to function on my
> computer.  Is this with anyone else??  If so, then I would say you could
> not do chat or iphone with Diablo running!
> 
> -Marcus Trisdale
> 
> WilyKit (Benjamin Black) <cali...@cloud9.net~remove_me~> wrote in article
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> > Dean_R...@oti.com (Dean Roberts) wrote:
> >
> > : I was just wondering if anybody out there has tried to use an internet
> > : phone type product and Diablo on battlenet at the same time.  The
> > : point?  To be able to talk to the people you are playing with.
> >
> > : I suspect that the requirements on the CPU would be too hight but I
> > : can't try this myself since I only have a half duplex sound card and a
> > : 14.4 modem.  To have a hope of working you would want a full duplex
> > : sound card and a 28.8 modem.
> >
> > I don't think it's so much a question of requirements on the CPU being
> > too high as it is the limited bandwidth being used up.  Diablo
> > requires a 28.8 minimum to play over battle.net, and even that gets
> > slowed down to the point where the other players and monsters are too
> > jumpy with four players.  I don't see why it wouldn't work, except
> > maybe Win95's pathetic handling of multitasking might not let you do
> > it, but you'd need at least a 64k ISDN.
> >
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> >
>From what I've seen, every Win95 game (when running) blocks other
programs from using sound.  Even system sounds.  This is probably due to
DirectSound and the way it interacts with the PC hardware.