Ecoquest 2: Lost Secret of The Rainforest Help

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Ecoquest 2: Lost Secret of The Rainforest Updates/Patches (none)

Ecoquest 2: Lost Secret of The Rainforest's original requirements:

MS-DOS 3.3 or Windows 3.1 or greater
286 or better
2 MB RAM, 4 MB for Windows
7.5 MB Hard drive space
VGA
AdLib, Disney Sound Source, General MIDI, Microsoft Sound System, Pro Audio Spectrum / Plus / 16, Roland MT-32/LAPC-1, Roland RAP-10, Sound Blaster, Thunderboard
Mouse

Audio Problems
- Poor quality or no soun d
- Unable to initialize your audio hardware
- Windows XP Help
- New Ecoquest 2: Lost Secret of The Rainforest DOSBox Installer

Extras
- Ecoquest 2: Lost Secret of The Rainforest UHS File (ZIP file) [14.5 KB]
- Ecoquest 2: Lost Secret of The Rainforest Walkthrough
- Ecoquest 2: Lost Secret of The Rainforest Demo (ZIP file) [689 KB]
- SHP Sierra Games Forums
- Find it on eBay
- Google

Audio Problems

Audio problems are common in the later Sierra DOS SCI games. There's no single fix for all these games.

Problem - Poor Quality / No Sound (Win9x and XP):
The game has no sound or the music is of poor quality.

Solution 1 (preferred):
Play the game in DOSBox. It also will work with the MT-32 sound module, if you are fortunate to have one.

Solution 2:
Use VDMSound. The game work well with VDMSound. The sound will be as good as your audio hardware, and as with DOSBox, it works with the MT-32 sound module.

Solution 3:
Play the game with FreeSCI, a third party Interpreter for Sierra's early SCI games.

Solution 4 (DOS/Win9x):
Install DOS drivers for your soundcard. Without DOS drivers installed you won't have sound in a DOS window in Windows 9x. If you can't find DOS drivers for your soundcard, there is an alpha (developmental) version of VDMS that you can try.

Problem - Unable to initialize your audio hardware:
On starting the game you get the message:

Unable to initialize your audio hardware

Solution 1 (preferred):
Play the game in DOSBox. By playing your game in DOSBox, you can avoid this and other timer problems. Even the Windows version can be played in DOSBox if you install Windows 3x in it, first.

Back when computers came with a "Turbo" switch (a sort of speed switch,) Sierra's workaround was to turn off the Turbo switch to start the game, after which you could turn the Turbo back on. If you have your cycles in DOSBox set too high, you may still encounter this problem. You can mimic the turbo switch solution by lowering your cycles (Ctl+F11) before starting your game. You may raise the cycles back up after the game starts (Ctl+F12).

Solution 2:
Patch the old audio driver with GOSiERRA or SBSIERRA.

Solution 3:
Use an updated audio driver.

Solution 4:
Try installing the Windows version.

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