«

[feminista]

This is a game I've been wanting to play forever, and I finally got it all installed and running under DOSBox, and the game speed in general is great, but the text only remains onscreen for a fraction of a second, and there are no voiceovers, despite the "voice" option being on. I've tried cranking down the CPU cycles as low as possible (at 50% it's a tiny bit slower but still not readable, at 5% other things in the game start to mess up), and changing the in-game text speed option does pretty much nothing.

It's the CD version, but I'm running it on linux, so DOSBox is my only option without having a windows 98 disc on hand.

Any ideas?

I've got the CD version myself, and ran it in DOSBox recently without problems. (5th Horseman speaking, BTW)
Here's a couple ideas:

1. Core=Normal; cycles=12000; cycleup=1000; cycledown=1000
More control over emulator speed.
2. Scaler=hq2x; fullscreen=true; fullresolution=1024x768
Will add some extra load to your CPU, while making the game a little prettier.
3. Run game's setup program and configure the soundcard correctly.
If the sound is not set up right, you may experience problems.

[feminista]

QUOTE(Guest @ Nov 5 2007, 09:35 AM) [snapback]318283[/snapback]

I've got the CD version myself, and ran it in DOSBox recently without problems. (5th Horseman speaking, BTW)
Here's a couple ideas:

1. Core=Normal; cycles=12000; cycleup=1000; cycledown=1000
More control over emulator speed.
2. Scaler=hq2x; fullscreen=true; fullresolution=1024x768
Will add some extra load to your CPU, while making the game a little prettier.
3. Run game's setup program and configure the soundcard correctly.
If the sound is not set up right, you may experience problems.
[/b]

Well, that did make it prettier, but it's nowhere near solving the problem. Like I said, music is fine, game speed is fine, interaction is fine, it's just that the text won't stay on screen and there are no voices. I have DOSBox set to emulate a Soundblaster Pro, and the game settings the same, IRQ/DMA is right, alsa is talking to my virtual midi device. I can't think of anything else to change.

[Data]

you mounted your cdrom correctly ?

e.g mount d /cdrom -t cdrom -usecd 0
?

The solution that worked for me:

imgmount d: c:/(installation path)/GK1.gog -t iso

[Eagle of Fire]

Thank you. I'm sure that those guys from 5 years ago will appreciate your input...

I guess not, but some others might.

[Eagle of Fire]

I doubt it since

1) Good Old Games didn't even exist back then

2) Dosbox version changed so often since then that it's not even the same thing anymore.

Originally Posted by Eagle of Fire

I doubt it since

1) Good Old Games didn't even exist back then

2) Dosbox version changed so often since then that it's not even the same thing anymore.

Writing from 5 years more in the future! That input actually helped me, as I was trying to not use my own version of DosBox instead of GOG's, because I'm trying to streamline my experience of playing old video games all from the LaunchBox interface.

I hadn't accounted for that GK1.gog file and couldn't understand why GOG's inbuilt DropBox worked while mine didn't!

Waiting for someone else to post in 5 more years!