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I'm pretty disappointed with GOG at the moment, in selling me products that don't work without tinkering and headaches. Couldn't all the config file tinkering have been done by them? Shouldn't that be part of the product they are selling me? What am I paying for again?

Anyway, I can't get Privateer working right. With the shipped config, it just crashed right after startup. I looked online and tried some other configs people listed. One of them allowed it to run without any crashing (so far) but there is no music, and the sound clips only play for a fraction of a second and stop. I tried tinkering with the configs further, such as changing to basic sound blaster with IRQ7, then IRQ5, and it was no help. I tried changing from overlay to DDraw and that didn't seem to help (that helped for Ultima 4 so I figured I'd try it.)

If anyone has a working privateer config file, can you paste it? What about the install.exe, do I need to run this and when? Is there some reason one dosbox config file couldn't be universal for us all, other than perhaps CPU speed tweaking?
Post edited July 19, 2014 by TurboC2
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TurboC2: I'm pretty disappointed with GOG at the moment, in selling me products that don't work without tinkering and headaches. Couldn't all the config file tinkering have been done by them? Shouldn't that be part of the product they are selling me? What am I paying for again?

Anyway, I can't get Privateer working right. With the shipped config, it just crashed right after startup. I looked online and tried some other configs people listed. One of them allowed it to run without any crashing (so far) but there is no music, and the sound clips only play for a fraction of a second and stop. I tried tinkering with the configs further, such as changing to basic sound blaster with IRQ7, then IRQ5, and it was no help. I tried changing from overlay to DDraw and that didn't seem to help (that helped for Ultima 4 so I figured I'd try it.)

If anyone has a working privateer config file, can you paste it? What about the install.exe, do I need to run this and when? Is there some reason one dosbox config file couldn't be universal for us all, other than perhaps CPU speed tweaking?
Could you tell us about your OS, your hardware specs, etc.? Also, there should be two files, stderr.txt and stdout.txt IIRC, located in your Privateer's DOSBox sub-folder. See if these files contain any error messages and post them as well.
OS is Win XP, Athlon 64 dual core X2 4400+, 2G ram, asus a8n-sli premium mobo, onboard sound, radeon hd 6670 video.

But actually I seem to have gotten it working - I restored the gog-supplied config file and then switched from overlay to DDraw (that looks to have been the source of the original crashing problem just like with Ultima series.) The sound is now working, presumably since I had run install.exe and set it to soundblaster on irq5? I'm not really sure. Only problem now is that it's running slow, but I'll try tweaking the cycles. Thanks anyway!
Alright, glad it's working now. :)