First post, by appiah4
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Last night I took apart, cleaned up and completely upgraded the whole system and then I tried to install the ISA riser card.. It did not fit; it's a completely different connector. It's apparently a GX1 riser card sold to me as a GX110 riser card. So..
Now I have to make do with a PCI only setup to cover Dos, Win9x and Win2k gaming. My current thinking is the Following:
- PCI Creative SB Live! CT4780 Dell OEM
- PCI ESS Solo-1 (For SB Pro emulation and ESFM, Line Out connected to Live! Line In)
So my questions are:
1. Is this a viable setup on an intel i810E motherboard?
2. I am installing the Live! card mostly for SF2 MIDI capability, SB16 Emulation will not be installed. Is this necessary? How good is ESS Solo-1 software Synth, and can it load SF2 files?
3. I can also use a Dreamblaster X3M with the Solo-1 as an external GM device. Maybe I should simply do only this?
4. Do I just install SB Live! drivers, followed by Solo-1 and DOS games automatically run on Solo-1's SB Pro emulation?
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