Hello all, I figured I'd share a fix I found after spending a couple days trying to get sound working in Windows 98 for my Yamaha YMF724F-V. Symptom: Immediately after install of the Yamaha DS-XG v4.07.1040 driver for Windows 98, my PC would freeze. On reboot, it would freeze a few seconds after the …

Yes. The correct sequence is to run SETUPDS first, followed by DSDMA, otherwise a hang. Sorry I forgot to mention that. It's been a while 🙂 IIRC DSDMA is very touchy so you might also have to load it before certain other devices too and after some others. If you get trouble, I'd start with an …

Eek.. never seen that behavior. For me it just loads in AUTOEXEC.BAT without trouble. Do you have DOS4GW.EXE next to it? Try to make sure you have the latest version there. I do have DOS4GW.EXE next to it. I realized that trying to execute DOS4GW.EXE complained about "not enough memory" (which I …

You need to run DSDMA.EXE to compensate for lack of SBLink and DDMA. It requires EMM386 to be loaded first. After it loads successfully, digital sound should work with almost all games (only a handful of games aren't compatible with DSDMA). Thanks for the reply! I gave it a try, and running dsdma. …

Hello! I have a Yamaha YMF724F-V (PCI) sound card and an Asus A8R-MVP (M1575 Southbridge) motherboard and am trying to get digital sound working in MS-DOS, booting directly into it. I installed the DS-XG driver, setupds /s is in autoexec.bat. In setupds, this is what I see (- is greyed out): LEGACY …

Hello! I have a Windows 98 build with a Radeon X600 XT in it and the Catalyst v6.2 driver from PhilsComputerLab. I seem to be having trouble getting a second monitor working though. If I connect a second monitor, the second monitor will display a mirror image. If I then go into display settings and …