Hi! I have a k6-2 machine I've had for 10 years now! I've recently reinstalled win98 on it (after this machine being dead and driveless for a couple years), and am having directx sound issues. Most of the major games (quake 2, descent 2), etc have working sound, but a few are really glitchy. For instance, in Prince of Persia 3D, all the sounds are garbled. POP3d only needs DX 6.1, and I'm running DX 7. I reinstalled DX, but any game trying to use any 'fancy' DX features is a big fail.

I think it might be time to switch sound cards. I remember a long time ago the sound was perfect, but if I remember right, I think back then I had a Aureal card in there.

Currently, this machine is running a Media Vision PAS-16. (ISA)

I do have a Sound Blaster 16 ISA in a DOS machine. I think the SB is a slightly better card, so I could swap the two... the PAS should work fine in the other machine.

BUT... Here's my big questions:

-Does anyone know if the SB16 is better at handling DirectX (7) than the PAS? Both cards are about-as-old.

-Can anyone recommend a good PCI sound card that still has '98 support? I tried some $15 Inland 'crap' from Fry's and it just plain didn't work. (It was WDM... maybe I need DX9 for that? But my voodoo3 won't go up to 9, so forget that.)

-I've found PCI cards tend to be buggy for DOS games. Theoretically, I shouldn't have any trouble keeping an ISA card in the machine for DOS games, and just use the PCI card for Windows. (I could even chain one line out to the other's line in and it should 'just work.') Has anyone actually done a ISA+PCI sound card setup like this and had it work well? (Or if you had major problems, I would like to hear about that too. I may have to disable LPT1 or COM1 to get enough interrupts, but I don't use those ports anymore.