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| A friend of mine recently built a pc. Everything went smoothly. He put on
Win2k, a load of software and then connected up his old HDD as a slave to
fish off any documents ect. He had a folder with games in it. Real basic
type games. The same sort of quality that come with windows.
I said he could have problem playing them cos they werent installed.
He dragged the folder of games onto the new HDD, and clicked on each of the
individual game files. Some played OK.
When he clicked one off the files, all the sound in the pc turned into a
high distortion and some of the video media files were just a distorted
mess.
All from one game?
Installed Win2K again and this time no problem.
Any ideas guys.
Many thanks
Darren
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I did have something like that happen to me, but with win 98 a while ago.
I bought some old PC games, Pinball mania, and pinball dreams which I
had when I had an Amiga. He may solve it if the games have a set up option
for sound. As these old games has old sound card options. If I can remember,
I think I chose SoundBlaster Pro. That caused the problem. The volume was so
high,
that it distorted it. There was no SB Awe 64 option. I solved it by choosing
SB compatible. But then it's also doing it for other things in win. You
could try
double clicking on your speaker icon in the system tray, bottom right near
the clock.
It may of pushed your master volume, and wav wolume to max. That would couse
that
for other apps that play sound also.
Hope this helps
Russy
"1470" <wifbwqsiswl@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> A friend of mine recently built a pc. Everything went smoothly. He put on
> Win2k, a load of software and then connected up his old HDD as a slave to
> fish off any documents ect. He had a folder with games in it. Real basic
> type games. The same sort of quality that come with windows.
> I said he could have problem playing them cos they werent installed.
> He dragged the folder of games onto the new HDD, and clicked on each of
the
> individual game files. Some played OK.
> When he clicked one off the files, all the sound in the pc turned into a
> high distortion and some of the video media files were just a distorted
> mess.
> All from one game?
> Installed Win2K again and this time no problem.
>
> Any ideas guys.
>
> Many thanks
> Darren
>
>
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| Thanks for the email Russ. I tried every setting under the sun. In the end i
had to reinstall the OS.
Cheers
Darren
"Russy" <russ.fliniss@lineone.net> wrote in message
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>
> I did have something like that happen to me, but with win 98 a while ago.
> I bought some old PC games, Pinball mania, and pinball dreams which I
> had when I had an Amiga. He may solve it if the games have a set up option
> for sound. As these old games has old sound card options. If I can
remember,
> I think I chose SoundBlaster Pro. That caused the problem. The volume was
so
> high,
> that it distorted it. There was no SB Awe 64 option. I solved it by
choosing
> SB compatible. But then it's also doing it for other things in win. You
> could try
> double clicking on your speaker icon in the system tray, bottom right near
> the clock.
> It may of pushed your master volume, and wav wolume to max. That would
couse
> that
> for other apps that play sound also.
> Hope this helps
>
>
> Russy
>
>
>
> "1470" <wifbwqsiswl@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:3dc0a427$0$8506$cc9e4d1f@
news.dial.pipex.com...
> > A friend of mine recently built a pc. Everything went smoothly. He put
on
> > Win2k, a load of software and then connected up his old HDD as a slave
to
> > fish off any documents ect. He had a folder with games in it. Real basic
> > type games. The same sort of quality that come with windows.
> > I said he could have problem playing them cos they werent installed.
> > He dragged the folder of games onto the new HDD, and clicked on each of
> the
> > individual game files. Some played OK.
> > When he clicked one off the files, all the sound in the pc turned into a
> > high distortion and some of the video media files were just a distorted
> > mess.
> > All from one game?
> > Installed Win2K again and this time no problem.
> >
> > Any ideas guys.
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Darren
> >
> >
>
>
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| Russ S 2002-10-31, 2:24 pm |
| Last time I came across that it was because the sound files in the games had
no association to the sound card. Seems to happen with XP and SoundBlaster
cards.
--
RussS
A+, Net+, MCP W2k
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| There was a mention that the new OS was Win2K, but no mention as to what OS
was used with the "old" HDD. Subsequently if it was a different OS, the
drivers for the new OS or sound cards may not be compatible. Rather than
simply copy and pasting the new games, they should have been cleanly
installed, so that the new ".dll's" or drivers would be compatible with the
game. In other words the old shared "dll's" etc.that were installed on the
old HDD won't be associated (in the new OS registry) with the upgraded
"dll's", the program my still function somewhat but not nearly as well as
with a clean install. Does that make any sense?
"Russ S" <noway@nohow.com> wrote in message
news:UAfw9.3174$8o1.525141@news.xtra.co.nz...
> Last time I came across that it was because the sound files in the games
had
> no association to the sound card. Seems to happen with XP and
SoundBlaster
> cards.
>
> --
> RussS
> A+, Net+, MCP W2k
>
>
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| Thanks Guys. I told the guy this, but he had no copy of any of the games. I
know they would be freeware stuff, but not where to find them. It was more
of an experiment, and when the first one worked, i tried them all, until the
fateful one naffed up the sound.
Cheers
Darren
"RJC" <rjcowherd@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:7Hlw9.42542$iV1.5283@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
> There was a mention that the new OS was Win2K, but no mention as to what
OS
> was used with the "old" HDD. Subsequently if it was a different OS, the
> drivers for the new OS or sound cards may not be compatible. Rather than
> simply copy and pasting the new games, they should have been cleanly
> installed, so that the new ".dll's" or drivers would be compatible with
the
> game. In other words the old shared "dll's" etc.that were installed on the
> old HDD won't be associated (in the new OS registry) with the upgraded
> "dll's", the program my still function somewhat but not nearly as well as
> with a clean install. Does that make any sense?
> "Russ S" <noway@nohow.com> wrote in message
> news:UAfw9.3174$8o1.525141@news.xtra.co.nz...
> > Last time I came across that it was because the sound files in the games
> had
> > no association to the sound card. Seems to happen with XP and
> SoundBlaster
> > cards.
> >
> > --
> > RussS
> > A+, Net+, MCP W2k
> >
> >
>
>
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| S.Lewis 2002-11-01, 6:23 am |
| Software / OS compatibility.
"1470" <wifbwqsiswl@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Thanks Guys. I told the guy this, but he had no copy of any of the games.
I
> know they would be freeware stuff, but not where to find them. It was more
> of an experiment, and when the first one worked, i tried them all, until
the
> fateful one naffed up the sound.
>
> Cheers
>
> Darren
>
> "RJC" <rjcowherd@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:7Hlw9.42542$iV1.5283@nwrddc02.gnilink.net...
> > There was a mention that the new OS was Win2K, but no mention as to what
> OS
> > was used with the "old" HDD. Subsequently if it was a different OS, the
> > drivers for the new OS or sound cards may not be compatible. Rather than
> > simply copy and pasting the new games, they should have been cleanly
> > installed, so that the new ".dll's" or drivers would be compatible with
> the
> > game. In other words the old shared "dll's" etc.that were installed on
the
> > old HDD won't be associated (in the new OS registry) with the upgraded
> > "dll's", the program my still function somewhat but not nearly as well
as
> > with a clean install. Does that make any sense?
> > "Russ S" <noway@nohow.com> wrote in message
> > news:UAfw9.3174$8o1.525141@news.xtra.co.nz...
> > > Last time I came across that it was because the sound files in the
games
> > had
> > > no association to the sound card. Seems to happen with XP and
> > SoundBlaster
> > > cards.
> > >
> > > --
> > > RussS
> > > A+, Net+, MCP W2k
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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