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DOS sound with Ensoniq ES1370 PCI

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First post, by adslh8yp

Posted on 2014-12-01, 09:58

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Hi all,

Well I've got an 'old' P4 setup and wanted to try to get some dos game sound support.
As such I'm using an Ensoniq ES1370 PCI sound card (for SB emulation).
Now I am aware that the only way to get proper dos support is via an ISA based card, but this is all I have to play with right now...

I have downloaded the dos drivers from the vogons drivers page, but they simply don't work for me.
It always says 'cannot detect' or 'not found'. The IRQ/DMA etc... are correct.

Any hints on how to get this working? if at all possible (though I have read that some have gotten it working, and well the card was advertised with some dos support and came with a driver CD that had dos drivers...).

I'm running Win98SE.

Any help would be great 😀

Reply 1 of 15, by Stojke

Posted on 2014-12-01, 10:45

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Are you sure the card is functional? It should be detected by Windows 98 at startup, either as Multimedia Audio Device or Unknown device.
If that didn't happen, something is wrong with the card (didnt get intialised).

Try placing it in another PCI slot.

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If it is detected, try manual driver installation.
Select the card from device manager and import the INI file into windows.

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Reply 2 of 15, by adslh8yp

Posted on 2014-12-01, 11:07

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Sound works fine in windows, but not in dos (be that boot straight to dos or while within windows.
Some dos games (such as doom) work fine in WinXP with sound (though music is only general midi and the music lags, soundfx are fine though).

Reply 3 of 15, by Stojke

Posted on 2014-12-01, 11:13

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It seems that you are missing either the Blaster environment variable or some ES1370 specific one in your Config.sys / Autoexec.bat .

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Reply 4 of 15, by adslh8yp

Posted on 2014-12-01, 11:16

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The driver from the vogons driver page had an included autoexec, and I used that (adjusted for irq/dma, though I did test it before I changed as well).

Reply 5 of 15, by Stojke

Posted on 2014-12-01, 11:27

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Try to reinstall and go trough every step manually.

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Reply 6 of 15, by adslh8yp

Posted on 2014-12-01, 11:28

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Yeah i've spent the better half of a day on this.
Re-installing everything, same output.

Was hoping that someone who had one of these knew a trick or something.
Ready to bin the pc now 🤣.

(I'm not actually going to do that 🤣)

Reply 7 of 15, by Stojke

Posted on 2014-12-01, 11:54

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Yeah I know how you feel 😁
But from my experience it was usually something very simple that I missed accidentally.

Just like the time i tried to set up that Terratec Maestro 3296, I thought it was possessed, but a simple -O command in the startup solved it (override settings).

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Reply 8 of 15, by jxhicks

Posted on 2014-12-01, 15:29

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Check your BIOS PNP settings. I remember having to turn PNP off to get this card to work properly in DOS.

Reply 9 of 15, by adslh8yp

Posted on 2014-12-01, 23:19

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PNP is off already (you do mean 'pnp os' right? then yes that option is off.

Reply 10 of 15, by Kamerat

Posted on 2015-02-10, 19:06

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Try this driver: ftp://89.179.20.136/oldftp/DRV&BIOS/Sound/ENS … NIQ/ES1370/DOS/

Working for me with a Creative 5507 on an i875 based motherboard.

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Reply 11 of 15, by PhilsComputerLab

Posted on 2015-02-11, 04:10

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I did a write up on this card a few years ago, maybe it's helpful: Ensoniq / Creative AudioPCI

All the drivers are attached.

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Reply 12 of 15, by Kamerat

Posted on 2015-02-11, 10:02

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Thanks for the link. Found out the Creative 5507 stutter some times in DOS, so I desided to try one on my Audigy 2 ZS cards (using Audigy driver and patch) that use the same driver model. Found out that the MT-32 mapping utility from the Ensoniq driver works with the Audigy and the stuttering are also gone.

DOS Sound Blaster compatibility: PCI sound cards vs. PCI chipsets
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Reply 13 of 15, by Kamerat

Posted on 2015-02-12, 21:09

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But the main problem here is that the DOS driver for the ES1371 and ES1373 won't work with the ES1370 (Creative 5507).

DOS Sound Blaster compatibility: PCI sound cards vs. PCI chipsets
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Reply 14 of 15, by Kahenraz

Posted on 2022-03-06, 08:52

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Kamerat wrote on 2015-02-10, 19:06:

Try this driver: ftp://89.179.20.136/oldftp/DRV&BIOS/Sound/ENS … NIQ/ES1370/DOS/

Working for me with a Creative 5507 on an i875 based motherboard.

Does anyone have a copy of this driver? I have found DOS drivers for 1371+ but not 1370 specifically.

Reply 15 of 15, by Kahenraz

Posted on 2022-03-06, 09:12

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Found it. Attaching it here.

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