F1GP and SB-Live soundcard??????

Hi! a question: have anyone of you had any probs running GP1 (F1 racing game) with the SB Live (value)? The engine sound in the game is sounding terrible with a Soundblaster LIVE soundcard? The car sounds very dim and like the mowing of a cow (not joking!). I run Windows 95 OSR2 and thus have also tried to run it in MS-dos-modes (also the most extreme dos-mode in which the computer completely reboots). But still with no improvement. The soundblaster LIVE loads a Soundblaster 16 compatible driver for older games supprt, but obviously this one is not very realistic, because my previous card WAS a true SB 16 and had no probs with this game whatsoever.. Any suggestions? Thanks! Erik -------------------------------------------- Erik van Duijn Katwijk, Holland --------------------------------------------

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>Hi! >a question: >have anyone of you had any probs running GP1 (F1 racing game) with the >SB Live (value)? The engine sound in the game is sounding terrible with >a >Soundblaster LIVE soundcard? The car sounds very dim and like the mowing

Unless the you are using digital sound the SB Live will probably not emulate an old SB FM synth properly. This is why the engine is crap. The old ensoniq cards did this with IRC2. My AudioPCI plays the proper engine sound in the DOS IRC2 though. Get a new/different soundcard or get used to cow sounds :-) -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. cisko [AT] ix [DOT] netcom [DOT] com

Hi, I noticed the same. I think the point is that GP1 does NOT support the Sound Blaster cards as such. Look again at the options for GP1, they are PC speaker, AdLib & Roland Synth. It works fine on my ISA SB16 which emulates AdLib, but I've got all sorts of weird things happening on more modern cards. Presumably, because although they support older Sound Blaster modes, they have dropped the AdLib emulation. Regards, Colin

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> >Hi! > >a question: > >have anyone of you had any probs running GP1 (F1 racing game) with the > >SB Live (value)? The engine sound in the game is sounding terrible with > >a > >Soundblaster LIVE soundcard? The car sounds very dim and like the mowing > >of a cow (not joking!). > >I run Windows 95 OSR2 and thus have also tried to run it in MS-dos-modes > >(also the most extreme dos-mode in which the computer completely > >reboots). But still with no improvement. The soundblaster LIVE loads a > >Soundblaster 16 compatible driver for older games supprt, but obviously > >this one is not very realistic, because my previous card WAS a true SB > >16 and had no probs with this game whatsoever.. > >Any suggestions?

F1GP does support SoundBlaster cards. The list of sound options are:- [1] ... PC Speaker [2] ... AdLib [3] ... Sound Blaster [4] ... Roland MT-32/LAPC-1 It works on my SoundBlaster 16. --------- http://www.grandprix1.com - Everything for Microprose F1GP http://www.gp3.org - The Grand Prix 3 Site http://www.racinglinks.net - Racing Sim Banner Exchange