First post, by Kordanor
Heyho!
After having used DOS on my machine so far, it was finally time to do some stuff on Windows 98SE. But while the soundcard worked fine in DOS, it seems to have issues in Windows.
In Windows itself Sound playbay is perfectly fine, this also includes playback of Midi.
But then I installed Hexen 2. And you can switch from CD audio (which works fine) to midi music, but that one doesnt play.
Next I installed Duke Nukem 3d. This worked fine under DOS, but under Windows only the Sound Effects work. Musik is mute (SoundBlaster+Adlib). If I select General Midi it works. But ofc that doesnt sound great.
I tried the standard drivers from Win98SE. I tried drivers from Vogons: http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1870&menustate=0
And I tried to try the driver from PhilsComputerLab: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ess-audiodrive-es1868.html however, this one didnt install (clicking on the exe does nothing, and doing it via device manager fails due to "essisa.cat" missing.
Any idea about what could be wrong here?