Doom2 Sound Problem

[Normster]

I can't get the Soundblaster 16 to work in Doom2, running the program in DOS (have MS W-95 setup). Everything else works fine. I had the program (including sound) running perfectly 4-5 years ago, then blew the hard drive (unrelatedd to Doom). Never re-loaded it until now. Do I go to Setup and jiggle some of the settings?

[fodders]

Check dos sound setting have IRQ at or lower than 7

[sirdaved]

I've had the same thing happen- everything was running fine at one time and then when I went back something, like the sound, wouldn't run anymore.

In my case, 2 things had been changed: I had rem'ed out the following comment in my AUTOEXEC.BAT:

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P300 T6

Also, I had rem'ed out the following in CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE noems

My guess it's the first one that you're missing or is in there incorrectly.

[Sephiroth]

yea check the IRQ, or DMA(s) also make sure the driver is loaded correctly.

[NeoNite]

ok this has been driving me crazy here.
I still need dos doom for watching old demos :)
I have a via wave soundcard...
on irq 5.
Now, sometimes the sound seems to break up (lots of distortion), and when I quit, restart doom no sound at all.
So I've added the set blaster=a220 I5 D1 to my autoexec.bat, hoping it would make a difference.
ANd of course it didn't :-I no sound at all now!

Obvioulsy I'm doing something wrong here.
My system: Win 98, p3-800...

[fodders]

After you set the line in autoexec did you run setup.exe in Doom? To tell it irq was 5?

[Enjay]

Dunno if this will apply or not, but your sound card settings may be different under DOS, and in a DOS session under Windows.

This drove me crazy for a while with my SB live. When I eventually got it sussed out, I then got a new driver, which changed the settings again.

Anyway, if you are running DOS sessions under Windows, start a DOS session and type SET to see your environment variables (or whatever they are called). You may find your sound card is using different values than those in AUTOEXEC.BAT

[Opulent]

If all you want to do is playback demos... you should just use PrBoom.

[Sephiroth]

tyr reinstalling the drivers, they usally set up your autoexec.bat file. also depending on the card, when u set up doom sound effects it will ask for how many voices to mix, choose a mid number and the distortion may be gone or lessened.

[pritch]

fucking irg/dma conflicts. Number of voices? Teh scourge of teh Duke Nukem 3D Setup program, itself a pile of shit, for many a year.

TRY SOME SYSTEM 32 AND A SOURCEPORT.

[NeoNite]

Yeah after adding it to the bat file I checked my setup... and yes sc is on irq 5.
prboom is compatible with dos 1.9 doom for playing demos? All of them??

[deadnail]

prboom is compatible with dos 1.9 doom for playing demos? All of them??

Yes. I have my PRBoom set up to play .lmp files on a double click, with right click options to choose an iwad other than Doom 2. It works like a fucking dream!


However, PRBoom uses Timidity for midi, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. Do a Google for EAWPats and find Timidity. Download it. Unzip it to C:\Timidity. Find the complete EAWPats set, it's a 22 meg .rar file. Unrar it into C:\Timidity too. Ignore what they tell you. It's set up. Enjoy! =)