PCGamingTimeMachine wrote on 2026-05-09, 19:31:

Thanks a lot Aaron, that's extremely helpful and I'll have a look at some of these. For the ones that crash after an FMV (e.g. Worms or Destruction Derby 2 or Alien Trilogy), have you tried them with regular VSBHDA and regular SHSUCDX? If there's a crash even with vanilla VSBHDA and SHSUCDX, then there might be something specific to these games. For example, Rayman was a particularly problematic game that needs a few tricks to play even with vanilla VSBHDA/SHSUCDX.

Which tricks you using to run Rayman ?

On my side the game only blackscreen or crash at running.

As far i know it's because this one require XMS (EMS need be disabled).
It's a similar issue as Atlantis The Lost Tales (DOS Version) and Wing Commander: Privateer.

With original Ensoniq/Sound Blaster driver it was impossible to run thoses games because of the need of EMS.
However now with VSBHDA it should be possible but not found how to make them run yet.

I didn't want to derail the Audigy Guide thread so I'll continue here. I mightve misremembered with Rayman and had tested it under Windows 98 rather than DOS/VSBHDA so apologies, I haven't managed to get that to work neither just now, I also tried HimemX and JEMM386 instead of JEMMEX and still black screen after the launcher. Also I wasn't able to install the game with VSBHDA running, I had to install it prior to running that. The only other game I've tested in DOS that needed its memory limiting was Aladdin (JEMMEX MAXEXT=32768) and that worked, but I can't use that with SHSU because it needs several hundred MB to mount the disc and I don't have a CD drive, so I guess SHSU won't work with anything that needs its ram limiting. I'm using the UK 1.21 copy of Rayman and the latest JEMM package (v5.87pre1).

Also I tested Full Throttle and Powerslave a few weeks ago, Powerslave seems to work fine but Full Throttle is a painful experience, unfortunately its also a problem with the regular SHSU where cutscenes will take like 30 seconds to load, I did beat it though.

Also there's a new version of VSBHDA available (1.9) if VSBHDARB is to get a new update, unless its fine to just overwrite the VSBHDARB.EXE with the new one from 1.9?