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In <3ouc4s$d...@oznet03.ozemail.com.au> amta...@ozemail.com.au (Postoffice Gateway) writes:

>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.

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>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). 

Read the FAQ for the 7th Guest!  It does mention the Cirrus Logic problem.
The problem is indeed a bug in the Cirrus Logic BIOS.  A solution which I
tried worked fine (until I got an updated BIOS) is to run the Paradise
vesa drivers located on the 2nd CD.  Paradise uses the CL chipset, and this
has always worked fine with me (no loss of sound, etc).
See if you can dig up the FAQ - it's good!  Sure was a lot of help for me!

Mark
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Mark de Wit
University of Glasgow
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These opinions are my own, and have nothing to do with Glasgow University.
In fact, if Glasgow University knew about them, they'd strongly disagree!