Re: Please help Failed to initialize Creative ALchemy, falling back to dsound.dll on Wine 6.20 on Linux

Posted on 2021-11-14, 18:35

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ALchemy 1.00.8 Universal ALchemy 1.10.01 First free version ALchemy 1.45.03 Universal Loaded C:\Program Files\Diablo II Shareware\DSOUND.ini SYSTEM INFORMATION ================== Windows 6.1 2.096GHz Processor DirectSoundEnumerateA DirectSoundCreate Using Creative Software 3D Library …

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Re: Please help Failed to initialize Creative ALchemy, falling back to dsound.dll on Wine 6.20 on Linux

Posted on 2021-11-13, 19:04

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Alchemy 1.45.12 & HOAL 2.02.93 found in SBP3_PCDRV_L12_1_01_06 Alchemy dsound.dll 2.4.2.12: 0x64A10 -> 0x40 0xC3 Force Passtrough to ct_oal.dll 0x18480 -> 0x40 0xC3 Sens_oal (32bit) 2.02.20.3093: 0xE0A70 -> 0x40 0xC3 Sens_oal (64bit) 2.02.20.3093: 0x118A30-> 0x40 0xC3 Using above changes on Wine …

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Re: Please help Failed to initialize Creative ALchemy, falling back to dsound.dll on Wine 6.20 on Linux

Posted on 2021-11-05, 15:56

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Tried more things and still nothing: DisableNativeAL=true in dsound.ini GenKGA3.exe and put 35 generated files to ~/.wine/drive_c/ProgramData/Creative/SoftwareLock 6:49:15.110 Initializing sound engine... 16:49:15.129 Driver: PulseAudio 16:49:15.130 Module: ct_oal.dll Loaded C:\Program Files (x86)\ …

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Please help Failed to initialize Creative ALchemy, falling back to dsound.dll on Wine 6.20 on Linux

Posted on 2021-11-05, 12:43

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Hi, I try to play Diablo II Shareware 1.04 (Diablo2Demo.zip) on Linux SUSE Tumbleweed with Wine 6.20-staging. It works very good in Glide mode using glide3x.dll wrapper from gl32ogl14e.zip and EAX (alsoft.ini, dsoal-aldrv.dll dsound.dll from dsoal-latest.7z) I would like to make it working great …

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Re: Munt with dosbox in Linux

Posted on 2007-10-09, 07:43

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Someone made a patch for this: "i386.cpp:142: error: unknown register name ‘xmm3’ in ‘asm’ " error? My Linux distro does not have gcc 3 anymore.

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Re: let's compare our PCI-E cards in terms of DOS modes and compatibility

Posted on 2007-08-20, 20:28

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Manufacturer name: MSI Graphics card name: MSI FX5200-TD64 GPU name: Geforce FX5200 AGP Comment: mode 0x0F has a bug: vertical lines on screen. The underline attribute in text mode does not work. I compared vbediag output of MSI FX5200-TD64 and Asus A8N-VM CSM. Except: OEM software rev: 4.52 to 5.81 …

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Re: Voodoo 3/4/5: DVI?

Posted on 2007-08-20, 09:39

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DVI specification was officially released in April 1999. So only cards released after April 1999 can have DVI. It is worth to know that sometimes card's manufacturers were adding DVI to GPUs released before year 1999. The oldest one I found is Riva TNT2 from Creative. It is just a matter of sticking …

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Re: let's compare our PCI-E cards in terms of DOS modes and compatibility

Posted on 2007-08-20, 00:29

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@jthieme: impressive, thank you. Interesting. To my surprise ATI has so many modes - more than Nvidia. Another interesting thing is ATI/AMD has Vesa 3.0 support now. This is new (before only Nvidia, Voodoo, S3 Savage and recently Intel and Matrox since G550 used to have vesa 3.0). If you see older …

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Re: let's compare our PCI-E cards in terms of DOS modes and compatibility

Posted on 2007-08-17, 14:27

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I found some tests on the net: == VBEDIAG v0.1 == VESA VBE version 2.00 OEM: 'ATI RADEON 9600 PRO' Capabilities: 00000001 = 8bitdac Total memory: 16777216 bytes = 16384 KiB = 16 MiB OEM software rev: 01.00 OEM vendor name: 'ATI Technologies Inc.' OEM product name: 'V350' OEM product rev: '01.00' …

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Re: let's compare our PCI-E cards in terms of DOS modes and compatibility

Posted on 2007-08-17, 14:16

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People still use VDMSound and NTVDM? How quaint..... Are you requesting that people boot into MS-DOS to run these utilities or do you want them to run them from NTVDM? I use. Dosbox is too slow and not always necessary. 80% of my games works fast in vdms so why not using it. Pure DOS is the best …

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let's compare our PCI-E cards in terms of DOS modes and compatibility

Posted on 2007-08-17, 13:30

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Good graphics card for DOS should have many screen modes and display them correctly. For people using VDMS for games it is important as only sound is emulated and video compatibility/quality depends on vbios of your graphics card (not so much on GPU as people may think). So if you have some time run …

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Re: svga or vesa text mode

Posted on 2007-08-17, 12:43

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Pretty sure Geforce cards have good support for all the vesa modes, and they run the normal real DOS text mode fine. Not integrated Geforces. I have Geforce 6150 (integrated on Asus A8N-VM CSM mobo) and vga graphics in fire & ice game http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/fire-ice is like a bit soup ( …

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svga or vesa text mode

Posted on 2007-08-16, 18:05

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I have Geforce 6150 and can not find vesa or svga text modes. Do you know any application which could show me them? I tried vgatest.exe and it has vesa text at no. 8 position but none modes are found. I need text mode: 1024x768 at 16 colors (may be more colors) for my Linux console. Vesa gfx modes …

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Re: mouse: inport;serial;PS/2 -which one wastes less CPU resources?

Posted on 2007-02-03, 19:30

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The best is PS/2 because: -LPC chip on motherboard decodes the packets which mouse sends (as original i8042 keyboard & mouse controller does). -As for hardware resources only rarely used IRQ12 is required for mouse (mouse uses i/o already used for keyboard: 60-64h). serial mouse disadvantages: - …

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Re: mouse: inport;serial;PS/2 -which one wastes less CPU resources?

Posted on 2007-02-03, 17:23

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You forgot USB mice. USB is not working in DOS. USB is not present in older computers. USB wastes the most CPU cycles and system resources in comparison to the other mouse types of connection (up to ~14% on modern machines are ate by usb mouse). The CPU consumption of other mouse connections is …

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mouse: inport;serial;PS/2 -which one wastes less CPU resources?

Posted on 2007-02-03, 16:43

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Which type of mouse connection wastes less CPU/Computer resources? Inport - a special ISA card with special mouse, does not hog CPU as bus mouse, serial - ordinary older mouse connected to RS-232C port known as COM1 PS/2 - ordinary round mini plug with 6 pins. Very popular today.

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Re: Any games with PGA or 8514/A gfx modes support?

Posted on 2006-07-17, 11:06

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None of games uses PGA or 8514/A

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Re: Looking for prepgame file

Posted on 2006-07-14, 20:49

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OK I have it. I had to install GUS PnP recent driver from gravis ftp.

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Re: Looking for prepgame file

Posted on 2006-07-14, 20:25

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Maybe someone who has Driver CD for GUS PnP will share such file? file name should be prepgame.exe It patches dos4gw.exe and some other files but knowing whats wrong with dos4gw could help us to recover not only GUS PnP but other soundcards like SB16 for example which only works without drrriting in …

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Re: Looking for prepgame file

Posted on 2006-07-14, 20:19

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That was GUS patch bank. I have it. Prepgame comes from driver package of GUS PnP and fixes dos4gw.exe problem with 16bit DMA. Such fix could be good to heal many dos4gw games like setlers2 which has broken high dma due to broken dos4gw.

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