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From: EZBZYAZ@MVS.OAC.UCLA.EDU (Christopher Hayashida)
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Subject: Re: The 7th Guest "clicking" noise
Date: Thu, 05 May 1994 18:57
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In article <ROBINSONJW%DFM.18@pcmail.usafa.af.mil>,
ROBINSONJW%DFM@pcmail.usafa.af.mil (JOHN W. ROBINSON) writes:

>In article <1994May3.143210.14737@ccc.amdahl.com> gpl00@eng.amdahl.com (G. Peter Liu) writes:
>
>>I hear a clicking noise during the video sequences of the 7th Guest
>>CD-ROM game.
>
>>I have a 486DX2-66 (VESA) with an Adaptec 1542C SCSI adapter (no
>>IDE at all in this system,) a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 sound card
>>(I'm using the sound card's SCSI for the CD-ROM,) and a Texel
>>CD-ROM drive.
>
>>I've downloaded the latest drivers for all the cards, and sent
>>e-mail to Media Vision about the problem.  They quote the manual
>>and tell me to set the switches "/N5 /F11" on my Adaptec (ASPI4DOS)
>>driver.  This has no effect, and they apparently have no other
>>ideas. 
>
>>This only seems to happen with T7G.  I also have RTZ, Rebel Assault,
>>Critical Path and some others -- they all run great.
>
>>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Peter
>
>
>>==================================================================
>
>>G. Peter Liu
>>E-Mail: Peter.Liu@eng.amdahl.com
>
>>Disclaimer:  All ideas, editorials and opinions are mine and mine
>>             alone.  Any resemblance they may have to those of the
>>             Amdahl Corporation is PURELY coincidental.
>
>
>I haven't had any problem with the clicking sound but I do have trouble with
>hearing the dialog.  The music is often too loud and it tends to drown out
>the other sounds.  Is there a way to lower the sound on the music??  Thanks.
>
There's a FAQ on the Seventh Guest (technical) at cdrom.com.  Anyway,
You might want to try increasing the DMA buffer size...  You can do so
by specifying D=256 (or DMA=256) after EMM386/QEMM386 in your CONFIG.SYS

Christopher Hayashida