XenivouS on 9/6/2003 at 19:02
cool :cheeky: I hope this will help people out and answer lots of questions
dj_ivocha on 9/6/2003 at 19:38
Although I'm with win98, I think this is the place for my question - does the game "always" start in 640/480 with the cdshock.bat? How can I check to see that it is really 640 and not 320? In the game, I would rather say that it runs in 320 on my PC. And, with the risk to be blamed for not searching through the forum (and I did search :) ), can anyone please tell me how can I correct the next problem:
I'm starting the game in win, all is ok, sound/music, I've played 10 mins without crash, but when I quit the game, there is that dos-window "cdshock.bat - finished" - If I just ignore it, win works normal, BUT, as soon as I press the close button, everything freezes, even ctrl+alt+del doesn't work, I must do a cold restart. I've also tried alt+F4, and ctrl+alt+del and then - "close program", but win freezes always. Friends, I'm clueless, can anyone help me?
Another question - in pure dos, not win console I don't have sound, so I run the setup of the game and turn all sounds/music off. Then I start the game, the screen goes black and again nothing happens - it just stays at that point, but ctrl+alt+del works here. So I read through the forum for these memory problems, but I guess that's not my case - because I don't receive ANY messages - just the blank screen.
Hope you don't get bored from my newb questions :)
David on 9/6/2003 at 19:53
For problem 2 you must reneter the game (just to the menu I think) and then quit again. You can then close the dos prompt :)
XenivouS on 9/6/2003 at 20:00
when you start the game its not 640x480 when you start a new game and go into options (by pressing escape) then video options select 640x480 it should change over to the new rez. Now save your game and whenever you resume your saved game you will retain the resoultion you set it to when you created the new game, however, you wont notice the rez change until you load up your saved game. But you can try to go through the steps in my FAQ to setup the game but just adjust the steps to fit your needs. Honestly I havent had win9x for about 3 years now so ive forgotten alot of the technical aspects of it. Im just a Tech Controller in the USAF, I work with cisco routers so I was amazed at myself that I could figure out how to run it in win2k:p
dj_ivocha on 9/6/2003 at 21:01
David - thanks for the tip :) , but unfortunately it doesn't work. Or maybe I didn't express myself right, I don't know... In win98 - I'm starting the game by double clicking on the cdshock.pif, and on exit, the dos-window from the game is Finished - it's in that state, where if you try to type anything in the window, it says - "this msdos program has terminated..." - so the only thing I can do with this window is either just ignore it, or try to close it (and bring my system to crash). I tried just to ignore the window and start the game again by clicking on the pif - file, but then the game didn't start at all, the window was blank, just as in pure dos mode (see my previous post here) and windows crashed again.
XenivouS - thanks, it worked :) . But I didn't have to load the saved game, just as I clicked in the video options on "640x480", it changed the resolution at once :) . WOW
:eek: the game looks SUPER now, I just don't understand how one can complain about it :confused: for 1994 I think it was more than super :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:
And my system crashes every time :( . I tried the things in the FAQ from Daxim - I set the DPMI to 16 kb, but nothing happened.
tripwood on 9/6/2003 at 21:30
nice FAQ, i did everything but it still crashed immediatly to desktop as soon as i hit spacebar to play, except this time the Midis were playing uber slowly, ahahah.
you also mention NOLFB.EXE, all i ever found on that page was NOLFB.COM is that what you meant?
XenivouS on 9/6/2003 at 21:43
yeah but in the .bat file use what i wrote in the FAQ, i just copied and pasted what my .bat file looked like. As for the crashing, im at a loss, mine doesnt crash, I just played for about an hour and a half or so untill i got lost and fed up:cheeky:
Whats your system setup and OS by chance?
XenivouS on 10/6/2003 at 03:51
is your .bat file still look like this?
@echo off
D:\SSHOCK\NoLFB.com
D:\SSHOCK\MOUSECTL.COM 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
D:\SSHOCK\dos4gw.exe
D:\SSHOCK\CDSHOCK.exe
if so, I had mine similar to that before I trolled for about 3 more hours and figured stuff out. Try setting up the .bat file something similar like i did. Such as the dos4gw.exe part. It should look like:
<insert your directory here>\SSHOCK\dos4gw.exe CDSHOCK.exe
I know for certain that is how that should look for dos4gw to work with out crashing because when I had it like yours above I would crap out when I hit space to start the new game.
Dont worry you'll get it!
EDIT: I actually had problems getting MOUSECTL to work properly with out the game crapping out as well you may want to try mouse2kv. Also you can try the different versions of dos4gw and see which one works best. It took me a couple tries to figure out which one worked best.
tripwood on 10/6/2003 at 04:55
actually i had tried it as you suggest, and the only change was that the midis were slow, as said before.
i've tried a lot of combinations, all at the same end. well, some wouldn't even start up at all.
if people were to post their BAT files so i could compare, it'd be nice.
