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I am trying to get a legacy game to run on my XP machine. The game is "Dune II". In native XP I get no sounds or choppy sound, cutting ina nd out. I downloaded a DOS emulator and this is even worse. I have the VDMSound tool and this works partially as long as I do not use extended memory option on the install (causes "insufficient memory" after intro).
What I get is music only - no voice.
My sound HW is lagacy equivalent on-board and I have tried SB and SB PRO options.
Any hint appreciated.
lol that game is so old. i dont even think it works on XP.
3.2GHZ Intel Pentium EE 840
1GB Dual-channel DDR2-533 RAM
Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe mobo
2 EVGA E-Geforce 7800GTX
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi
550W PSU
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Any patches available?
I have an old game (Imperium Galactica 2). It would work with XP, but the sound was choppy and cutscenes were even worse.
Try this:
go to control panel, sounds and audio devices, click "advanced" under speaker settings, performance tab, set your hardware acceleration lower, one step at a time, until the games runs smoothly.
It worked fine for me until I found a patch for my game that allows it to work with XP.
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i have many old game that i wanna play back, but i couldnt install on XP as well. like quake 2. i wish i know how.
3.2GHZ Intel Pentium EE 840
1GB Dual-channel DDR2-533 RAM
Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe mobo
2 EVGA E-Geforce 7800GTX
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi
550W PSU
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http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1
This program rocks... It takes a little switching and proper usage of parameters every time you use it, but it allows you to play all those legacy games you know and love.
"Sleep is for the weak." - SSJKakarot
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Hello
I tried the dosbox thing and it did not work so well either. Funny thing is that using VDMSound
it worked 100% perfect only once - otherwise bombs with insufficient memory. I even tried setting the EXE to WIN95 compatability.
I'll look into that wizard thing. Looks interesting.
Thanks for all the tips. Worst case is to
create a WIN98 dual boot.
Regards
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Hi I use to be a big fan Dune but dune 2 was nothing but a pain in 98 and i would say you might have problems on xp since it did not work well on 98. Emperor Battle For Dune come out to early and relised the same time a yuri revenge RA2 witch was a expansion $30 bucks at the time or a whole new game for $90.
Because 700mhz was a top grade computer at the time and i had one i could play Emperor Battle For Dune, best game play in stratgery game still till this day, because there was so many units and if you did not play it 24/7 and learn how to use every unit you will get over run really quick, it alot like a moden chess game and i love chess but alot of people did not want to work out how to use all the units right and people found it to hard because of hardware being pushed as it is a 3d game like warcraft 3.
Plus almost everyone was playing RA at the time.If you want to play dune2 or EBFD go to this site it is the best dune help site on the internet http://dune2k.com/ you will find very helpfull people there.
Shame (westwood) shut down because Emperor Battle For Dune rules and (bilzard) Starcraft. Two of the best games of all time, in my books.
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Thanks for all the input.
I'll take a look at the www site and go from there. Funny that by writing a short BAT file and launching ramdrive.exe before calling the VDMSound program the game runs even though without the voice prompts and somewhat corrupted battle noises.
Regards / Peter
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