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Article #148576Re: More Wing Commander 2 problems...
From: Karl CFF Frank
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 00:00
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Markus Castren wrote:
> 1. The game crashes during animation sequences with speech and sometimes
> during the flight when some
> speech is played or before it I guess. I know this is probably something to
> do with the soundcard (I got SBLive)
> and its IRQ settings, but what can I do to correct this?
Sounds like it. Need way more details here...
> 2. Another thing that's annoying me is that, can I use speech while using
> the Roland-MT32 soundsystem?
No.
> The install script asks if one wants speech even if you don't select
> Soundblaster. So, is it even possible?
It is possible to use a MT32 for sound and a Soundblaster for speech. I
don't know if it can be the same card however.
> 3. The speed issue. The game runs too fast on my Celeron-466 even if I run
> MoSlo Deluxe at 1%.
Try a higher setting. If you set MOSLO too low it won't do anything at
all...
> I tried disabling
> the caches from BIOS but this slows the game too much and all sounds get
> cracky.
Only disable the internal cache. Keep the external one on. Both caches
should work fine however for WC1.
> CPU-Killer did slow it down quite
> well but it needs Windows to run so that would mean no SB/Speech.
Why? (I am not fimiliar with PCI sound cards)
--
"Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to using
Windows NT for mission-critical applications."
-- What Yoda *meant* to say
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