SUCCESSFUL GUS INIT FILE CONFIGURATION FOR ID/3DREALMS GAMES ============================================================

...Here (6k) are the files I used to finally get the GUS to work with all 4 ID games: Ultimate Doom, Doom II, Heretic, and Hexen. This setup, amazingly, will also work with Duke3d!

Some notes:

1. You *must* run IWINIT every time you run Heretic or Hexen after running Ultimate doom and/or Doom II, no matter what the Heretic/Hexen sound configuration currently is. If you don't, the sound card won't work correctly.

2. Setting the SFX option to 16-bit Gravis Ultrasound gives you "locationatory" sound; i.e. if a monster growls from your left, you will hear it in the left speaker. With normal 8-bit Soundblaster sound, you get the SFX but no locationary sound. I have not yet been able to get both music *and* locationary sound together from the GUS (I think you have to have a 32-bit sound card for that). If you set SFX to GU and music to General MIDI, GU will override and you will only get locationary sound. To hear the music, you *must* set the SFX to plain Soundblaster. However, I have setup 2 Heretic/Hexen/Duke3D configuration files so that you can switch back and forth, at will (for Duke3D, see note 3 below).

3. I have set the MPU401 IRQ to be the same as the Ultrasound IRQ in IWDOOM.INI, because Duke3d works with it that way, and it doesn't seem to affect sound in the ID games. Note, however, that if you switch SFX to Ultrasound in Duke3D setup, you *must* disable General MIDI, or the card will hang (unlike the ID games, where you can leave it at GM and it won't affect anything).

4. If you run a game and the music's playing out of only one speaker, quit, re-initialize the GUS, and try again.

5. The DOS paths indicated in my init files are for my system only; you will have to edit these paths so that they point in the right direction for your system.

6. Everything that I have described here is for DOS *only*. Now that the 2.0 GUS drivers are out, I'm trying to figure out where the VIWD.VXD entries in the Registry are so I can run the GUS drivers in protected mode. If anybody knows where they are, please let me know at deckerd@sd.cts.com. :) Disclaimer: these notes might not be exactly right (email me if you see blatant errors ;) ), and/or they might not work on your system - I just know that they work on mine. :D

Last Updated: 12-01-96 | mail comments, suggestions, etc to: deckerd@sd.cts.com