Divarin
Veteran Member
Hi all. This weekend I picked up cheap at a flea market a copy of 7th guest. I have never played this game but it was cheap, complete in box, and came with a rather thick book (strategy guide) so I figured why not.
I want to try playing it on my 486 dx/33.
This computer has a sound blaster 16 (ISA) and is currently configured to IRQ 7.
I do have the BLASTER environment set but more often than not games seem to ignore this setting and will fail to run correctly unless I go into that game's setup utility and explicitly tell it to use IRQ 7 instead of 5.
I don't remember why I set it to 7, maybe I was having conflicts at one point while setting this computer up.
So this game, at first seemed to run but had no sound. I went back into the installer and set it to Sound Blaster (or compatible), there's about 3 different sound blaster options (I don't recall exactly what each one is labeled as)
With the other two "sound blaster" options selected what happens when I try to launch the game is it just reboots the computer.
The install program has no option to set IRQ so I suspect it's just defaulting to 5 and that's where the trouble comes from.
Does anyone have any experience setting up this game? Can you recommend a way I can force it to use IRQ 7? Should I just try to get my sound card going on IRQ 5 and go and reconfigure all of my other games?
I want to try playing it on my 486 dx/33.
This computer has a sound blaster 16 (ISA) and is currently configured to IRQ 7.
I do have the BLASTER environment set but more often than not games seem to ignore this setting and will fail to run correctly unless I go into that game's setup utility and explicitly tell it to use IRQ 7 instead of 5.
I don't remember why I set it to 7, maybe I was having conflicts at one point while setting this computer up.
So this game, at first seemed to run but had no sound. I went back into the installer and set it to Sound Blaster (or compatible), there's about 3 different sound blaster options (I don't recall exactly what each one is labeled as)
With the other two "sound blaster" options selected what happens when I try to launch the game is it just reboots the computer.
The install program has no option to set IRQ so I suspect it's just defaulting to 5 and that's where the trouble comes from.
Does anyone have any experience setting up this game? Can you recommend a way I can force it to use IRQ 7? Should I just try to get my sound card going on IRQ 5 and go and reconfigure all of my other games?