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Conference 501clb::pcdoom

Title:	Doom - The Game
Notice:	Doom stuff - see 183 Out of HOURS Access
Moderator:	BAHTAT::HILTON

Created:	Tue Jun 14 1994
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	212
Total number of notes:	3287

174.0. "No sound with Sound System Card" by HOLST::MARK () Mon Apr 24 1995 17:49

     
    	I'm having trouble getting the Sound effects to work on DOOM II.
    
    	My system has a Windows Sound System Sound Card, which is set up
    	to be Soundblaster compatible under MS-DOS.
    
    	I can get the DOOM music to play, but can't get any sound effects.
    	I've checked the settings in CONFIG.SYS, and configured the card
    	in DOOM setup to tie in with these, ie, correct IRQ, DMA etc.
    	I had the same problem with DOOM 1, where on startup, the system
    	reported, "Sound Blaster not responding at 240", but this is the
    	address the card is set up for. I have no other cards in the
        system, so don't see how there can be a clash.
    
    	Any suggestions????
    		
    	Cheers 'n' all that,
    
    	Mark.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
174.1		KDX200::ROBR	Who wants to live forever?	`Tue Apr 25 1995 11:34`	5
	heh heh heh... is this the microsoft card? v1.0 or 2.0? i could never get any more than the music working either.
174.2	I just came looking for this note ;-)	SUFRNG::WSA104::VORE_S	Nothin but 'Net	`Tue Apr 25 1995 12:02`	6
	Hmm, same problem here but with an original Sound Blaster. The Doom1 Shareware version worked fine but the registered DoomII dosn't - Music but no FX. Yanked everything else that I could out of the box to make sure no DMA conflicts, etc. -Steven
174.3		KDX200::ROBR	Who wants to live forever?	`Wed Apr 26 1995 13:35`	4
	now THAT i know works fine. ive run every version of every id game on an original sb.
174.4	No FX either...	ASDG::DUMONT		`Wed Mar 06 1996 10:47`	8
	I just installed a SoundBlaster and get no FX either. Music is fine, but thats it. Same on both Doom and DoomII. From the looks of this note nobody has any suggestions. Oh well.....
174.5	Fiddle about ...	OCTAVE::VIGNEAULT	Minister of chiles	`Thu Mar 07 1996 07:34`	13
	Well the obvious is that you ran SETUP and made sure that the FX were enabled, and that the interupts etc .. were set correctly. You've made sure that the volume setting is cranked up for the FX. Otherwise, try reinstalling, or make sure you've got the latest patches installed. I forget the current version revs, something like 1.9 ... someone else in here can probably tell you. I have an older SB Pro, and it works fine with Doom I and Doom II. Have fun, Larry
174.6	had similar problem, dumped card!	SUBSYS::MSOUCY		`Mon Mar 11 1996 07:24`	15
	re: last couple I had a similar problem with an OEM version of the SB16 card. I went through 3 cards all with the same results. I went back to my SBPro (and I CAN hear the difference between these two!) and have never had a problem. The problem with those SB16's was partially due to having an external SCSI box connected to my Adaptec 1542C controller, when I brought it to the shop without the box the 3rd card worked, took it home, hooked it up, didn't work. I said the hell with it and went back to the SBPro. He also told me (my buddies store) he had the same problem I had on one Pentium 100Mhz he put together with one of those OEM cards....strange eh?