Today I turned on the PC and it was completely mute, games are all mute, I checked mixerset and I found all the gains at x8, everything maxed out. How can I completely remove the drivers, from everywhere and start fresh with them ? I already downloaded a new SB16 drivers pack from Vogons.

No no, I triple checked the mixerset and it's due to the volume, when master is maxed it does that, but when I lower it, some games max it out again automagically.

Yeah, I tried both in the Microphone In and the Line In, but in both jacks the audio boosts like that, plus the FM music is just fine, it's only the sound effects that always get muffled like that. Tested with Duke Nukem 2, which doesn't maximize the mixer on his own, the clipping indeed goes away …

What's all that witchery ? 😕

SB16SET ? Where can I find that ?

I've noticed that even though I lower the Master volume in mixerset and save, after I play and return to the mixerset, the master volume is all the way up on itself. That clipping noise doesn't happen with every game though, so I'm not sure how much that is hardware's fault :\

… video in Sony Vegas, the problem is that the audio farts and a lot. I said that I know what's the problem, so here … the PC (the Olivetti, not my main PC), sometimes it farts a little less in some games. It's like some games "amplify …

I could make an ISO off the CD, but I dunno if this game is abandonware yet... I just tried with DxWnd again, it starts, but it lags a lot !!! Even the audio is choppy, it has got the "farting audio" especially when he talks and the game runs at like 5 - 10 FPS.