First post, by PowerPie5000
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Hi, i am starting to lose my patience with an old sound blaster audiopci card! I am using it in an old windows 98se machine and the card is using IRQ 9 under windows and is using IRQ 5 in it's legacy drivers.
The model is Creative CT4810 and as far as i know it is an Ensoniq 5880 (not sure if it's classed as SB16 or SB128? maybe Vibra 128??)
The problem is when i play "day of the tentacle" it crashes as soon as any digitised effect is played (both sound effects or speech). The midi music plays fine. It crashes when i set the sound to use IRQ 5 but when i set it to IRQ 7 the sound effects work but the speech just cuts out as soon as it is played. Also "monkey island 2" uses Roland sound instead of SB and "Monkey island 1" uses Adlib.... not sure why as it should be using SB sounds??
I have tried setting the legacy drivers to IRQ 5 and 7 with the same results! I even tried reserving those IRQ's in the system bios but still no luck 😒 If the card uses IRQ 7 then it is shared with the printer port (using LPT sharing in the drivers) but IRQ 5 is completely free and is the least compatible (always crashes!).
Oh and one last thing, the actual PCI IRQ for the card is 9 under windows which is also shared with the USB ports... As far as i remember the soundcard should not use an IRQ above 10 otherwise there will be no dos support even with legacy drivers.
Can anybody please help? thanks!