Shadow Warrior (DOS) under WIn2kPro [SOUND]

[shassouneh 0]

Hi everyone. I can't get Shadow Warrior to work with sound under windows 2000 professional. The game itself will run, but it has issues working with my sound card. I have a SoundBlaster 16 compatible sound card (Creative Vibra PNP 16), and I have already Tried VDMSound 2.0.4. When I run the setup program (setup.exe or setmain.exe) under VDMSound it seems to pick up the sound card but fails the audio test (locks up).

If someone has figured out a way to have it work, please let me know.

Thanx

[DosFreak 2]

Nope. IIRC, only MIDI works. Sound locks it up. Will re-verify tonight. The only 100& best way to get it working is to boot into DOS or run it under Connectix Virtual PC. These ways give you full sound & VESA support.

[shassouneh 0]

Unfortunately, sice all my drives are formatted as NTFS, it is impossible for me to use a boot disk (win9x/me). Any other alternatives out there? the game is really not worth it without sound!

[FrogMaster 0]

Just wondering ... would it be possible to run it off a bootable cd while redirecting files that has to be write-accessed (cfg and saves) to a floppy or a zip?

Or boot from a zip with the full game on it - if bios allows?

Or boot from a floppy with main game files on a cd or a zip?

[shassouneh 0]

Well I'm not sure if you can trick it in such a way. And even if I COULD boot in such a way, my drives are partitioned as NTFS, so it will do me no good. Also, my BIOS is old, and does not support booting from a CD anyways. I tried updaing it, to no use!

The call is still one for people to find ways around this problem! keep posting!

[DosFreak 2]

Install Windows XP and you will have full sound/midi support (but no VESA).

[shassouneh 0]

I would love to be able to install windows XP. I tried installing a recent beta of it, but it asked for an "activation". I do not wish to activate a beta, and Windows Xp's retail price is expected to be hefty on the pocket ;-), so for now (at least) I will have to go by with whatever win2k can handle. Thanx for the reply though. I am aware that Windows XP has increased support for dos games. :-)