What are the rest of your system specs?

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-06-26, 20:15:

What are the rest of your system specs?

440BX dtk prm-0080i-e1
Pentium III 500.
384MB ram
2x V2 SLI
AGP Rage Pro Turbo.

Are you using SETUPDS /s to initialize the card before going into Windows?

If not, I would suggest doing that.

Then you can use SETUPDS to set the different volume levels and it will save it in the SETUPDS.INI file so the next time you boot, when SETUPDS /s runs, it will load your saved volume levels.

If your motherboard has a PC-PCI or SB-Link header, it would be best to connect the sound card to that and you will get the best possible compatibility for DOS games as it will act pretty much like an ISA sound card instead of having to use DDMA. If your card doesn't have the PC-PCI connector installed, it is a really straightforward project. Link is in my sig.

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-06-26, 21:15:

Are you using SETUPDS /s to initialize the card before going into Windows? […]
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Are you using SETUPDS /s to initialize the card before going into Windows?

If not, I would suggest doing that.

Then you can use SETUPDS to set the different volume levels and it will save it in the SETUPDS.INI file so the next time you boot, when SETUPDS /s runs, it will load your saved volume levels.

If your motherboard has a PC-PCI or SB-Link header, it would be best to connect the sound card to that and you will get the best possible compatibility for DOS games as it will act pretty much like an ISA sound card instead of having to use DDMA. If your card doesn't have the PC-PCI connector installed, it is a really straightforward project. Link is in my sig.

I have a pin on the board for it but I don't currently have a soldering setup or skills right now.

As for SETUPDS. That would go in autoexec correct?

Duke 3D also crashes in Windows98 Dosbox. I'm gonna assume all BUILD games just don't like this card as is?

Tiny bit of a deal breaker.

SETUPDS will go in Autoexec.bat.

It should work just fine in Duke 3D. Even without using a system that supports DDMA, Phil shows it working in his review, starting at the 16:24 timestamp.
https://youtu.be/vNCg_zy1_d4

I can test on a 440BX setup to make sure on my end if you want.

Guessing it is just a config problem.

SodaSuccubus wrote on 2020-06-27, 03:08:

Duke 3D also crashes in Windows98 Dosbox. I'm gonna assume all BUILD games just don't like this card as is?

With my YMF724, Duke3D crashes under the Win98 DOS prompt, while working fine in pure DOS (Restart in MS-DOS mode). This happens on a motherboard that doesn't have SB-Link but does support DDMA.

However, I have recently acquired a second computer with a motherboard that does have a SB-Link header. With the card connected through SB-Link, Duke3D no longer crashes under Windows and of course works perfectly in pure DOS. For reference, I used Windows drivers version 1040 and DOS drivers version 3.16 both downloaded from Phil's website.