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Patrick Halke (pat...@zaphod.ruhr.de) wrote:
: Hi there !

: I've got a problem with the wonderful game "The 7th Guest" and my  
: SoundBlaster 16.

: Whenever there is played digitized speech, there is a very disturbing
: noise ('clack, clack, clack, ...'; maybe 600 times per minutes), except  
: the starting and ending sound.

: Unfortunately I'm very familiar with this sound, because I heard it  
: thousands of times when writing a small game with SoundBlaster/Pro support  
: on my SB16. It seems, that the 16bit card is not 100% compatible with the  
: 8bit cards :-(((.

: I've installed T7G as follows:

: Music Card: Adlib  (when selecting SoundBlaster or SB Pro 1/2, the          
:                     installer automatically sets SB Pro2 for music and      
:                     speech and you cannot change the speech card :-( )
: Speech Card: Soundblaster (when selecting SB Pro 1/2, the speech is too     
:                            soft :-( )

: My card has standard setup except IRQ is set to 7.

: I'm quite sure, that this has nothing to do with IRQ-, DMA- or Port- 
: Address conflicts (but tried IRQ 5 and 10 anyway :-)).

You've done the right things so far. I had exactly the same problem. Here 
is the solution that I came up with (probably not the only one - or even 
the best!).

The clicking sound seems to be associated with Cirrus Logig VESA Video 
cards. There seem to be three possible workarounds.

1.	Run the game in the lower resolution (MCGA?)
2.	Try running the game in a full screen DOS windows under Windows
3.	Prior to running the game, load the generic VESA driver supplied 
	with the game. It's on Disk2.

I'm using the third option. It's not perfect by any means, but the game 
plays (and sounds) good. In doing this I have, however, lost the music 
during the intro scene (New Game - you know, the violin and thunder bit). 
I experimented with the IRQ settings, and ended up changing the IRQ of my 
SB16 from 7 to 5 to accomodate T7G.Five is definately the best setting on 
my machine. I have a BBS number for ID in the US, and I'll post it when I 
find the bit of paper it's written on. I called the BBS, but there wasn't 
any patches for this problem as of May 95.

Hope this helps.

Mike
pa...@ozemail.com.au