Unofficial Tex Murphy

After a number of years, I've finally been bitten by the TPD bug again. I'm running Windows XP and got the game and VDMsound installed per the files on Nilo's site. Great work btw! The game appears to be completely playable.

The issue I have is relatively minor. The soundtrack for the movies and Tex's voiceovers contains a very noticeable static hissing sound. My guess is that either the game doesn't like my onboard audio codec (Realtek AC'97) or the wrong soundcard settings are in the config.ini file. I'm leaning toward the latter. Unfortuately the game locks if I attempt to "Select the audio devices" from the control panel.

Ultimately the hiss is liveable, just extremely distracting, so I'm hoping someone here can help. Ugh, I'm so close I can feel it!

Long live Tex!

tathorp wrote:After a number of years, I've finally been bitten by the TPD bug again. I'm running Windows XP and got the game and VDMsound installed per the files on Nilo's site. Great work btw! The game appears to be completely playable.

The issue I have is relatively minor. The soundtrack for the movies and Tex's voiceovers contains a very noticeable static hissing sound. My guess is that either the game doesn't like my onboard audio codec (Realtek AC'97) or the wrong soundcard settings are in the config.ini file. I'm leaning toward the latter. Unfortuately the game locks if I attempt to "Select the audio devices" from the control panel.

Ultimately the hiss is liveable, just extremely distracting, so I'm hoping someone here can help. Ugh, I'm so close I can feel it!

Long live Tex!

Send me an email with a copy of your config settings - I may be able to help! [email protected]

Had to rebuild my machine. I'm back to a fresh copy of xp sp2. I installed PD, applied the tex4 patch from your site, VDMsound and the launchpad, but pd will not start.

I ran the commands from your website and get to the "Set Sound Device" screen. I click OK and the screen goes black and the dos windows hangs. If I Alt-Tab out for a while and come back, this is what I see:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Todd>cd \pandora

C:\pandora>dosdrv -i:c:\pandora\vdms.ini
VDMSound DOS loader, version 2.01 (Aug 04 2001)
Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Vlad ROMASCANU.

VDMSound is covered by the GNU Public License (GPL), version 2 or later, as
published by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. (http://www.fsf.org/).

Loading 'VDDLoader.dll'...
Successfully loaded & initialized (hVDD = 0x01).

C:\pandora>pandora
DOS/4GW Professional Protected Mode Run-time Version 1.97
Copyright (c) Rational Systems, Inc. 1990-1994
C:\pandora>


Any help would be wonderful!

OK - I'll be sending the files in a few hours.

Nilo

Nilo, you are just the "shiznit"! i put the files on and I'm rocking and rolling! Haven't seen tex like this in damn near a decade! The sound on the voice overs has a bit of static to it, but nothing too serious, everything else works great!

Thank you man, I really appreciate it!

Btw, do you have similar files for UAKM?