A problem I've had for quite some time, though it seems to have gotten slightly more frequent recently (I usually use the latest SVN revision when one is available).

Here's the thing - my emulated Sound Blaster 16 randomly ceases to exist. Games fail to initialize it, some of them even tell me I have no sound card installed. Games that auto-detect sound blaster are most prone to this issue (e.g. Wolf 3D, Blake Stone) - they'd start without any sound/music, and the sound blaster options are not selectable (darkened) in the sound options menu.

The problem is usually solved by restarting DOSBox... but not always. Today it happened three time in a row, sound only reappeared at the fourth run. During all three previous times, the sound blaster simply "did not exist". Trying other games produced the same results - some even refused to start due to looking for an incorrect sound card.

I use the default settings, with one exception - IRQ is changed to 5 (default value is 7) due to an old habit (from the 1990's, when I had a real DOS PC).

If anyone can offer me help with this issue, I'd be very grateful 😀