Cyrix and ICR2 Problems

My father has a Cyrix 6x86 and picked up ICR2. Loaded it in DOS . When you boot the game Paul Page comes on sounding like a 33lp playing at 78 or like the Chipmunks. Is ICR2 compatible w/ Cyrix chip? In setup mode when testing soundcard it sounds fine. Is it the computer or the soundcard.? enough (he has a 133) Any suggestions or answers to ??? appreciated. He dying to race. Also wants NASCAR 2 hopefully that will run ok. Thanks, Rich Stranzl #14 IVL Series Champion

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> My father has a Cyrix 6x86 and picked up ICR2. Loaded it in DOS . When you > boot the game Paul Page comes on sounding like a 33lp playing at 78 or like > the Chipmunks. > Is ICR2 compatible w/ Cyrix chip? In setup mode when testing soundcard it > sounds fine. Is it the computer or the soundcard.? > enough (he has a 133) Any suggestions or answers to ??? appreciated. He > dying to race. Also wants NASCAR 2 hopefully that will run ok. > Thanks, > Rich Stranzl #14 > IVL Series Champion

I think you should buy your 'pops' an INTEL chip for XMAS :-)

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> > My father has a Cyrix 6x86 and picked up ICR2. Loaded it in DOS . When you > > boot the game Paul Page comes on sounding like a 33lp playing at 78 or like > > the Chipmunks. > > Is ICR2 compatible w/ Cyrix chip? In setup mode when testing soundcard it > > sounds fine. Is it the computer or the soundcard.? > > enough (he has a 133) Any suggestions or answers to ??? appreciated. He > > dying to race. Also wants NASCAR 2 hopefully that will run ok. > > Thanks, > > Rich Stranzl #14 > > IVL Series Champion > I think you should buy your 'pops' an INTEL chip for XMAS :-)

Save your money, I have a Cyrix 166+ and a sound blaster 16 running in windows 95 and it works just fine in the MS-Dos mode. I also had a Cyrix 133+ and it worked fine with that one. It might be how much RAM you have or how fast his HD is.

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>My father has a Cyrix 6x86 and picked up ICR2. Loaded it in DOS . When you >boot the game Paul Page comes on sounding like a 33lp playing at 78 or like >the Chipmunks. >Is ICR2 compatible w/ Cyrix chip? In setup mode when testing soundcard it >sounds fine. Is it the computer or the soundcard.? >enough (he has a 133) Any suggestions or answers to ??? appreciated. He >dying to race. Also wants NASCAR 2 hopefully that will run ok.

I don't think it's your Cyrix. I have an Intel P133, and Paul Page's voiceover sounds terrible. But it's the only thing that sounds bad. The game performs like a champ. I just figured they made a really bad recording... Play away, and just don't worry about the opening screen. Curt ps: I have the Verite ICR2 as well.

> My father has a Cyrix 6x86 and picked up ICR2. Loaded it in DOS . When you > boot the game Paul Page comes on sounding like a 33lp playing at 78 or like > the Chipmunks. I have the same problem with my Cyrix 200+/Ensoniq Soundscape. Sierra's response was "You're sound card must not be set up correctly, call Ensoniq" even though it works fine with every other piece of software I own. I'm not playing ICR2 right now... Jason

I think you're sound problem is that you have a PnP sound card that isn't getting configured properly when you exit from Win95 into MS-DOS mode. There is a file called "exit to dos pif" which is the file that configures you're card for DOS if it's PnP. Also, check you're dosstart.bat file. You may need to load a sound card driver from there.