cyclone3d wrote:bergqvistjl wrote:I think people are mis-understanding what i'm looking for. I'm looking for a PCI sound card that works/has drivers for running DOS games WITHIN Windows 98. Currently I have an audigy2 ZS, and as far as dos games go - any games I use simply fail to detect the sound card. I switched to VxD drivers, AND installed the SB16 emulation driver that was on the disc - but Windows complains its unable to start the SB16 Emulation device then 😒
Either you have a configuration problem... may need to change the card to a different PCI slot and/or change some BIOS settings to make it work.
What are the specs of the rest of your system? Specific brand, model, revision and BIOS version of motherboard may be important.
I have an ASUS TUSL2-C mobo rev 1.04, v1012 BIOS, with a Voodoo 3 3500TV in the AGP Slot.
I have tried the sound card in both PCI slot 2 & 3.
Only if I install the DOS drivers for the audigy 1, does Win98 detect the SB16 Emulation device. However device manager tells me it's unable to start the device. It gives me the options of configuring settings manually, but whatever I pick, I then get a BSOD fatal exception error - although when it returns, It appears to have started the device. If I then attempt to run my sound setup program, it detects the parameters, but when I attempt to test the sound - it throws an exception and quits.) So very odd. Installing the Audigy 2 patch for the drivers makes no difference.
Maybe it's cos it doesn't like the Audidgy 2ZS? Would an SB Live or Audigy 1 be better?