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SB Live! SB16 Emulation in Windows

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First post, by AdamP

Posted on 2011-09-10, 14:51

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Hi,

I hope this is the right place.

I have a SBLive! (CT4760) which works fine in Windows. The SB16 Emulation works fine in pure DOS, but I cannot for the life of me get it to work at all, whatsoever, in Windows. The driver never installs automatically and a manual install doesn't work. I am using Windows 98SE.

I am using the drivers (yes, I'm using the VXD drivers, although I had a hard time persuading Windows to use them instead of the WDM drivers) that came on the CD (which curiously, also had Audigy drivers and software on it, despite being a Live! CD). I think I did manage to get it working once (in an old installation of Windows 95) by using older drivers, but then I couldn't use some of the advanced features, and I don't think the software recognised it.

Autoexec.bat:

1@if exist C:\WININST0.400\SuWarn.Bat call C:\WININST0.400\SuWarn.Bat
2@if exist C:\WININST0.400\SuWarn.Bat del C:\WININST0.400\SuWarn.Bat
3SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
4SET CTSYN=C:\sbdos
5rem lh C:\windows\emm386 auto
6
7C:\sbdos\sbeinit
8rem C:\sbdos\sbeload
9rem LH C:\windows\command\MSCDEX.EXE /S /D:mscd001
10rem lh C:\mouse\mouse.com
11
12;SET PATH=%PATH%;C:\PROGRA~1\BORLAND\DELPHI5\BIN;C:\PROGRA~1\BORLAND\DELPHI5\PROJECTS\BPL
13lh mode con codepage prepare=((850) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
14lh mode con codepage select=850
15lh keyb uk,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keyboard.sys

Config.sys:

1dos=high,umb,auto
2device=C:\windows\himem.sys /testmem:off
3devicehigh=C:\windows\command\emm386.exe noems 
4devicehigh=C:\windows\setver.exe
5;devicehigh=C:\windows\command\oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 
6devicehigh=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
7Country=044,850,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys
8

ctsyn.ini:

1[ctsyn.drv]
2OPLPort=388
3MPUPort=330
4SBPort=220
5SBIRQ=5
6SBDMALO=1
7SBDMAHI=5
8SBEnable=true
9JoyPort=200
10JoyEnable=true
11Waveset=C:\sbdos\default.ecw
12PCIPort=1420
13PCIIRQ=10
14
15[SBEINIT]
16CONFIG=SBESET.CFG
17
18[SBESET.CFG]
19SBPORT=220
20MPUPORT=330
21SBIRQ=5
22SBDMALO=1
23SBDMAHI=5
24OPLPORT=388
25SBENABLE=TRUE
26JOYPORT=200
27JOYENABLE=TRUE
28WAVESET=C:\SBDOS\DEFAULT.ECW
29PCIPORT=1420
30PCIIRQ=10

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Reply 1 of 6, by RichB93

Posted on 2011-09-10, 21:43

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I had this, after moving cards around it eventually worked. Strange conflict.

Reply 2 of 6, by AdamP

Posted on 2011-09-12, 01:22

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I tried moving the card to another PCI slot, but that didn't work. I think it's worth noting that the same slot used to have an Aureal Vortex card, whose SB Pro emulation did work in Windows.

I think I may try Liveware 3 and see if that works

Reply 3 of 6, by Dominus

Posted on 2011-09-12, 05:03

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Try temporarily disabling the sb joystick, deleting the emulation again, reboot and hope it gets correctly found then. If that works you need to play with the joystick irq,dma settings when you enable it again.

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Reply 4 of 6, by Jolaes76

Posted on 2011-09-12, 22:54

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Migrating the card usually works because the allocated IRQ and memory range will get changed. But the card must be recognised as a new card. So you must purge all traces of the drivers from registry. Boot in safe mode and delete ALL Creative card components (instances) present under Sound and Game controllers, also from Multimedia Devices... etc.

Then use a registry cleaner tool that can purge Creative drivers.
After that, you can reinstall the drivers. This method worked for me in most cases. (I never succeeded in manually installing SB16 emulation either.)

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Reply 5 of 6, by AdamP

Posted on 2011-09-17, 02:26

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I got it working! 😀

And it didn't involve moving cards or disabling features (actually I did try that but it didn't work). I just completely uninstalled the drivers from the CD and installed Live!Ware 3.0 (from here) and used the driver utility, and voilà! The SB16 Emulation and everything else was automatically detected and installed.

But I've noticed that this SB16 Emulation driver uses CTSYN.vxd instead of CTSB16.vxd. I wonder if the CTSB16.vxd driver is for the Audigy and not the Live!?