Unfortunately this, like some of the other options I’ve found, say that you have to put the chip into “SoundBlaster” or “legacy” mode via the BIOS. Unfortunately my bios only offers “Auto” or “Disabled”. I’ll keep looking for a separate PCI soundcard with DOS drivers (although such a beast may not …

I'll try this tomorrow and if it works I will have your baby 😁

I got a new MOBO nearly a year ago and have just started wanting to fire up some of my older games. The most reliable fallback method on my previous PC was to create a good old DOS boot disk. I'm quite happy to do this again, but I need DOS sound drivers for the integrated sound chip (VIA AC97). …

That's great, thanks. Have other problems now but will persevere! Always have the boot floppy as a fall back!

WC3 also gives the "EMS driver is not VCPI compliant" in ver 0.63