Stupid new technology!

[PJ_69]

Recently I have been in the mood to play one of my old pc games, called "The curse of monkey island" on my computer which currently uses windows xp. While playing the game, nothing goes wrong, except for when I get to a cutscene or a "mini-movie" then the game freezes, and closes. At first there was some graphics error message that popped up, but I changed the display settings to a more appropriate setting (800 x 600 pixels, and medium 16-bit) and other combos til the message didnt say that anymore. Now the message says Error 80070057 while locking the sound buffer!. I tried to go to the sound options, but I don't have a clue what to do to make the game run normally. For those of you that don't know, the game was orignally realeased for the windows 98, with no future plans, it is a pretty old game....
So if anyone can tell me what to do to get the game to stop crashing, please help!

Here are the specs and other info of the game that may help....

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-1- General Information

Minimum Requirements
Computer: 100% Windows 95 DirectX compatible computer required.

Graphics Card: PCI Graphics card required.

CPU: Pentium 90 or faster required.

Memory: 16MB RAM required.

CD-ROM: Quad speed CD-ROM drive required.

Sound Card: 100% Windows 95 compatible 16-bit sound card required.

Input Device: 100% Windows 95 compatible keyboard and mouse required.

DirectX: Microsoft DirectX 5 is included on this CD and must be installed to
play The Curse of Monkey Island.

Note: Your system may require the "latest" Windows 95 drivers for
your particular hardware.

Installation: Installation requires 2 MB free hard drive space. Additional space is
required for saved games.

Operating Systems Supported
To be able to run The Curse of Monkey Island, you must have Windows 95 as your operating system and your system must be 100% DirectX compatible. For more information on DirectX, see Section 4 of this Troubleshooting Guide. We have not fully tested The Curse of Monkey Island under Windows NT and we cannot guarantee compatibility. Operating Systems such as MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, IBM OS/2, and Windows NT are not supported.

MS-DOS Memory Managers
If you are running any memory managers, such as EMM386 or QEMM, you may experience problems when running The Curse of Monkey Island. Both The Curse of Monkey Island and Windows 95 are protected mode programs and may have problems running with memory managers loaded. We do not recommend making any changes to your system without first contacting your computer manufacturer about the configuration of your computer.

Running Other Programs
Generally, we have found that it is a good idea not to have any other programs running while playing The Curse of Monkey Island. Various video, sound, or memory problems may occur while other programs, including screen savers and virus-detection utilities, are running. Please turn off any active screen savers while playing The Curse of Monkey Island, as they may interrupt the game and cause problems.

Microsoft Office(tm)
If you are using Microsoft Office(tm) and are using their Toolbar, we recommend that you turn it off while playing The Curse of Monkey Island. When you restart your computer it will be turned on again. This also applies to any other programs that use a toolbar that stays on your desktop.

Power Management
If your computer is equipped with a Power Management Feature, you may want to disable it as the monitor may go to sleep while you are playing. Please consult your computer's documentation or the manufacturer for assistance in doing this.

Desktop Color Palette
We recommend that you set your desktop to 256 or High Color (16 bit) color. When playing The Curse of Monkey Island with your desktop set to a higher color palette, you may experience various problems in the game.

[Andy]

the first thing i would do is to right click the game, go to properties, compatability and set it to windows 95. If that doesnt work, then throw your computer out the window.

[Mazer]

Yeah, failing Andy's first suggestion, I would wonder if for some reason it would run alright on Linux under WINE... /me goes to acquire Monkey Island.

Didn't Lucasarts release two sequels?

[PJ_69]

Mazer wrote:

Yeah, failing Andy's first suggestion, I would wonder if for some reason it would run alright on Linux under WINE... /me goes to acquire Monkey Island.

Didn't Lucasarts release two sequels?

They might have...I played this game along time ago...Anyways, I did try to set the compatibility to both 95 then 98, with medium 16-bit colour, still screwd up..But methinks it is not the display, as the error stated it had something to do with sound...

[Mazer]

So maybe updating the sound card drivers?

And regarding the compatibility mode. Are you running XP home or pro? I don't know for sure if this is one of the differences but when I was running Home, compatibility mode didn't help at all.

[cool dude]

i'm pretty sure its not your computer and its the actual game. do other games work fine on your computer? if yes than its prolly this game thats damaged

[Blade]

umm, i remember there being a bios option for some newer mobo's that have onboard sound. there was some sort of soundblaster dos emulation or something like that that you can enable. if you're able to do this, it may fix the issue.

[codemage]

A lot of the old Lucasarts games don't play well with modern device drivers. I'd highly advise heading over to www.scummvm.org and picking up the free emulator there. It's specifically designed for legacy Lucasarts games.

It works really well - it's up for an open source award this year.

[Bobrobyn]

codemage wrote:

A lot of the old Lucasarts games don't play well with modern device drivers. I'd highly advise heading over to www.scummvm.org and picking up the free emulator there. It's specifically designed for legacy Lucasarts games.

It works really well - it's up for an open source award this year.

Awsome! I was thinking of going back and playing this game as well but didn't due to having an XP machine...I'll definatly try that emulator, sometime. Thanks!

~Bob