UW1 freezes my computer

Scottish-Whisky on 10/8/2000 at 07:54

Hi all,

Now I finally got enough EMS memmory to run UW1 a new problem occured

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When I start UW1 is sais: "EMS allocated" so my memmory is OK. Next I hear my soundcard being detected and than my computer freezes. The only option left is to reboot my computer. As you can imagine this makes me really

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I think the problem is my soundcard (a diamond monster 3000) because with my old card (a soundblaster clone) I never had this problem. My irq and dma settings and such are OK becouse when I run UWsound it automaticly detects my soundcard.

Anybody got an idea?

Thanks,
Whisky

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Sentinel_77 on 11/8/2000 at 14:52

Even if Uwsound detects your sound settings, I'd doublecheck them, and if possible, put SB-emulation settings to basic(if they aren't already):
SET Blaster=A220 I7 D1 T4

I've learned that even if some games do find DMA 3 setting, it might not work.
So I always use these basic settings for emulation and rarely have problems.

I'd also check that there's enough base-memory, at least 570 if I recall correctly.

And adding line:
files=50
in config.sys never hurts...
(required for system shock 1 CD version)

Scottish-Whisky on 14/8/2000 at 07:35

Thanks, I'll give it a try....

whisky

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