Shadow Warrior (DOS) under WIn2kPro [SOUND]
This is a discussion about Shadow Warrior (DOS) under WIn2kPro [SOUND] in the Windows Games category; Hi everyone. I can't get Shadow Warrior to work with sound under windows 2000 professional. The game itself will run, but it has issues working with my sound card. I have a SoundBlaster 16 compatible sound card (Creative Vibra PNP 16), and I have already Tried VDMSound 2.
Hi everyone. I can't get Shadow Warrior to work with sound under windows 2000 professional. The game itself will run, but it has issues working with my sound card. I have a SoundBlaster 16 compatible sound card (Creative Vibra PNP 16), and I have already Tried VDMSound 2.0.4. When I run the setup program (setup.exe or setmain.exe) under VDMSound it seems to pick up the sound card but fails the audio test (locks up).
If someone has figured out a way to have it work, please let me know.
Thanx
If someone has figured out a way to have it work, please let me know.
Thanx
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Nope. IIRC, only MIDI works. Sound locks it up. Will re-verify tonight. The only 100& best way to get it working is to boot into DOS or run it under Connectix Virtual PC. These ways give you full sound & VESA support.
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Unfortunately, sice all my drives are formatted as NTFS, it is impossible for me to use a boot disk (win9x/me). Any other alternatives out there? the game is really not worth it without sound!
Just wondering ... would it be possible to run it off a bootable cd while redirecting files that has to be write-accessed (cfg and saves) to a floppy or a zip?
Or boot from a zip with the full game on it - if bios allows?
Or boot from a floppy with main game files on a cd or a zip?
Or boot from a zip with the full game on it - if bios allows?
Or boot from a floppy with main game files on a cd or a zip?
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Well I'm not sure if you can trick it in such a way. And even if I COULD boot in such a way, my drives are partitioned as NTFS, so it will do me no good. Also, my BIOS is old, and does not support booting from a CD anyways. I tried updaing it, to no use!
The call is still one for people to find ways around this problem! keep posting!
The call is still one for people to find ways around this problem! keep posting!
Install Windows XP and you will have full sound/midi support (but no VESA).
OP
I would love to be able to install windows XP. I tried installing a recent beta of it, but it asked for an "activation". I do not wish to activate a beta, and Windows Xp's retail price is expected to be hefty on the pocket ;-), so for now (at least) I will have to go by with whatever win2k can handle. Thanx for the reply though. I am aware that Windows XP has increased support for dos games. 
