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- From: am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis)
- Subject: GUS kills Windows 386 Enhanced mode!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.224545.26515@news.columbia.edu>
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- Reply-To: am66@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Alexander Maldutis)
- Organization: Columbia University
- References: <1992Dec12.080507.9247@cc.umontreal.ca>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:45:45 GMT
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- Hi! I recently got the GUS, and am impressed by the sound quality [most of the
- time]. The GUS emits two clicks before playing any sort of .mid sound, and
- squeaks when starting and stopping sounds in Starcon2. But otherwise, the
- board works nicely, and does better DACing than the SB. Also, I have some
- games which fail with the SB and work with the GUS [Battles of Destiny comes
- to mind]. If I can get it to work under OS/2, then I will finally realize my
- dream of playing Falcon3 - it had failed to work at all under DOS [namely the
- digitized sounds were very slow - probably my 486-50 EISA moboard speed], and
- without sound under OS/2.
-
- But, my main bizarrotronic sistuation is that it killed my Win31 enhanced mode
- operation. After I installed the card, I could not run Win. I then removed
- the card, and still could not run it. I reinstalled Win, and could not run it
- then either. On a whine, I loaded Win with the /s parameter, and voila - it
- works. However, the big problem is that the GUS drivers are for enh mode.
-
- I tried a fix my one of my friends suggested, namely the VirtualHDIrq=Off
- setting in the system.ini file, but that did not work either.
-
- Incidentally, when I say win does not work, it means that it dumps me back into
- DOS just at the point at which the windows background should appear.
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- My system - 486-50 EISA, 16mb RAM, AMI FASTSCSI-C controller w/ 1mb, Roland
- LAPC-1, the GUS, Diamond Speedstar Plus, ATI 8514 Ultra.
-
- I run win only with XMS, not EMS [EMS screws up Stunt Island, Ultima7,
- Comanche Max Overkill]. So no QEMM problems or anything.
-
- Any help would be phenomenally appreciated.
-
- Regards,
- ***LeX the InFinitely UnDefined (Compiler of the Dictionary of the UnDefined)**
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