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- From: bjornhk@dhhalden.no (BJORN HAAVARD KLEVEN)
- Subject: Re: GUS problems
- Message-ID: <bjornhk.119.724516314@dhhalden.no>
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- References: <92348.215049RSDASTIC@MTUS5.BITNET> <92350.085706MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 14:31:54 GMT
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- In article <92350.085706MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu> Matthew E. Bernold <MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 08:57:06 EST
- >From: Matthew E. Bernold <MEB117@psuvm.psu.edu>
- >Subject: Re: GUS problems
- >In article <markus.328.724348143@clement.info.umoncton.ca>,
- >markus@clement.info.umoncton.ca (MARC PAULIN) says:
- >> I tried to reproduce your problem on my GUS yesterday. It turned
- >>out that the factory setting for the DMA channel was the cause of the
- >>problems with Star Control II (music sounds weird, wrong patches played,
- >>static, etc). The factory setting is DMA 1. I changed it to DMA 5 and
- >>everything works just fine. Try it...
- >> ____
- >Originally, I had GUS on DMA 1, and after between 5 and 20 minutes of playing
- >StarControl2 (Usually after being attacked while traveling in hyperspace) the
- >game would start playing the wrong patches for almost everything. This
- >problem would get progressively worse as I kept on playing until I was getting
- >so much garbage out, that there wasn't any music left. At that point, I'd
- >save&quit, run ultrinit.exe, and restart. Then it would work for the next
- >5-20 minutes before it died again.
- >
- >Yesterday, I decided to try one of the 16-bit DMA channels, so I switched GUS
- >to DMA 5 (Before I read Mark's article) to try some recording at 44kHz stereo.
- >Later on, I played StarCon2, and instead of the wrong patches playing, I got
- >bursts of static through the left speaker every so often. This happened about
- >5-6 times, and then stopped. I played non-stop for almost 5 more hours with
- >spotless sound. That evening, I ran it again, and got the static bursts again
- >after about 15 minutes, and this time, they kept on going.
- >
- >What I DO know about this, is that Dan Nicholson told me that a patch was
- >being worked on. Hopefully this will come out soon, and will fix both of
- >these problems.
-
- How much memory do you have on your GUS?
-
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