Unrealcpu wrote on 2021-03-22, 14:30:
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I have a few issues that I need help with .
When connecting my speaker wire from the sound card to the motherboard I get feed back and can barely hear the pc speaker sounds through my stereo speakers. It does this o n my other CT1740s as well , so not sure what I am doing wrong since the drivers are installed and sb16set program was used to set volume. My CT1600 di d not do this
Usually that's something in mixerset not set correctly. Maybe worth posting your mixerset settings.
another issue is that this card had general midi support for mt-32 yet will not work on Ultima VI or wing commander.? I am assuming these are intelligent mode games? Soft mpu works but i thought i didnt need to use this program since the mpuu 401 is on the sound card.
MPU-401 comes in two flavours: basic UART and intelligent mode. These cards support UART only, not intelligent mode. You need SoftMPU for that, so behaviour is as expected. Only MPU-401 itself, successors and clones support intelligent mode. The only sound cards that do are Roland LAPC-I and SCC-I (and the community made Orpheus, if you bought the extended version).
SB16 has UART only with varying levels of bugginess. The 4.05 is the least buggy, with only slowdowns when playing MIDI at the same time as 16b digital audio. You won't notice this on MT-32 games as none use 16b audio.
Also space quest V hangs and takes forever to boot with soft mpu 401 with mt32 any idea ? I thought 4.05 fw was the best
Personally I hated the x-Quest games with a passion, so no recent experience with them. However I'm aware that SQV doesn't require intelligent mode, and that it is speed sensitive, failing to initialize audio hardware on CPUs faster than a ~20MHz 486. You don't say what kind of system you're running, but if it's faster than this you might have to slow it down.