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Ra-Sep-Re-Tep -ur (2 posts) May-11-00, 06:29 PM (Pacific) "Bane on Win98" Has anyone had this problem? Know a fix? I am trying to play Bane on a Win98 machine. If I configure it to play without sound it works, but if I reconfigure the game to use soundblaster, it tells me I must restart in DOS mode to play. Problem is, my sound driver only works in Windows. Am I stuck, doomed never to hear my battles the way they were meant to sound? Or is there a way out of this without overhauling my sound setup? I can always go play on my old 386 with the PC speaker, which Sir-Tech used in superlative ways - I'd just prefer to have the full experience. You'd think the people who made the archives might have thought ahead to this ... it still works way way better than the Ultima archive though (Join me now, as I recite dire curses at Origin). Many thanks for any information.   Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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RE: Bane on Win98, Simon -ur, 04:27 AM, May-12-00, (1) Win98, The Bane!, Lord Gram, 12:17 PM, May-12-00, (2) RE: Win98, The Bane!, Ra-Sep-Re-Tep -ur, 08:25 AM, May-13-00, (3) RE: Win98, The Bane!, DrSlop, 08:33 AM, May-13-00, (4) RE: Win98, The Bane!, Surranó, 04:08 AM, May-29-00, (5)

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Simon -ur (2 posts) May-12-00, 04:27 AM (Pacific) 1. "RE: Bane on Win98" I had similar experience, there is no way to have Bane emit any sound on my machine. Whereas CoDS is no problem. Any old timer care to tell us how, hem, *beautiful* the sound is supposed to be? any music? Simon   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Lord Gram (259 posts) May-12-00, 12:17 PM (Pacific) 2. "Win98, The Bane!" I've been trying to get Bane to emit any kind of sound at all on my comp. I also have Win98, and I have not had any sucess, beyond figuring out how to play Bane without restarting in DOS mode (though it does get a little choppy). To play without DOS, point your shortcut to BANE.BAT, and under the advanced properties, uncheck all boxes. Presto, Bane under Win98. You might want to specify a setting for Mo'Slo, because it seems to pick a speed that is a bit slow when it tries to run it. (Just put a /20 or whatever after BANE.BAT)   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Ra-Sep-Re-Tep -ur (2 posts) May-13-00, 08:25 AM (Pacific) 3. "RE: Win98, The Bane!" Thanks for the suggestion. That almost did it. I actually got the game to run on Win98 with SB selected. Problem is, the sound is slowed waaaaay down. I've never heard anything like it - it's actually like you can hear it processing each individual one and zero. This happens even when I bypass moslo by launching wroot.exe directly. I also tried checking "prevent DOS program from detecting Windows," but no luck there either. Ah well, it's not as though the game is unplayable. I should count my blessings. So at this point, I'm ready to give up on the audio and wait for a Windows-friendly version to come along someday. Thanks very much for your help   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

DrSlop (297 posts) May-13-00, 08:33 AM (Pacific) 4. "RE: Win98, The Bane!" > So at this point, >I'm ready to give up >on the audio and wait >for a Windows-friendly version to >come along someday. My guess is you'll be waiting for a long, long time. The sound in Bane really isn't that spectacular -- just put a good "dungeon crawling" mood CD in your player and play without sound (recently I've been partial to Labradford's "A Stable Reference" or Trans Am's "Surrender to the Night"). To tell the truth, I usually end up turning the sound off on Wiz7, too, and on most games, for that matter. I find that I own music that I enjoy listening to much more than most game music, since by nature that has to be rather "generic" to fit many different situations. OE   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

Surranó (138 posts) May-29-00, 04:08 AM (Pacific) 5. "RE: Win98, The Bane!" Yeah, I met the very same problem, and it appears to have the problem with most old DOS-based games. Fortunately, my card works under DOS, BUT... For me, it seems that Bane either animates or emits sound, so with gate opens, it does a sequence of play the rustling sound - animate a phase - rustle - anim - rustle - anim... It seems that if it gets to the end of the sound, it starts again. Figured out this when somehow it worked, but I dunno how. I tried with AdLib and builtin speaker too, but the effect is the same. Do you have any tips how to synchronize audio & video? (hope my words could be understood...) -- Surranó aka Kender   Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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