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First post, by Eimer

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Currently running windows 98se and a awe64 CT4520 (the one with the colored jacks)
Struggling to get full dos sound support in real dos mode (F8 on cold boot)
The driver disk doesn’t seem to come with all the required drivers for dos even though its listed in setup?
Anyways, I was able to get sound working but struggling to get opl music working.
Running ctcm did not work.

I found a workaround by downloading diagnose.exe.
This seems to load the required drivers along with the program. Quitting the GUI makes games like duke3d finally play the music.
But how can I integrate the drivers into config.sys and autoexec.bat without having to run the diagnostic tool everytime?

I’m still debating if I shouldn’t just install dos 6.22 on a separate drive and install the plain dos drivers but people keep telling me that it wouldn’t be necessary since it should work in win 98 dos mode with no problem and the advantages such ad fat32 support are worth it.

Any Suggestions/help ?

Reply 1 of 4, by Meatball

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Unless you really want Creative, have you tried Unisound?

UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.80a

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Reply 2 of 4, by Gmlb256

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Did you check how the resources for the AWE64 are set in Device Manager? Those settings affect the way how CTCM (which reads CTPNP.INI) initializes the sound card in MS-DOS mode.

P.S.: Don't use DIAGNOSE /S for initialization, that was intended for non-PnP Creative sound cards where only the IRQ and DMA channels can be configured on the fly.

Meatball wrote on 2023-06-05, 21:19:

Unless you really want Creative, have you tried Unisound?

UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.80a

That's the easy way out. BTW, UNISOUND isn't capable of applying reverb and chorus to the FM synth.