First post, by DoktorNuts
Recently i got an old Pentium 4 machine from someone who wanted to get rid of it, and since i was looking for older machines to play older games and such, i've installed Windows 98 on it, the Windows part works great so far, but i've started to run into some problems when i wanted to play some late DOS games like Blood, the first problem was that the integrated chipset audio doesn't support "legacy" modes, so, i installed a Crystal CS4281 which i had laying around that has Soundblaster modes on it, under Windows itself it works fine, but with DOS games the results weren't the best ones, while i did get sound this time, it wasn't the result that i was expecting, sounds got crackled under DOS or did not play at all, i was using a VxD driver, so i tried a newer WDM driver in which the sound finally worked properly, but now i lost MIDI/FM Synthesis support in the process, now Windows refused to play MIDI files and the same was with DOS, here are my specs:
Motherboard: Biostar U8668 Pro
Processor: Pentium 4 2,4 GHz
GPU: GeForce 4 MX 4000 128MB
RAM : 512MB
Sound Card: Crystal CS4281
OS: Windows 98 SE