Warcraft_Orcs & Humans - Windows 2000 no sound

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Greetings,

I have a Toshiba Satellite Notebook 1800/1805 Series running Windows 2000 professional.

I have installed the original Warcraft: Orcs & Humans on this system. However, I have not been able to configure the game for sound.

The sound-card is integrated into the motherboard. The Device Manager identifies this as "ALI Audio Accelerator WDM Driver".

The IRQ is 11 and the DMA is 4.

Blizzard Support says DOS applications will only be able to recognize sound cards on IRQ 2 through 7.

I'm not sure how to proceed.

I beleive that the Warcraft 'Setup program' won't recognize my manual settings because the IRQ is at 11.

I don't want to make a configuration change that might screw up my system.

I've only been working with Win2000 for a few months and I'm still learning where everything is.

Any help would be appreciated.

Much thanks in advance.

-oop
 
I don't think you can do much. Warctaft 1 is a really old game... Windows 2000 is not really designed to run old DOS games that require direct access to hardware. I'm surprised it runs at all.

I think your best bet is to try and make a DOS bootdisk or install Windows 95 in a dual-boot configuration... although your sound card may not even be compatible with old standards that were used back then. And if your hard drive is formatted with NTFS file system then this won't really work.

Assigning IRQs manually is frowned upon these days unless there is an actual conflict. Windows 2000 uses the ACPI standard which basically restricts you from making such changes-- removing this standard would probably qualify as a "a configuration change that might screw up my system"

Information: http://www.the-group.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5812 (not recommended in this case :))
 
Originally posted by Rapmaster
I don't think you can do much. Warctaft 1 is a really old game... Windows 2000 is really designed to run old DOS games that require direct access to hardware. I'm surprised it runs at all.
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Hey Rapmaster,

Did you mean "Windows 2000 is not really designed"?

:D
 
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