Can't get sound running in Blood anymore
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:18 am
Okay, here's my situation.
I've gotten blood to work before following the instructions at http://www.deathmask.net/buildxp/, but now I can't. There are two differences between then and now that I can see:
1) I was using the underdogs rip of One Whole Unit of Blood before, but now I dug out my old Blood and Blood Plasma Pak cd's and I'm using those.
2) I've got a new computer, running XP SP2 and a Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 High Definition 6.1 Surround
What happens when I click the VDMS shortcut supplied by deathmask is it starts to load, showing the Blood config dos window (where it says things like "Loading tiles" "initializing sound system") then it quits instantly before the game finishes loading.
I can get into the game if I tell setup I have no soundcard, and play with only music, but I'd prefer to get sound running too.
The only other things I can think of to add is that if I tell Blood Setup to Test Sound FX Card, with the IRQ set at 7, it says:
"Playback failed, possibly due to an invalid or conflicting IRQ"
Whereas if I Test Sound FX Card with the IRQ set at 5, it kind of plays the sounds, in a very staccato and partial sense. This is what I remember it doing before, when it worked on my old PC.
But if I run Blood with the IRQ set to 5, it quits with this error:
"src\sound.cpp(516): Playback failed, possibly due to an invalid or conflicting IRQ"
So, anyone got any ideas?
I've gotten blood to work before following the instructions at http://www.deathmask.net/buildxp/, but now I can't. There are two differences between then and now that I can see:
1) I was using the underdogs rip of One Whole Unit of Blood before, but now I dug out my old Blood and Blood Plasma Pak cd's and I'm using those.
2) I've got a new computer, running XP SP2 and a Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 High Definition 6.1 Surround
What happens when I click the VDMS shortcut supplied by deathmask is it starts to load, showing the Blood config dos window (where it says things like "Loading tiles" "initializing sound system") then it quits instantly before the game finishes loading.
I can get into the game if I tell setup I have no soundcard, and play with only music, but I'd prefer to get sound running too.
The only other things I can think of to add is that if I tell Blood Setup to Test Sound FX Card, with the IRQ set at 7, it says:
"Playback failed, possibly due to an invalid or conflicting IRQ"
Whereas if I Test Sound FX Card with the IRQ set at 5, it kind of plays the sounds, in a very staccato and partial sense. This is what I remember it doing before, when it worked on my old PC.
But if I run Blood with the IRQ set to 5, it quits with this error:
"src\sound.cpp(516): Playback failed, possibly due to an invalid or conflicting IRQ"
So, anyone got any ideas?