No Sound Playing Freddy Pharkas in MS-DOS Session

ID: Q132581

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you are playing the game Freddy Pharkas in an MS-DOS session in Windows 95 on a computer with Microsoft Windows Sound System-compatible hardware, the game may not produce any digital audio.

CAUSE

The game tries to reconfigure the audio hardware to use IRQ 7 and DMA 1. To maintain system stability, the device driver prevents this reconfiguration.

RESOLUTION

To play digital audio, use either of the following methods:

Reconfigure the Windows Sound System-compatible device to use IRQ 7 and DMA 1.

Create a shortcut to the game that specifies MS-DOS mode.

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