AGS deletes drivers!!

[Sam.]

It's not just winamp. If you have ANY prgram that is using your audio drivers, Windows media, itunes, or even something like audacity (i think) AGS will not produce audio files.

[Pumaman]

What makes AGS so greedy with the audio system anyway? You can play most games with winamp or whatever running in the background, but AGS blocks out anything else.

This should only happen on Windows 98, since it only allows one application at a time to access the sound card.

With Windows 2000/XP, you shouldn't get this problem. I can certainly have winamp/media player running whilst playing AGS games and it's fine.

[Babar]

Unrelated, but using media player, then running a game, then closing it, causes the sound in the Media Player to go away.

[scotch]

Windows 2000 and XP haven't made a difference for me, any AGS game that uses digital audio and is set to directsound output freezes all other sound.  Waveout seems to work (although it's crackly).  Perhaps it's just my soundcard.