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First post, by Duffman

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I managed to salvage a sb16 from a storage room of old computers at a warehouse, I plugged it in to my old machine and installed the XP drivers, and set the settings to: IRQ:7 8DMA:1 16DMA:5

But when I try to play my old games (Duke nukem 3d, blood, rise of the triad) the sound is still crap even though the settings work!

Why isnt it working??

old machine:
CPU: 400mhz celeron
OS: Windows XP
VGA: Geforce 2 Ti

MB: ASRock B550 Steel Legend
CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X
RAM: Corsair 64GB Kit (4x16GB) DDR4 Veng LPX C18 4000MHz
SSDs: 2x Crucial MX500 1TB SATA + 1x Samsung 980 (non-pro) 1TB NVMe SSD
OSs: Win 11 Pro (NVMe) + WinXP Pro SP3 (SATA)
GPU: RTX2070 (11) GT730 (XP)

Reply 1 of 6, by eL_PuSHeR

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It's not uncommon having timing issues under Windows systems because most ms-dos games tended to program PIT (Programmable Interrupt Timer) directly. If you are using VDMSound you could try tinkering with timing options (under advanced) like capping DOS frequency or trying to reduce CPU usage. Sometimes, it helps. You could also try some slowdown utility.

Reply 2 of 6, by Duffman

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Is there a way to turn off XPs Soundblaster emulation and use a real soundblaster 16?? or would there still be timing issues?

MB: ASRock B550 Steel Legend
CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X
RAM: Corsair 64GB Kit (4x16GB) DDR4 Veng LPX C18 4000MHz
SSDs: 2x Crucial MX500 1TB SATA + 1x Samsung 980 (non-pro) 1TB NVMe SSD
OSs: Win 11 Pro (NVMe) + WinXP Pro SP3 (SATA)
GPU: RTX2070 (11) GT730 (XP)

Reply 3 of 6, by eL_PuSHeR

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I think it's newer Operating Systems that are making timing issues to occur. MS-DOS was a mono-tasking os that had all level of privileges when running. Modern multi-tasking OSes are far different.

Reply 4 of 6, by Qbix

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timing issues are unrelated to the used soundcard.
it's just windows multitasking idea that messes up the internal timers

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Reply 5 of 6, by Duffman

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Is there any way of fixing this timing problem in windows?

MB: ASRock B550 Steel Legend
CPU: Ryzen 9 5950X
RAM: Corsair 64GB Kit (4x16GB) DDR4 Veng LPX C18 4000MHz
SSDs: 2x Crucial MX500 1TB SATA + 1x Samsung 980 (non-pro) 1TB NVMe SSD
OSs: Win 11 Pro (NVMe) + WinXP Pro SP3 (SATA)
GPU: RTX2070 (11) GT730 (XP)