DOCUMENT:Q126879 11-DEC-1999 [homemm] TITLE :Baseball 1995: BS95READ.TXT (Part 3 of 3) PRODUCT :Microsoft Home Multimedia Titles PROD/VER:WINDOWS: OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS: ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft Complete Baseball Guide for Windows, 1995 edition ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY ======= The following is part 3 of the BS95READ.TXT included with Microsoft Complete Baseball for Windows, 1995 edition. SOUND DOESN'T PLAY AT ALL ------------------------- If you don't hear anything when you play sounds in Complete Baseball, be sure that: * A sound card is installed. * A speaker is connected to the jack on your sound card (not to the CD-ROM drive). * The volume is set to an audible level. * You have Sounds turned on in the Complete Baseball Sounds dialog box. This can be accessed from the Options menu. You can test sounds with the Sound option in the Windows Control Panel. If you hear no sound during the tests, open the Drivers option to check the installed sound driver files. These drivers must be compatible with your sound board. Be sure that a driver for WAVE audio and the entry "[MCI] Sound" appears in the Drivers dialog box. If "[MCI] Sound" is missing, click the Add button in the Drivers dialog box. Then, select "[MCI] Sound" in the list of drivers and click OK. The Drivers application will ask you to insert one of your Windows installation disks that contains the driver, so be sure to have these disks on hand. If necessary, try setting up your sound board again. If you still can't hear sounds, contact the sound board manufacturer to verify that you are using the correct drivers and that no hardware conflicts exist. Please note that Complete Baseball requires a sound board to be installed and is not intended to run with drivers which use the PC internal speaker, such as the unsupported "PC Speaker" driver. Such a driver will in most cases not play any sounds, and if the driver setup option "Enable Interrupts" is not checked, the system may crash. Check the "Drivers" configuration in your Windows control panel. If you have both a sound board and the PC Speaker driver installed, it is preferable to un-install the PC Speaker driver. Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 and 16ASP Sound Cards ---------------------------------------------------- Compressed audio clips may fail to play if you are using a Sound Blaster 16 or Sound Blaster 16 ASP sound card. This problem occurs because some computers are unable to use the 16-bit DMA (direct memory access) channel on the Sound Blaster cards. To correct this problem, switch the HDMA channel to use DMA or 8-bit DMA. You must change this setting in the following two places: - The Drivers dialog box in the Windows Control Panel -and- - The SBCONFIG.EXE configuration program included with the Sound Blaster cards To change the settings, follow these steps: 1. Choose the Drivers icon in the Windows Control Panel. 2. Select the Sound Blaster 16 Wave/Midi driver and choose Setup. 3. Under the HDMA setting, set the selection to DMA. 4. Choose OK, and then choose Do Not Restart Now. 5. Exit Windows. 6. At the MS-DOS prompt, switch to the SB16 directory and run SBCONFIG.EXE. 7. Follow the instructions provided by this configuration program. It assists you in selecting and testing the following variables: Variable Select ------------------------------ Base I/O port Autoscan MidiPort address Autoscan DMA interrupt Current 8-bit DMA Current 16-bit DMA Use 8-bit DMA After you have finished making these selections, the SBCONFIG program will restart your computer. 8. Restart Windows. All compressed audio should now play correctly. For more information regarding Sound Blaster cards and about this problem, contact Creative Labs technical support at (405) 742-6622. Sound Blaster is manufactured by Creative Technology Ltd., a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability. ---------------------- SOUND PLAYS, BUT SKIPS ---------------------- If audio breaks up or skips periodically it is usually an indication that your CD-ROM drive does not have a fast enough Data Transfer Rate. Complete Baseball requires that your CD be capable of transferring data at a rate of 150 KB per second while utilizing 40 percent or less of the CPU. You can continue to use your CD-ROM drive to run Complete Baseball, but you will continue to experience this choppiness in audio and animation clips. ------------------------------- PROBLEMS USING SOUNDBLASTER PRO ------------------------------- On rare occasions the Sound Blaster audio driver WSSSBPRO.DRV may have problems playing very short sound files, causing Baseball to crash. If you encounter this problem, turn off button sounds in Baseball: 1. Click the Options button. 2. In the Options dialog box, click the Sound/Animation button. 3. In the resulting dialog box, click the Button Sounds radio button to turn off button sounds. For more information on Sound Blaster, contact Creative Labs technical support at (405) 742-6622. --------------------------------------- PROBLEMS USING MEDIA VISION PROAUDIO 16 --------------------------------------- On rare occasions the ProAudio 16 audio driver may have problems playing very short sound files, causing Baseball to crash. If you encounter this problem, try the following fix: 1. Edit your config.sys file located in your root directory (usually c:\config.sys). 2. If you have a STACKS= line change it to STACKS=12,512. If you have no STACKS= line then add the line at the end of the file. 3. Save the file and re-start your system. For more information call Media Vision, Inc. Technical Support at (800) 638-2807 or (510) 770-9905. On CompuServe, Media Vision can be reached by typing GO MEDIAVISION at any prompt. ================================================================= 6. RUNNING UNDER MICROSOFT WINDOWS NT ================================================================= The Windows NT 3.1 version of the Indeo video decompressor from Intel was not officially released and tested before Windows NT 3.1 was finished. Although Complete Baseball will run under Windows NT 3.1, its videos will not play unless you have installed the decompressor. 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