Sound?

[Tavenier]

I am running Col on my PC smoothly, except for the sounds. I don't hear music, sound effect or whatever.
Can someone help me out by telling me what I can do about it?
Thanks in advance!

 

[Colonel]

If you are running anything 98 or before go to the setup.exe in the Col file and set up sound. However anything post 98 and sound doesnt work. It is a bug in how the software works. The sound files are incompatable in a Millieum, NT, or XP format. Short of refiting the sound files it is not possible to fix.

 

[Tavenier]

That is too bad. So I'll just have to keep playing it without sound...
Thanks for the reply!

PS I am running XP pro...

 

[Drakan]

You can play the windows version (not DOS) with sound in your XP

 

[Arne]

You can run DOS version in DOSbox with sounds.

But on my PC (XP) there is also something strange when playing Colonize in DOSbox: Some (only some, not all) of the sounds are still missed. I remember, when a wagontrain run into a town, there was a sound for that. Thisone don't work. The only thing I can get working here is a rustle, when using one of the available soundcard settings. Also there was a sound if a building is finished. Thisone is also missing. Most(?) other sounds work. Muskets and Guns are firing, Ships also have some sounds and so on.

Any Idea, what to do?

 

[Tavenier]

You can run DOS version in DOSbox with sounds.

How?

 

[Arne]

Not sure. On my system it worked (exept these "missing" sounds) after running that INSTALL.EXE again for reconfigure sound settings.

 

[rock9000]

How I got sounds (and effects) in XP Pro SP2:
1. Download and install VDMSound (http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound/)
*If you right click on colonize.bat and select "Run with VDMS" now, you may encounter problems, as I did.
2. Start->Run type" "sysedit" (without quotes)
3. Add this line to your autoexec.bat: "set rtvmexp=0" (without quotes)
4. Reboot
5. Right click colonize.bat and select "Run with VDMS"