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GPL and SB AWE64

2 posts by 2 people · 02 May 1999 - 02 May 1999

Hi All, After I 'upgraded' form W95 to W98 GPL worked fine, but when I needed to reinstall GPL 3 months ago I suddenly got the message 'invalid CD'. Sierra tech support explained this as being a language conflict between Installshield and Windows and were unwilling to look furhter into it. DAMN SIERRA TECH SUPPORT! Now 3 months later I had to reinstall Windows due to some problems and guess what! GPL installed fine! There was no language conflict. I was so happy it finally worked again, I didn't even bother to properly install all my hardware. I just used all the standard drivers Windows installs during setup and GPL ran like dream. After three days of nearly non-stop driving around in my Ferrari I thought it was time to properly install all hardware. And now, after installing the latest drivers for my Soundblaster AWE64, GPL constanly crashes! I'm sure it's the soundcard, because when I remove it in the device manager and launch GPL everything works fine. But you all know it's impossible to drive well if you can't hear the car. Is there anyone who knows how to solve this problem? Any help will be greatly appreciated. I miss GPL! Thanks, Johan.
Mortado 02 May 1999#464986
On Sun, 02 May 1999 11:40:12 +0200, Johan Foederer
Quoted text (21 lines)>Hi All, >After I 'upgraded' form W95 to W98 GPL worked fine, but when I needed to >reinstall GPL 3 months ago I suddenly got the message 'invalid CD'. >Sierra tech support explained this as being a language conflict between >Installshield and Windows and were unwilling to look furhter into it. >DAMN SIERRA TECH SUPPORT! >Now 3 months later I had to reinstall Windows due to some problems and >guess what! GPL installed fine! There was no language conflict. I was so >happy it finally worked again, I didn't even bother to properly install >all my hardware. I just used all the standard drivers Windows installs >during setup and GPL ran like dream. >After three days of nearly non-stop driving around in my Ferrari I >thought it was time to properly install all hardware. And now, after >installing the latest drivers for my Soundblaster AWE64, GPL constanly >crashes! I'm sure it's the soundcard, because when I remove it in the >device manager and launch GPL everything works fine. But you all know >it's impossible to drive well if you can't hear the car. Is there anyone >who knows how to solve this problem?
Try going to Start-Settings-Control Panel-Multimedia-Advanced and decreasing the hardware acceleration. The same thing happened to me after installing the new reference drivers for another type of sound card and this was the only way I could run GPL.before reverting to the older drivers. Chris "How can you run from a dead person, unless you're dead yourself?" -Venus in Furs --Horrornews--Horrorchat--Reviews--General filth-- Mortado's Page of Filth http://www.shadows.com/mortado/

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