Sound problem in Fallout 1

[Sharpe]

I decided to try to install Fallout 1 from the Fallout collection I bought a few years ago - I have another copy of Fallout 1 which is likely DOS based - I bought that one over 10 years ago. I installed it on Windows XP and used the Win 95 compatability and it seems to work fine so far - except no sound. Fallout 2 installed with no problems so far.

When I go to the "sound" program - only one setting seems to provide any sound - Soundblaster 1 and only one particular port, IRQ, and DMA setting. But the sound is only static, and when I try to run the game it basically stalls - I get some sound but it is choppy and stalls the program (without sound it doesn't stall at all).

I have a Santa Cruz Turtle Beach sound card (yeah I know its old, but then again so is my computer ).

I tried dosbox but haven't figured out how to work it yet.

Any advice on how to get sound without stalling the game?

[Standup]

Have you tried something like VDMSound? According to the blurb

"If you are running Windows NT/2000/XP and would like to have sound in your DOS applications, VDMSound is a Soundblaster emulator which will allow you to do just that! "

Never really spent enough time with Dosbox to know whether you need other emulators to make things work. I remember ages ago looking for an SB16 emulator program to get sound in some of my old games

[El_Cid]

Xp really started to spoil the party, Vista killed it off.

but yeah the best way to play older games is to have an old PC dedicated to doing that. I'm crazy and i have two older PC's to make sure nothing slips between the hardware gaps.

1x P166 with a normal 2mb SVGA graphics card running mostly DOS based games

1x P2 566 with 64Mb Geforce running mostly older pre-windows XP games

Then my current gen rig for XP compatible games.

Another option is to use one of the direct download services that give XP/Vista compatible versions of these older games.

[Unimatrix11]

DosBox thus far worked fine for my old DOS-games (Aces of the Deep, Wizardry VII, StarFlight II, Wasteland, JJ-Final Frontier: Elite), except after switching tasks (say to look at the Wasteland-paragraph file) it goes to windows-mode (tiny 320x200 on a 22") and i cant get it back to full-screen without restarting the Box.

I use the ´Advanced game loader´ with it. I dunno, setting it up was a long time ago (and i have never needed an update), but i dont remember any particular difficulties. I´d recommend you explore further in that direction (or setup an extra rig, as El Cid suggests).

EDIT: If your mainboard has a sound-on-board feature, you could also try to disable your soundcard before running FallOut.