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First post, by Soupdragon

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Which order should I have the sound card setup lines in my dos 6.22 autoexec.bat file

I have 2 sound cards a jumpered sb32 with real opl3 and a gravis ultrasound max plus a mpu-ipc-t midi interface.

The reason I ask is some times I will install a game and go to set up the sound and as i go through the sound blaster set up options it will default to odd settings not the standard a220, irq 5 and dma 1.

Below is my autoexec.bat at the moment any other tweaks are welcome:

@ECHO OFF
LH C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE /X
LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:CDROM1 /L:E
LH C:\DOS\KEYB UK,,C:\DOS\KEYBOARD.SYS
LH C:\DOS\DOSKEY.COM
LH C:\DRIVERS\CTMOUSE\CTMOUSE.EXE /P
PROMPT $P$G
SET DIRCMD=/O
SET PATH=C:\ULTRASND;C:\DOS
SET TMP=C:\TEMP
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
SET ULTRASND=240,3,3,7,7
SET ULTRADIR=C:\DRIVERS\ULTRASND
SET ULTRA16=34C,0,0,1,0
C:\DRIVERS\ULTRASND\ULTRINIT.EXE -DJ
SET SOUND=C:\DRIVERS\SB16
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P300 E620 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
C:\DRIVERS\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S
C:\DRIVERS\SB16\AWEUTIL /S
C:\DRIVERS\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q

Reply 1 of 6, by Mau1wurf1977

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Put a REM + space before the line with SET ULTRASND and see if it makes a difference.

REM skips that line, so it's easy for testing!

Isn't is possible to configure the Ultrasound without SB emulation?

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Reply 2 of 6, by Soupdragon

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I removed the setblaster line the GUS setup put in for the sb emultation when I installed the sb32 I assume that turned it off.

Is the line SET ULTRA16=34C,0,0,1,0 even needed what does it do?

Reply 3 of 6, by Jolaes76

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It must be the Windows Sound System configuration line. Can be remmed out again. But why do you have two ultrasnd directories, one in the root and another in a subdir...?

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Reply 5 of 6, by elianda

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Usually SMARTDRV should be loaded after all logical drives are installed, so it should appear after MSCDEX. I would also set the cache sizes manually.
For a low memory system maybe 512 256 or high memory 4096 256.
If you don't want the cd drive read cached use /U.

I commonly move all the DOS related SETs to the beginning of the file. You can use the PATH setting then already for loading drivers f.e.
Then I tend to put soundcard initialization into separate batches and just call them.

A config.sys dump would also add more insight to the drivers loaded. As you use LH I guess you loaded EMM386.EXE but did you use RAM AUTO ?

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Reply 6 of 6, by Soupdragon

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Thanks elianda, I have updated the files alittle

Autoexec.bat

@ECHO OFF
LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:CDROM1
LH C:\DOS\KEYB UK,,C:\DOS\KEYBOARD.SYS
LH C:\DOS\DOSKEY.COM
C:\DRIVERS\CTMOUSE\CTMOUSE.EXE
PROMPT $P$G
SET DIRCMD=/O
SET PATH=C:\DRIVERS\ULTRASND;C:\DOS
SET TMP=C:\TEMP
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP

SET ULTRASND=240,3,3,7,7
SET ULTRADIR=C:\DRIVERS\ULTRASND
C:\DRIVERS\ULTRASND\ULTRINIT.EXE -DJ

SET SOUND=C:\DRIVERS\SB16
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P300 E620 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
C:\DRIVERS\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S
C:\DRIVERS\SB16\AWEUTIL /S
C:\DRIVERS\SB16\MIXERSET /P /Q

Config.sys

SWITCHES /F
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM AUTO
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DRIVERS\CDROM\QCDROM.SYS /D:CDROM1
FILES=40
BUFFERS=40
STACKS=9,256
LASTDRIVE=Z
FCBS=4,0
COUNTRY=044,,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS

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