[Locutus of Borg]

So I just recently found Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of time.

I remembered that the game had four discs, so I burned them all into .iso and mounted them on four virtual drives. (So I don't have to keep swapping)

Now when I run the game I hear crackling audio. I think I had this problem before. I just finished playing the game's predecessor and the audio played perfectly. I saw somewhere that someone recommended turning off audio acceleration in DirectX, but I don't think you can in Vista

Does anyone have any advice?

[Kosh]

Moving this to the gaming forum would be a good start

[CP5670]

You might want to try running it in Virtual PC/XP mode. I don't think that game uses any 3D acceleration, so it should work fine that way.

I didn't realize this was an issue with Vista and 7 though. I know of two or three other games that require you to disable Direct3D acceleration to work properly, but it seems that you can no longer do this in dxdiag.

Is this series any good, by the way? I played the first Journeyman Project last summer through Windows 3.1 in Dosbox. The plot premise was very cool, but the story wasn't developed well at all and it ultimately didn't feel like much of a game.

[Nuclear1]

Journeyman 3 was one of the awesome games of my childhood...never played the original two though.  The 3rd is outstanding though.

[Locutus of Borg]

Journeyman 3 was one of the awesome games of my childhood...never played the original two though.  The 3rd is outstanding though.

 

ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT!!!!!!!!!

[Locutus of Borg]

You might want to try running it in Virtual PC/XP mode. I don't think that game uses any 3D acceleration, so it should work fine that way.

I didn't realize this was an issue with Vista and 7 though. I know of two or three other games that require you to disable Direct3D acceleration to work properly, but it seems that you can no longer do this in dxdiag.

How do I do this?

[Stormkeeper]

Shortcut, right-click properties, maybe?

He just needs to set the compatibility mode, right? Or is it more than that?

[CP5670]

How do I do this?

Download Virtual PC 2007 (free) and install Windows 98 or XP into it. I've played a few games through it in 98 that wouldn't work on XP. It has no 3D hardware support at all but works on many 2D games.

VMWare and VirtualBox may be better in some ways and are also worth trying, although the former costs money.

[Locutus of Borg]

If only I had a copy of WinXP lol

No, computability mode actually makes the audio worse.

[Davros]

have you tried increasing pci latency ?

ps: found this in system requirements
"Windows 95 required
(works with Windows98 with audio acceleration turned off)"

[Locutus of Borg]

dxdiag doesn't allow you to toggle audio acceleration in Vista