Syndicate: HELP, program crashes.....

[Jeffrey Hagen]

I just got syndicate the other day and every time I try to run it the
*$%&#*# thing crashes. If I run it from windows it does so immediately
after trying to load it. If I run it from DOS it will run fine until I
after I modify my first team and try to start the first mission. Any
ideas of what I'm doing wrong?
System Info:
386 33MHz
DOS 6.0 (using doublespace)
SB16 sound card
Trident SVGA video card
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff
(ha...@gold.ucr.edu)

[Jennifer Schlickbernd]

Ha...@gold.ucr.edu (Jeffrey Hagen) writes:

>I just got syndicate the other day and every time I try to run it the
>*$%&#*# thing crashes. If I run it from windows it does so immediately
>after trying to load it. If I run it from DOS it will run fine until I
>after I modify my first team and try to start the first mission. Any
>ideas of what I'm doing wrong?
>System Info:
>386 33MHz
>DOS 6.0 (using doublespace)

Hi, if you look on the box, it says very specifically that no disk compression
is supported. This is almost certainly one of your problems.

>SB16 sound card
Make sure you change the interrupt in the SYND.BAT file from 7 to 5 (assuming
you did the default SB16 installation). This is probably the other source
of your problems.

>Trident SVGA video card
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>Jeff
>(ha...@gold.ucr.edu)

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[Michael Chen]

In article <2122gs$7...@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> jenn...@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Jennifer Schlickbernd) writes:

Ha...@gold.ucr.edu (Jeffrey Hagen) writes:

>I just got syndicate the other day and every time I try to run it the
>*$%&#*# thing crashes. If I run it from windows it does so immediately
>after trying to load it. If I run it from DOS it will run fine until I
>after I modify my first team and try to start the first mission. Any
>ideas of what I'm doing wrong?
>System Info:
>386 33MHz
>DOS 6.0 (using doublespace)
Hi, if you look on the box, it says very specifically that no disk compression
is supported. This is almost certainly one of your problems.

No, actually this seems to be a "we're not responsible" disclaimer. I have
managed to successfully install Syndicate on a drive compressed with Stacker
2.0. There were no modifications necessary. What took a bit of work was
getting Super PC-Kwik to free up enough memory, since I have only 4 MB RAM
and Syndicate needs nearly all of it. It runs OK with 2,816K or so of free
EMS RAM. If you don't have enough, weird things happen... for example, the
intro plays, then the main game reboots your computer.

>SB16 sound card
Make sure you change the interrupt in the SYND.BAT file from 7 to 5 (assuming
you did the default SB16 installation). This is probably the other source
of your problems.

This is most assuredly a problem. Change the /iirq and /idma options to
reflect however you have it set up.
FOR ULTRASOUND OWNERS: It seems to work with SBOS 2.0 as long as you
remove the /iio$220 option from the batch file. (It's not set wrong,
my base port is at 0x220.)

>Trident SVGA video card

That's what I've got, too. Doesn't seem to matter.

>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>Jeff
>(ha...@gold.ucr.edu)

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The important thing is that enough memory be present when Syndicate runs.
It doesn't seem to warn you if it can't find enough memory in certain
cases. From trial and error, you need at least 2,816K of available EMS
memory when it runs. For those of us with 4 MB RAM, it's a tight fit.

-- Mike

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[Jeffrey Hagen]

I didn't see the disk compression thing but had caught the IRQ setting.
Thanks for the info, this at least gives me something to try....
Jeff

[Jeffrey Hagen]

Thanks to all who posted answers to my problems. It ended up beign a
memory problem (not enough free). The game works now......
Agian many thanks
Jeff

[Papp Denis]

I'm pretty sure your problem is not enough EMS. When I first ran it
it froze at the 'loading Game' screen, but I only had 1M EMS. So I changed
that to 4 (you only really need about 3) and it works fine.

[Robear]

Thanks for the replies...I located the problem. My soundblaster's voice
chip went bad :-(. Time to get a new one...

David Pipes