Anyone else you doesn't have luck with playing CD Audio tracks in Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120%?
I might have a workaround and need some testers please.
EDIT:
This is what worked for me on a Slot 1 Pentium III with Matrox G550 and Vortex 2 PCI card as well as Netgear PCI NIC.
- I installed Windows 98
- Installed chipset drivers
- Installed graphics drivers
- Installed sound drivers
- Device manager > Moved DVD drive to letter O:
- Installed Installer 2.0 (Daemon Tools 3.47 needs that)
- Installed Daemon Tools 3.47
- Mounted various BIN/CUE games > confirmed that CD Audio tracks don't play (HDD activity shows streaming going on, but no sounds)
- At this point I haven't installed DirectX!
To get Audio CD tracks playing in OpenGL games, such as Quake or Quake II, I ran DXDIAG > select audio tab > move acceleration slider all the way to the left, then press the "test audio button" and complete all tests.
At this point, GLQuake and Quake II played the Audio CD tracks.
Now to play D3D games I installed DirectX7. This broke Audio CD playback again 🙁
To get it working again I did:
- Downloaded that Unoffical SP3
- Installed the core updates > reboot
- Installed DX9.0c > reboot
After this you can do the same workaround with DXDIAG as above and now Audio CD tracks play in OpenGL and D3D games. I tested GLQuake, Quake II and Incoming.
The Vortex drivers are the recommended 2041 drivers (VXD).
I am still not 100% confident about this workaround, and some steps might not be necessary. For example I didn't try just installing DX9 (it actually didn't work for me without the core updates) and I didn't try DX8 for example.
Also, before I figured all that out, I did try various sound cards:
VXD drivers: Audican 32 Plus with Yamaha chipset, Vortex 2 and Sound Blaster 16
WDM drivers: Creative SB PCI (Audio PCI) and Audigy LS
None of them worked. So I don't think VXD / WDM drivers are the root cause. I think it's more a communication issue between Daemon Tools and the OS, which might require DX9 files or files from the core update files?
Anyway, hopefully others could give this a shot if you have the time 😁