Does VDMSound work?

[Maetryx]

Maetryx here,

Anybody get these two playing nice together? I've been trying to get digital sound effects back into my old DOS games under WinXP, and VDMSound is supposed to do exactly that.

But so far no good. Every game I've tried it on (Blood, Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D) stops exactly when the first sound effect is supposed to occur. I've tried a lot of different SoundBlaster settings (BTW, VDMSound emulates a SoundBlaster), edited the .ini file and basically have done everything obvious.

So. Does anyone know if this simply doesn't work with the Hercules Game Theater? That almost can't be the case because the software is supposed to be hardware independent. But anyway. Anyone?

 

[Maetryx]

Okay, how about a story about how someone has this working just fine on *any* sound card? Help me out here. I'm a diamond member for goodness' sake.

 

[Maetryx]

Whoa oh I'm talking to my sel elf whoa oh talking to my sel elf.

 

[PrincessGuard]

I've only gotten it to work with Monkey Island 1, using AdLib emulation I think.

If the games support it, try using another type of sound card.

 

[Maetryx]

Thanks PrincessGuard. Did it do digital sound effects or just music? I can get it to do music already, but not the digital sound effects. Adlib I think is just a music (i.e. FM) card. I'm not sure though.

 

[CalebTG]

No luck with Blood using a C-Media 8738 sound card tried configuring the vdsm.ini and .bat files to odd irqs etc to no avail

Best I could do is general midi worked with windows drivers on port 0x330
Sound works, but it is so delayed and choppy that its not worth having.