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- From: mmenn@convex.com (Michael J. Menninger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games
- Subject: Help with UW sound!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.185626.14820@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:56:26 GMT
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- Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
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- I recently bought Ultima Underworld because I've played most of the Ultima
- games and I heard so many great things about it on the net. Unfortunately,
- I'm having one MAJOR problem with it: I can't get the music or sounds to work!!
-
- I've installed the game on a 486 33 with a Soundblaster board (220h & IRQ 5).
-
- After typing 'uw', it quickly flashes the following lines:
- EMS allocated
- sound system initialization failed
- Then it continues on to the game.
- I get the voices during the introduction, but the rest of the game is silent.
-
- Clicking the 'ON' button in the sound and music menus under options has no
- effect. (It won't even highlight the buttons.)
-
- I tried changing the jumper on the SB to IRQ 7 (which UW considers to be the
- the default mode) and even re-installing the game after the change. But still
- no sound. I've tried the Adlib option with the same results. It did allow
- me to turn the sound on in the PC speaker mode but I don't think I'm ready to
- settle for that.
-
- I did change (and save) the configuration with 'uwsound' and it verifies that
- it correctly finds everything.
-
- I don't believe it's a SB problem because it works fine on my other games
- (including Ultima7).
-
- Of course, Origin's customer service line is forever busy.
-
- If anyone has come across this problem or has ANY ideas, PLEASE let me know.
- It looks like a great game but I'm only experiencing half of it.
-