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First post, by Biggie Z

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I recently swapped out my SB16 to a AWE64 to get rid of the hanging note bug with my SC-55. I reinstalled W98 and now DOS games refuse to play music out of the SC-55. I have the games all set to Sound Canvas/330 but the games all play music out of the AWE64's MIDI synth instead. I did not have this problem with the old SB16. Autoexec.bat is currently set as such:

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
SET SOUND=C:\SB16
SET MIDI=SYNTH:2 MAP:G MODE:0

SYNTH:2 should set it to external MIDI as I understand but it's not working. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

Dell XPS M_s: Pentium MMX 233, 128MB PC-66, Matrix Mill II 8MB, AWE64 CT4380, Maxtor 6GB HDD, Dell AT101W, W98SE
IBM PC-350: AM5x86 133MHz, 16MB SIMMs, S3-805 VLB 2MB, SB16 CT1740, Quantum Fireball 1280MB HDD, IBM Model M, MS-DOS 6.22
Roland SC-55, SC-50

Reply 1 of 8, by fitzpatr

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The AWE64 is a Plug and Play card. Have you installed the drivers? Do you run AWEUTIL in your autoexec?

MT-32 Old, CM-32L, CM-500, SC-55mkII, SC-88Pro, SC-D70, FB-01, MU2000EX
K6-III+/450/GA-5AX/G400 Max/Voodoo2 SLI/CT1750/MPU-401AT/Audigy 2ZS
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Reply 2 of 8, by Biggie Z

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I figured it out for anyone else who wants to know, I had to disable AWE64 Wavetable MIDI in the device manager.

Dell XPS M_s: Pentium MMX 233, 128MB PC-66, Matrix Mill II 8MB, AWE64 CT4380, Maxtor 6GB HDD, Dell AT101W, W98SE
IBM PC-350: AM5x86 133MHz, 16MB SIMMs, S3-805 VLB 2MB, SB16 CT1740, Quantum Fireball 1280MB HDD, IBM Model M, MS-DOS 6.22
Roland SC-55, SC-50

Reply 4 of 8, by GabrielKnight123

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Hi Biggie Z I just bought a AWE64 and im waiting for it in the post can you tell me what driver you used for Win98se and dos, and where did you find the setting in device manager?

Reply 5 of 8, by Biggie Z

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GabrielKnight123 wrote:

Hi Biggie Z I just bought a AWE64 and im waiting for it in the post can you tell me what driver you used for Win98se and dos, and where did you find the setting in device manager?

Hi, Windows 98 will install the drivers automatically, if you're not doing a clean install, you'll need the Windows 98 CD. For DOS you can download the drivers from the creative website here: http://support.creative.com/Products/ProductD … ET=CategoryID:1

Dell XPS M_s: Pentium MMX 233, 128MB PC-66, Matrix Mill II 8MB, AWE64 CT4380, Maxtor 6GB HDD, Dell AT101W, W98SE
IBM PC-350: AM5x86 133MHz, 16MB SIMMs, S3-805 VLB 2MB, SB16 CT1740, Quantum Fireball 1280MB HDD, IBM Model M, MS-DOS 6.22
Roland SC-55, SC-50

Reply 6 of 8, by Biggie Z

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New problem, when you disable Wavetable MIDI in the device manager, external MIDI devices work, but SB music stops working so games like Wolfenstein 3D that don't use MIDI have no sound. The AWE64 is really starting to stress me out. Does anyone have any ideas?

Dell XPS M_s: Pentium MMX 233, 128MB PC-66, Matrix Mill II 8MB, AWE64 CT4380, Maxtor 6GB HDD, Dell AT101W, W98SE
IBM PC-350: AM5x86 133MHz, 16MB SIMMs, S3-805 VLB 2MB, SB16 CT1740, Quantum Fireball 1280MB HDD, IBM Model M, MS-DOS 6.22
Roland SC-55, SC-50

Reply 7 of 8, by Biggie Z

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RFR wrote:

I have a similar problem with my sc-88.
I'm gonna give this a try tomorrow.

RFR and anyone else interested, I finally figured out how to configure the AWE64 for external MIDI without disabling anything. My specific card is the CT4380. Here are the steps:

1: If you haven't already install the AWE64 CD driver and Creative software. Download from here: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … menustate=42,35
2: Go to Start>Programs>Sound Blaster AWE64>AWE Control
3: Click on "Device near the bottom left
4: Uncheck both Allow "WaveTable Synthesis Only" and "Allow MPU401 Emulation on this device"
5: Now both SB music and external MIDI devices should work.

Dell XPS M_s: Pentium MMX 233, 128MB PC-66, Matrix Mill II 8MB, AWE64 CT4380, Maxtor 6GB HDD, Dell AT101W, W98SE
IBM PC-350: AM5x86 133MHz, 16MB SIMMs, S3-805 VLB 2MB, SB16 CT1740, Quantum Fireball 1280MB HDD, IBM Model M, MS-DOS 6.22
Roland SC-55, SC-50