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> Please, I am begging for help from all of you experts out there who > know their way around Need for Speed. I can not, for the life of me, get the > sound to work. If I run it from DOS prompt when I'm out of Windows, I can't > get any sound. But if I run it through a DOS shell and switch the sound > options in Options, I can squeeze out a little bit of sound. My card works > fine for everything else, including Nascar, which I CAN run from the prompt, > and I can get sound fine. Any patches or help in any way WHATSOEVER would be > Eric

I had a similar problem with NFS on my Compaq. My sound card is an Ess audiodrive and is soundblaster compatible but for some reason when I switch from Win95 to dos to play NFS I have to type this command line (note the following settings are for Soundblaster compatible card on default settings: c:\set blaster= a220 i5 d0 t4 After I would type that the game would recognize the existence of the card whereas before it didn't even locate it on the auto- setup. Anyhow hope this works for you, if not let me know I can try to come up with something else.