1) I don't think the brand of ram on the cards matters. 2) Any slot is fine 3) No idea, sorry 4) 2d elements in 3d games are still drawn by the 3d cards, a HUD element in a 3d game will be drawn on a rectangle made up of triangles with alpha blending/testing enabled to cut out transparent pixels 5) …

Did you actually try it? Last time I did test DN2 on a 82C931, sfx didn't work just as expected. I don't have any card with the 82C930, but I don't see why the 82C930 would work when the 82C929 and 82C931 don't. The datasheet says "IMA ADPCM" support, but I'm not certain that this is the same ADPCM …

I have this exact card, I can confirm it's OPTi 928 based. The midi interface isn't MPU401 compatible, I couldn't get stereo to work, and I believe the audio quality was crappy as well but I'm not sure. Also, no Win95/98 drivers.

That is by far the most hassle free combination you can go for, and you can have both pieces of hardware new. Unless you are going to invest in a MIDI Tower setup or some other such prohibitively expensive investment into MIDI music, I would get a known hassle-free ISA card with a genuine OPL3 or a …

I know this is an old thread but I have been struggling with this issue as well, on my PCI Voodoo 3 3000. Horizontal lines skipping around in Duke3D vga mode, and a staticy image in vesa mode. Also, lines in Quake. The lines are fixed by using MTRRLFBE in either 'WP' or 'WT' mode. Uncached and 'WC' …

[*]I presume that you are in SBPRO mode and not in WSS mode? What sound card are you selecting in the game's setup menu? Your DMA channel must be 1. Is your SET BLASTER environment variable properly defined in your Autoexec.bat file? Make sure you select the same DMA & IRQ settings as what your …

Arrgh. The issue with the 1st gen. cards with the AZTSSPT0592-U01 chip is the MPU-401 isn't compatible for MS-DOS, except for Windows 3.11 (95 and higher won't work with it, I believe). Actually, the MIDI port on these 1st generation cards aren't MPU-401 compatible at all. They are, however, …