Quoted From: Jim Archer
         To: All
       Date: Wednesday, 27 November 1996
Hello Jim,
Wednesday, 27 November 1996 20:37:00, Jim Archer wrote to All
          Subject: Quake Sound
 JA> I'm running Warp 4, and trying to get the sound to work with
 JA> Quake. I don't know if it works or not, since Doom sound didn't. I
 JA> have a PAS16 Basic, and I have multimedia installed for the PAS
 JA> half. I have tried setting the BLASTER environment varibal, but no
 JA> luck. When Quake starts, it displays an error message about not
 JA> being able to initialize something, but it scrolls off way too fast
 JA> to read.
Well I dont use Warp 4.0, just good 'ol Warp 3.0, and when I installed
quake from CD rom, it installed perfectly apart from 1 thing:-) You
guessed it, no sound, this was because I didnt set the blaster variable
in [OS/2] autoexec.bat.. However I run a system where I can boot to 'either;
Dos or Os/2, and while I did have the blaster settings in my Dos Autoexec.bat
they weren't in the Os/2 one..
I also pathed Quake fully in Os/2 Autoexec.bat when I put the blaster
settings in, and Quake works fine using the defaults from install. Ok
on my rig its 'sloow' as treacle, but thats because I have slow HDD's
and only 8meg of memory, so most of Quakes memory is virtual..
But I do get sound now, only error is on startup Quake reports it cannot
'exec' autoexec.cfg...
However it does expect to be able to 'exec' config.cfg & default.cfg and
quake.rc... So perhaps its a pathing problem??
 JA> Anyhow, is Quake sound susposed to work and, if so, is there
 JA> a trick?
Well I know it does work:-) at least under Warp 3.0 so its probably a
minor setting problem of some sort. Is there any way you can slow your
system down enuff to actually see what the error message is?
                 Cheers,
                         Cliff
 Written offline at 06:13 Hrs
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