You're welcome and glad to be able to help. Hope you will solve your problem with the new card. Btw, the YMF744 needs dsdma driver to be loaded, which will put the PC into protected mode. In case you need to throttle when using the card (which ocp needs), I have a universal speed control utility …

I've tested using ocp player and children.mod, on an i815 motherboard with P3-1GHz Coppermine CPU and Yamaha YMF744, with CPUSPD T1. No such distortion that you mentioned, only occasion minor noise on the right channel, but that's most probably due to old capacitors on my old sound card (need to …

I get the noise/distortion while playing MODs even without throttling or disabling the cache. The distortion is as if the amplification is too high and the audio is getting clipped. But no settings in Audigy or in the MOD players seems to have any effect. Everything else plays fine. Hmm... could it …

When your MOD player is "making noise", are you throttling or with cache disabled? If so, are you able to run the player without throttling/cache disabled? Some south bridge has poor implementation on throttling, and will cause FM/SFX to stutter if they are emulated by software. Full hardware …

It is one of the best PCI cards you can have if you also want to do DOS gaming. However you will not get proper DOS sound with it unless your i815 motherboard has an SB-Link header. I've had much better luck with ForteMedia FM801 cards with i810/815 motherboards without SB-Link. I've tested the …

Hi ruthan, Not sure if you are interested, but I have written a small utility that is able to throttle Core 2 CPUs (among others) under EMS. It's over here. Never tested on X58 chipset though (I do not have one).

This is a very good board that is able to run DOS, Win 98 and XP games all in one machine.

I think this AOpen AW744L card was the one Philscomputerlab reviewed previously. It was selling for USD25 then. You can check out his video here.

Yamaha YMF744 is a great PCI sound card that has very good DOS compatibility, and it has genuine OPL3 to boost. I've tested it to run on all sorts of CPU/chipset/motherboard combinations including P3, P4, Core 2, AthlonXP, Athlon64, VIA/Intel/Nforce chipsets. Out of the about 30 motherboards I …

Using CF card for Windows swap space is not a good idea. It will kill the CF card in no time.

Maybe you could try using a PCI sound card like the Yamaha YMF744 or the ESS solo-1, since it has a PCI slot?

Stutters also on VIA C3 EPIA 800. Onboard Sound does not work proper with deactivated L1 etc. Thanks for helping out with the testing. Any idea which south bridge this board is using? When I tested on VIA 868 it seems fine, even though at times it might stutter. The best combo I find so far that …

CPUSPD version 1.1 released. Resolve incompatibility issue with Yamaha's DSDMA sound driver. Please download from first post. Sound card test results: Please note that we are only testing the proper functioning of the CPUSPD program here. Some sound cards might experience stuttering on certain …

This utility is for slowing down the CPU for DOS/Win98 retro gaming. It does this by programming the hardware directly to control the CPU's cache, multiplier (if unlocked), and frequency throttling. I wrote this program about a year ago for my own retro gaming use, and initially it was only for pure …

What version of SETUPDS is being used? Is it a modified one? No, it's an unmodified one from the driver package downloaded directly from Yamaha. Hi Kamerat, May I know if this setupds is version 3.16? I couldn't get it to work, dma will be disabled, unless it is modified and the south bridge vendor …