I recently ran into an annoying little problem when trying to make Earthsiege 2 work perfectly on Windows 10. I know there are "Windows 95 via Dosbox" options for this game, but I still would like to play it natively in Win1064.

It's running quite well with a lot of tricks, one of them is enabling analogue joystick controls by setting "Emulate Joystick" for
the game exes in Microsoft's Compatibility Administrator.

Now here is the problem: When I try to patch one of the exes ("DBSIM.EXE") for getting redbook audio tracks to play, inmm does its joy like expected for the music, but the joystick controls /emulation cease to work.
Now, you can of course mount an bin/cue image of the game cd in a virtual drive playing the correct songs, but they never loop (a classical problem with redbook audio on contemporary systems AFAIR).

So you either have analogue joystick controls (which is especially nice to have when flying jets in that game) or persistent background music, damn.

I'm puzzled by this behaviour, maybe inmm.dll changes something in the soundblaster calls, and, as back then joystick were all attached to soundcards, this somehow messes up the settings.

Do you folks know more about tools/emulation settings for virtual drives to fix this classical "loop"problem WITHOUT using inmm.dll? Or some trick to make inmm.dll refrain from killing joystick compatibility as I described above? I'd be very happy to know.