Mr.Snead

I finally got the VDMSound shortcut to work. It was basically user error. 1. Adding a VDMSound shortcut (GUI method) is done using the right-click on the file method. This wasn't all that obvious after downloading it and even reading the unstructions. (Note: the GUI wizard needs an additional component to be downloaded and installed before it works. Uykucu gives the link to the site where you can get both. 2. I hadn't used the DOS sound configuration program that ships with Colonization. It was set to NO SOUND. All I can say is "Doh!" 8) Now my fiancee and I are in retro-gaming bliss, grooving to classic midi tunes from the imperial period. 8)

I'm currently running Windows 2k Service Pack 3. My fiancee was able to install Colonization and run it from the CD but not from the C drive, and it would not let her save games. I discovered this two-pronged problem was two-fold. 1) The C drive was formatted using NTFS. Since NTFS was developed after Colonization was published, it didn't know how to read its supporting files off an NTFS drive. 2) The game ran off the CD because it knew how to read the game off the CD drive. However, the configuration file on the CD probably points to a location on the CD drive. Since the CD is write-protected...no saving was possible. SOLUTION: Install the game on a FAT16 or FAT32(*). I installed Colonization on the D drive (FAT32) and viola! The game now runs & savegames will work. ...but the sound problem remains! I tried downloading and installing VDMSound, but I can't figure out how the heck one is supposed to configure the blasted thing. According to an earlier poster, I'm supposed to feed VDMSound some configuration settings for my sound card, but I'm not sure how or where to do this. Even the vaunted VDMS Launchpad doesn't seem to help me out. ;( ;( ;( (*) For those not in the know: NTFS stands for NT Filesystem FATxx stands for File Allocation Table (the 16 means 16bit, 32 means 32 bit).