I ran the dos box and tried to load Cyber Empires (the one created by Silicon Knights) and the sound and music stutters like mad. Yes, I did fiddle with the frameskip and the speed (ctrl+f11 or Ctrl+f12) to no avail. I also increased the buffers from 10 to 40 and still the same problem. BUT I will say this; For some reason, when I mounted the C to c:\ (The game was on the c:\) and the e to E:\, selected no joystick and adlib/soundblaster, it ran 100% smoothly. I was so tickled pink, I shut dos box down (Ctrl+f9) and tried to start the game up with a joystick this time. Stuttered like mad. After seven computer restarts, 21 tries with different configs, I could never get it to work again. I'm aware that the SB Live was one of the worst cards developed by Creative for DOS games, but there must be something I did to get it to work by accident before.

I tried to load or install that VDMsound only to have it tell me that I must be an Administrator to install the software. That's the first time I've seen that on my Windows 98se system. As a result, I don't know if VDM will help.

I'm glad to have found this place and hope I can help out as much as I'm helped.