29th July 2004, 2:12 PM
Oh, actually I do have the SB16 drivers for my Audigy sound card. That's what I have in 98. I was thinking you meant something else... Anyway, I'll mess with some sound options later on.
So you got it working eh? Yeah, color cursors are a nice thing (if you like halloween orange :D, well yes they are pretty nice looking). The other end of that is small cursors. I like the high res, and therefor smaller, cursors for various reasons. It's a bit of a tradeoff, but eh... And yes, that toolbar up there really doesn't help the mood. I tune it out, but yeah it would be better off if it was gone.
So then, the sound is choppy eh? Is it the midi or the wave? Okay I checked something and yes, there is ONE last issue regarding KQ5. If you have a really fast optical drive, the sound playback (except midi) will indeed skip. That sucks... The only answer is to install a slower drive to prevent this skipping. I actually have only a small handful of games that are "overread". I think it's just how the data is put on the disk using some outdated procedure. I think there are others, but the only other game I can think of right now with the same error is my original Starcraft CD (not brood wars). I have to try a few times, listening to my drive starting up and running down over and over again, to get it to install, and the audio playing the campaign skips. Brood Wars works fine though. Honestly, I think that current drives just aren't designed with really low speeds like 4x, 2x, and 1x, capabilites, or these games just aren't designed to tell the drives to lower to that speed, or something. Not all my old games do that though, only a few, suggesting it was only somewhat popular before the updated recording methods replaced it outright or whatever. I dunno, I'll just experiment with one of my really old drives I have somewhere around here to be sure.
So you got it working eh? Yeah, color cursors are a nice thing (if you like halloween orange :D, well yes they are pretty nice looking). The other end of that is small cursors. I like the high res, and therefor smaller, cursors for various reasons. It's a bit of a tradeoff, but eh... And yes, that toolbar up there really doesn't help the mood. I tune it out, but yeah it would be better off if it was gone.
So then, the sound is choppy eh? Is it the midi or the wave? Okay I checked something and yes, there is ONE last issue regarding KQ5. If you have a really fast optical drive, the sound playback (except midi) will indeed skip. That sucks... The only answer is to install a slower drive to prevent this skipping. I actually have only a small handful of games that are "overread". I think it's just how the data is put on the disk using some outdated procedure. I think there are others, but the only other game I can think of right now with the same error is my original Starcraft CD (not brood wars). I have to try a few times, listening to my drive starting up and running down over and over again, to get it to install, and the audio playing the campaign skips. Brood Wars works fine though. Honestly, I think that current drives just aren't designed with really low speeds like 4x, 2x, and 1x, capabilites, or these games just aren't designed to tell the drives to lower to that speed, or something. Not all my old games do that though, only a few, suggesting it was only somewhat popular before the updated recording methods replaced it outright or whatever. I dunno, I'll just experiment with one of my really old drives I have somewhere around here to be sure.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)