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N1: Sound card problem

4 posts by 4 people · 31 Jan 1998 - 01 Feb 1998

Well I just installed Nascar Racing for the first time in a couple of years (been playing Nascar 2). I am having a huge problem get the game to recognize my AWE 64 soundcard. I've tried every available card option and made sure my port, IRQ, and dma addresses are correct. I have plenty of conventional memory, and have NO EMS selected. In Win 95 the setup program recognizes the card fine.(Too bad I can't run in Win95) In DOS, it doesn't recognize the card in setup and will hang the system during boot. Perhaps you could offer a suggestion, or have heard of someone else having this challenge? Any advice would be appreciated. I'm desperate to dirt race, but without sound, it wouldn't be the same! Ken
First, disable the sound card in Nascar setup and see if the game will run fine. Then, try telling it you have s soundblaster pro, with port 220, irq 5 or 7, and dma1. Let me know if this works. If it does, you can start working your way up the soundcard ladder with those settings.
Ken 31 Jan 1998#394788
The game runs fine without the card. I've tried telling it I have a sound card pro and every other card there. 220, 5, 1 are my settings. This problem now seems to go beyond Nascar 1. Now I'm having this prob with other games. I could post or send a copy of my config.sys and autoexec.bat if you can tell anything from those. They look fine to me, but maybe I'm missing something. What's weird is the game runs fine (very slow frame rate though...on a P300!) in a Dos window and it sees the card just fine It doesn't see it and hangs when starting the game in pure Dos mode though... Ken The Game Pad http://gamepad.org/ > First, disable the sound card in Nascar setup and see if the game will run > fine. Then, try telling it you have s soundblaster pro, with port 220, irq > 5 or 7, and dma1. Let me know if this works. If it does, you can start > working your way up the soundcard ladder with those settings.
Trips 01 Feb 1998#394933
Quoted text (20 lines)> The game runs fine without the card. I've tried telling it I have a sound card > pro and every other card there. 220, 5, 1 are my settings. This problem now > seems to go beyond Nascar 1. Now I'm having this prob with other games. I > could post or send a copy of my config.sys and autoexec.bat if you can tell > anything from those. They look fine to me, but maybe I'm missing something. > What's weird is the game runs fine (very slow frame rate though...on a P300!) > in a Dos window and it sees the card just fine It doesn't see it and hangs when > starting the game in pure Dos mode though... > Ken > The Game Pad > http://gamepad.org/ > > First, disable the sound card in Nascar setup and see if the game will run > > fine. Then, try telling it you have s soundblaster pro, with port 220, irq > > 5 or 7, and dma1. Let me know if this works. If it does, you can start > > working your way up the soundcard ladder with those settings.
Try adding the following line to your "dosstart.bat" file: SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T2 (that assumes address 220, IRQ5 and DMA1... you may need to adjust those values to match your setup) Trips

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