First post, by Matombo
Hi,
so i dug up an old PC from 2002 from the basement and wanted to make it a Dos retro gaming machine using Windows 98.
However sound does work in windows itself but not in dos games. The PC does not have a dedicated sound card but an integrated "ALi Audio Accelerator" on the mainboard: http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/soyo/SY-K7ADAv10.htm
The driver I use is the ULi Integrated 2.13 https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/uli-drivers/ (the installer for 2.20 crashes every time)
I read that dos games need a vxd driver and most windows 98 drivers are wdm, but when i look in the driver info on my system i see 3 files: ali51wdm.sys, VMM32.VXD, and MMDEVLDR.VXD
Seeing both files with wdm and vxd i gues the driver should support both systems?
Are there alternative drivers I can install? like unbranded realtek drivers? (nowadays most integrated audio chips are realtek anyways but not all are labled as such, was it the same back in the days of win98?)
The 2 Games i tried are Hugo Gold (German Edition) and The Smurfs (German Edition). Hugo is only supported on NT and 95 offically and The Smurfs only on Dos and Windows 95.