| 07-07-2006 10:14 AM | |
| Guest |
Update: It seems from speaking to my mom over july 4th that the original store bought version of countdown she used to play back in 1996/97 was giving her the invalid memory block error on windows 95 even then. So my guess is that countdown needs to be played on a comparable machine for the time period it came out in (1990). So I am going to dig out the "beast." Yes folks, time to bring out my top of the line Amiga 3000, which sits next to my 1985 Fujitsu FM 77 AV, Apple IIe, and a 486 that still plays tetris. Heh. |
| 27-06-2006 07:27 AM | |
| The Fifth Horseman |
 k: Congrats on dusting off that piece of hardware.
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| 27-06-2006 04:30 AM | |
| Guest | One more thing I forgot...the P2 machine IS running Windows 95, the sound card and all hardware is the same, completely setup to run as a 1997 machine. The exact same pc through and through.... |
| 27-06-2006 04:26 AM | |
| Guest | I think it's the download. I brought out a P2 300 mhz 64mb machine which was THE exact computer that I used to play it long ago and it still crashed. I'm going to try one more thing and that is to take the setup file and put it on a floppy and try installing the game just like I would if I had a hard copy instead of clicking the exe. The exe in the bundle has already been unzipped so maybe that's it. If this works then all of us countdown junkies can rejoice... |
| 23-06-2006 11:51 PM | |
| Guest | Thanks everyone. The config file was hidden which was why I couldn't find it at first...so now I'll see what I can do. |
| 23-06-2006 08:56 AM | |
| The Fifth Horseman | And I think the game has some sort of SETUP, CONFIG or similar executable in its directory. If not, have a look for sound options in the actual game. |
| 23-06-2006 01:12 AM | |
| Eagle of Fire | You need to change it in the Dosbox.conf file of DOSBox. |
| 22-06-2006 06:44 PM | |
| Guest | Thanks for the info but how do I change these settings? |
| 20-06-2006 10:27 AM | |
| The Fifth Horseman |
Wait. You mean it crashes at certain points when running with sound? When digitized speech is played, I presume? Check the IRQ and DMA settings in the game's soundcard config. They must match those in DosBox.conf. And the soundcard emulation too, advisable is SBPRO1 or 2 (Sound Blaster Pro). You might also want to reduce the amount of RAM emulated by DosBox, memsize=8 or if that still doesn't work, memsize=4. |
| 20-06-2006 03:09 AM | |
| Guest |
Yes, while dosbox does make the game run smoother it still has this particular error. It's a memory allocation error that occurs after the sanctuary escape whenever you get killed. I wonder if it's the download because even when I ran the game on a p2 300 with 64mb of ram it wouldn't run at all. vdm sound won't even get it past the into screen so dos box is the best bet. What I have done is save often and will play the game without sound to get past the areas in question and then quit the game and restart with sound until it crashes again. |
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