#25 No sound from anything

[Anonymous]

I'm running Windows XP with 1 Gb of memory, and I
downloaded VDMS to fix sound problems in several old
DOS games.

Unfortunately, I've never been able to get anything
to lauch via Explorer.

I'm running a SB Live! Platinum with nothing in my
Autoexec.bat or Config.sys.

When attempting to launch Doom2, I'm told that
VDDLoader.dll successfully loaded and initialized,
but I then see:

Game mode indeterminite.

Press any key to continue ...

When launching Blood, I get the following:

Stub exec failed:
dos4gw.exe
No such file or directory.

There is, in fact, a file called dos4gw.exe in the
Blood directory, but I guessed that the path was now
pointing to VDMSound. I tried copying dos4gw.exe to
the VDMSound directory. The error message went away,
but the DOS window closed itself almost immediately.

When launching Heretic, I get as far as:

W_Init: Init WAD files.

before the window freezes up.

Raptor made it as far as full screen before freezing
up.

I'd read that XP's native DOS-box sound sometime
interfered with VDMSound, so I attempted to disable
it in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\AUTOEXEC.NT by replacing:
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D3 H7 P330 T6
with
SET BLASTER=A0

Still no luck. Do you have any suggestions?

[Vlad ROMASCANU]

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Hello,
Please uninstall VDMSound, log in as user Administrator,
then reinstall VDMSound. If running your games as a
different user, then log in as that user (after having
installed VDMSound as Administrator) and from Control
Panel/Add Remove Programs choose to "repair" VDMSound (this
should create "Run with VDMS" for that user on Win2k and
XP).

Now, for Doom, Blood, Heretic & Co. (all games based on the
BUILD engine) you will have to get and use CLI2NOP (search
for CLI2NOP on groups.google.com), or else they will freeze
during startup. "Run with VDMS" should run the games in
the games' directory, not the VDMS one (otherwise "Run with
VDMS" won't work at all).

V.