rec.autos.simulators

A friend is having a problem with the sound in Nascar Racing on his
Packard Bell Legend 401CD. This problem did not occur under MS-DOS
6.22, only win95. He gets no sound except the exit music unless he
goes to the nascar set-up program and configures the sound card before
he starts the game. It seems like the game is not storing the sound
card set-up.Anyone come accross this before? Anyone have any advice
for this poor soul with a Packard Hell (I mean Bell)?

Any suggestions (except ditch the computer) are greatly appreciated!

Mark

Mark,

        If the sound card is a SB16 then it may be that you need to
run the diagnose program that came with the card, with the /s
parm.  This inits the sound card.  Also ensure that the BLASTER env
variable is set.

Bob

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Bob Mallett
Remember: While the Arc was built by amateurs, it was professionals
          who built the Titanic - Richard Needham M.P.

I wrote Papyrus tech support with the same problem and here is what
they said:

"You can't run the game from within Win95. That's probably the
problem.
You need to RESTART IN MSDOS MODE. It's really the only way that the
game
has a chance to run properly."

Hope this helps

JC

: >A friend is having a problem with the sound in Nascar Racing on his
: >Packard Bell Legend 401CD. This problem did not occur under MS-DOS
: >6.22, only win95. He gets no sound except the exit music unless he
: >goes to the nascar set-up program and configures the sound card before
: >he starts the game. It seems like the game is not storing the sound
: >card set-up.Anyone come accross this before? Anyone have any advice
: >for this poor soul with a Packard Hell (I mean Bell)?
: >
: >Any suggestions (except ditch the computer) are greatly appreciated!
: >
: >Mark
: >
: >

Are you running NASCAR in a Windows environment, or in DOS mode?  I had
the same type of problem with my IBM clone.  What I found out is that the
settings used by Windows for the soundcard are different from the settings
used in DOS mode.  What I had to do was start the computer in DOS mode,
not just a DOS window in Windows, and then configure the sound for the game.
Once I had done that, it worked fine.

Hope this helps.

-Dirt-