Jimmy-Z
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3 weeks ago update: I did more tinkering
- laptop is thinkpad x230, cpu i5-3210m, intel hda.
- freedos 1.3 on a usb stick.
- other popular games like doom, quake, duke nukem 3d seems to be working fine.
- I only tested shareware/demo versions, so quake doesn't have cd music, but sound effects sounds fine.
- /K44100, no effect
- /FIXTC, no effect
- /T6, no effect
- /I5, no effect
- as a side note, in hwinfo:
- 5 is listed as free(LPT2)
- 7 is used (onboard ethernet, not plugged, tried to disable it in bios/uefi setting, doesn't work)
- 9 is used (rerouted irq 2)
- as a side note, in hwinfo:
- reload bios default, no effect
- /I9, worse, music still works, but sound effects is disabled, not even noise.
- other games I tried to test doesn't support setting irq to 9.
- use himemx.sys instead of jemmex, and disable real mode support, even worse, music is gone.
- I don't quite understand, this is supposedly a protected mode game, but I could be wrong on this.
- doom, quake, duke nukem 3d still works.
- descent setup.exe, this is the only other thing I tested that sound effects also doesn't work.
- in setup.exe, select "Test Digital Sound Card", I can hear noise coming out on the center/left/right channel respectively
- on dosbox it's a woman's voice saying "seven"
- in game sound effects sounds ok, however
- I'm sure when I tested this for the first few times, it worked, but after some tinkering it now doesn't, I'm pretty sure I've reverted all settings, I don't know, maybe I should doubt my memory.
- in setup.exe, select "Test Digital Sound Card", I can hear noise coming out on the center/left/right channel respectively
- descent 2, with a setup.exe looking very similar to 1, however, it works fine, I can hear the woman's voice saying "zero" clearly.
- /VOL9, since default volume is so low, but I can hear the "seven" in descent setup.exe vaguely covered under the noise now.
- after all these tinkering, the noise pattern is different now, and I can't seem to get it back to the "white noise" pattern.
First of all, thank you for this amazing software!
The game is probably not very well known in the west but it's the most prominent DOS game in China back in the late 90s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Sword_and_Fairy_(video_game)
Adlib music works fine, but various sound effects sound like white noise (with a little variation, if that makes sense), like a while after you start a new game, after some dialogue your aunt will hit you with a pan, and all battle sound effects (needs to proceed a bit further into the game).
I tried this on two of my older laptops, both with Intel HDA, both had this issue.
Then I tried this in 86box with Sound Blaster PCI 128 (ES1373) with sbemu, sound effects works fine.
1.0.0 beta 5 on a bare minimum of freedos 1.3, settings are according to readme.txt.