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Article #148584Re: More Wing Commander 2 problems...
From: Christopher Reid
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 00:00
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 00:00
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On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 19:40:46 +0200, "Markus Castren" <mcastren@_spammersdie_.saunalahti.fi> wrote: >Hi, > >just a few more questions following the discussion about getting WC2 to run. >OK, I've managed to solve the >memory problem quite well with a boot disk but then few more problems >appeared: > >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? Hmm.. do you know how to change what IRQ your sound card uses and then change the install settings for WC2 to match? >3. The speed issue. The game runs too fast on my Celeron-466 even if I run >MoSlo Deluxe at 1%. I tried disabling >the caches from BIOS but this slows the game too much and all sounds get >cracky. CPU-Killer did slow it down quite >well but it needs Windows to run so that would mean no SB/Speech. Any >suggestions on what to do? Hmm.. you can't enable the DOS drivers in Windows? I'd think you could. Similarly, you might try ALT+ and ALT- for gameplay speed issues. >Thanks to anyone who can help! Chris Reid Wing Commander CIC Chri...@wcnews.com http://www.wcnews.com
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From: Christopher Reid <CRei...@aol.com> Subject: Re: More Wing Commander 2 problems... Date: 2000/02/10 Message-ID: <5c15askosvppfdvpj3cjg09p3cv7865jdp@4ax.com> X-Deja-AN: 584040908 References: <87s8gq$bap$1@tron.sci.fi> X-Complaints-To: ab...@rcn.com X-Trace: rsn/7aN2HApoDhsUf4gvzHPqnfGeOuhY2ucQmJkmYOAHBLm/ZKY8dg== Organization: Wing Commander CIC - http://www.wcnews.com Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Feb 2000 09:31:34 GMT Newsgroups: alt.games.wing-commander Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit