audio doesn't work

[Towelie]

can't get audio working at all, running win7 x64, anyone have any ideas?

[monkeymadness]

Can you give me some more information. Is this all the keen games or just 4 and 5? And you are getting absolutely no sound?

[Towelie]

Originally posted by stevenloveland:

Can you give me some more information. Is this all the keen games or just 4 and 5? And you are getting absolutely no sound?

All the keen games, including 4 and 5. No sound whatsoever

[monkeymadness]

Alright, I think that this should work.

Go into your Program Files on your OS and then choose the folders Steam>steamapps>common>commanderkeen>base1. From here look for a file called keen1.conf. Click on it and open the file with a text editor. I recommend notepad. If your nervous about messing something up save a copy of the original. Scroll down the list and make sure that each of these values appear this way.

[mixer]

nosound=false

[sblaster]

mixer=true

[gus]

gus=true

[speaker]

pcspeaker=true
tandy=auto
disney=true

I'm hoping that one of these is set wrong. If you change them then you should be able to hear sound. Once changed, save the text file (don't worry about save as). Check to see if it worked. If it did, you will need to change the conf files for each of the keen games in order to get sound for them. Base1 is for the first game, so do the exact same thing in base2, 3, 4, and 5 as you did for base1.

Good Luck! And please let me know if it worked.

[Towelie]

Damn, unfortunately all those values are set correctly. I have no idea what the problem could be... might have to bust out an old laptop running xp to play this.

[Towelie]

So i'm pretty sure everything was fine in the first place and i'm just an idiot, there's no sound until you actually start a new game.

[I Am Become Death]

Thanks for posting that, I had the same problem :D. It was in fact fine, I jsut expected sound in the menu's as well, lol.

[V 4 Vendetta]

I have found a issue with the music lagging on Keen 4 is this a know issue

[monkeymadness]

Originally posted by V 4 Vendetta:

I have found a issue with the music lagging on Keen 4 is this a know issue

Is it just the music or does the game also seem to have lag?

[V 4 Vendetta]

the game has lag to

[monkeymadness]

The best way to fix this is to edit your settings for the game. As I have mentioned before:

Go into your Program Files on your OS and then choose the folders Steam>steamapps>common>commanderkeen>base1. From here look for a file called keen1.conf. Click on it and open the file with a text editor. I recommend notepad. If your nervous about messing something up save a copy of the original.

I'm not sure what computer you are running, but there are a couple of ways to make the game run more smoothly. If I remember right Steam automatically sets the output=surface, change it to overlay, ddraw, or opengl. If that doesn't work, then while in game increase the frameskip (Ctrl-F12). Mine is auto set to 3000. If you find a number that runs the game well at, then set cycles=fixed ####. One last thing you could try is to change the memsize from 16 to memsize=64.

The idea is to get dosbox to allow dosbox to use more computer power. If you have an old computer, than doing this will choke the computer. If you have a modern system it shouldn't be a problem and you probably will only need to change one thing. I assume that this will clear up the music problem. Let me know if that helps or if you have any other questions.

[V 4 Vendetta]

I will give it a try