Originally posted by GunNuT_33 I'm having trouble figuring out how to use them...I'm kind of new to this, could you give me some advice?
For VDMSound, the recommended install procedure is here.
Once you're up-to-date, you right-click and choose "Run with VDMS" with the musical note on whatever run whatever BAT, COM or EXE file you need to run and it will create VLP shortcuts for you. If you need to adjust settings for one particular game, you adjust them on the VLP shortcut.
Just remember what Vlad's documentation clearly states, it's an audio card emulator, not a PC emulator. So if the program refuses to run on XP, running it with VDMSound may not fix your problem.
For DOOMSDAY, read his beginner's guide and FAQ here.
BTW, Blake Stone seems to run fine except (like many earlier Apogee titles) it tries to use the OPL3 for FM sound. OPL3 emulation isn't working in VDMSound just yet, so you should change the VDMSound emulation from "SoundBlaster 16" to "SoundBlaster Pro".
Go to your VLP shortcut, get it's Properties --> Advanced -->"SoundBlaster" tab -->Change "SoundBlaster16" to "SoundBlaster Pro"-->Click OK -->Click OK.
That should force BlakeStone to use the OPL2 emulation for FM sound.