Re: Not Another Ultimate Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2022-08-21, 17:11

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I understand this can be happening in a few games. But we cannot draw general conclusions based on single game - Quake 2. It wasn't just Quake 2, that's just the most prominent example. I had huge performance differences (all around 50%) in Unreal Tournament 99 and Drakan too. And of course in all …

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Re: Not Another Ultimate Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2022-08-21, 16:21

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I reproduced the missing AGP video memory problem on my MSI K8T Neo V (even with the oldest BIOS 7032v11), however I'm not convinced whether this issue is also affecting games rather than just synthetic benchmarks. It does. Back when I first encountered this, I measured almost a 50% difference in …

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Re: Guide: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2)

Posted on 2022-08-20, 13:58

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Anyway, I'm now trying to figure out how to have an Audigy 2 ZS and an ISA sound card at the same system, any advice would be appreciate. This should be doable, as long as the cards use different resources. For example, if you set the ISA sound card to A220, I5, D1, P330 and the Audigy to A240, I7, …

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Re: A good windows xp creative sound card on the cheap?

Posted on 2022-08-20, 09:09

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I had another motherboard and cpu laying around a gigabyte ga-ma790fxt-ud5p and a amd athlon phenom ii x6 1090t tried play serious sam on it with the on board audio and it had eax enabled is that normal? Yes. Many on-board sound solutions from the mid to late 2000s had up to EAX 2 support. This was …

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Re: Guide: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2)

Posted on 2022-08-20, 05:16

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by Joseph_Joestar

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During the installation I got the yellow bang SB16 emulation and I had to manually add a second one to make it work, so up to this point it behaves exactly like the Creative SB350 Audigy 2 ZS. On the device manager I only have Audigy Audio processor and the 2 SB16 emulations, no Audigy gameport or …

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Re: Guide: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2)

Posted on 2022-08-19, 04:34

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I don't think you can have CD digital audio without using the WDM drivers.this feature is disabled otherwise. There are two ways to get digital CD audio. One which uses the internal IDE bus and another which uses a SPDIF cable going from the CD-ROM drive to the CD_SPDIF header on the sound card. …

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Re: Guide: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2)

Posted on 2022-08-19, 04:08

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I do not have the "CD Digital" and it's not available to unhide on properties. Keep in mind that I don't have an optical drive attached at the sound card currently, not sure if it makes any difference. Too bad, I was hoping the bug might not be present on the Dell card, since it behaves differently …

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Re: Guide: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2)

Posted on 2022-08-19, 01:38

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I removed the SB16 emulation with the yellow bang and everything still works fine, both in Windows and pure DOS. Very interesting. It looks like the OEM/Dell ZS model behaves like an Audigy1 in this aspect, which is actually more desirable from a retro gaming standpoint. Can you check one more …

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Re: Recommendation/Review For Sound Cards

Posted on 2022-08-19, 00:38

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by Joseph_Joestar

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- WSS support (although I'm not aware of any games that offer WSS that do not also offer SB16) There are a couple of edge cases where using WSS is preferred over SB16. One example is Aladdin which offers stereo music in SBPro and WSS mode, but only mono in SB16 mode. Cloudschatze kindly made a fix …

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Re: Guide: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2)

Posted on 2022-08-18, 15:27

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Can you be more specific as to what the problems are for these games? I would like to familiarize myself with the problem use case. What would I look for, specifically? Is it digital sound, Redbook audio, Adlib, etc. Quake, WarCraft and WarCraft 2 - digital audio crackles and cuts off occasionally. …

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Re: Guide: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2)

Posted on 2022-08-18, 15:10

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Can you provide a short list of games that have problems with legacy emulation on the PCI Sound Blasters (I assume they are all the same)? I don't have a comprehensive list, just a few games that I tested myself. It's not the same with all PCI sound cards since they use different methods for …

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Re: Guide: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2)

Posted on 2022-08-18, 14:05

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by Joseph_Joestar

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That is a good question, I haven't tried it with just the first SB16 emulation, I will try later today to remove the one with a yellow bang and see what happens. Thanks, let us know how it turns out. BTW, the step with adding a second SB16 device is only necessary on Audigy2 and ZS cards. The …

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Re: Guide: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2)

Posted on 2022-08-18, 04:55

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by Joseph_Joestar

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I can confirm that it works with the Dell's Audigy 2 ZS ( 3 white labels on the back and serial number containing SB358...), I didn't have to do anything different from the guide. Cheers! I wasn't sure that it would, since the OEM version of the ZS is supposedly slightly different. Nice to have …

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Re: Athlon64 3400+ / Asus K8V-MX / 5900XT / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-18, 04:52

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Joseph, how did you know the motherboard has VT8237R Plus southbridge? The manual speaks only of VT8237R and so does the text on the chip, at least on the image I googled. It's written on the chip. Here's a close up pic: VT8237R_Plus.jpg Even the CPU-Z image you posted shows only VT8237. I don't …

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Re: Finally have a DOS sound setup that seems to cover just about all the bases, and actually works!

Posted on 2022-08-17, 06:34

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by Joseph_Joestar

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Never thought id get that Boca to play nice with itself let alone another card, but it does and like I said sounds excellent. Nice setup! I'm using something similar in my Pentium MMX rig. And yeah, OPTi cards are underrated. They have decent SBPro compatibility, WSS mode for 16-bit audio, genuine …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! (SB0220): Windows 2000 drivers

Posted on 2022-08-17, 05:31

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by Joseph_Joestar

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C0deHunter wrote on 2022-08-16, 23:03: I wanted to know if there is a "proper" driver for this OS for my Sound Blaster Live! (SB0220). Try this driver CD. Is this model considered OEM? Yes, it was usually sold by Dell. I think it used to be called "Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital" or something.

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy1

Posted on 2022-08-17, 00:30

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by Joseph_Joestar

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And BTW, great thread :). s754/AGP is my favourite platform. @Joseph_Joestar, are you using VIA southbridge SATA ports to run SSDs, or is there other controller ? Cheers! And yeah, just the VIA southbridge, no other controllers This works because my board uses the VT8237R Plus chip. That revision …

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Re: Sony PS3 game recommendations

Posted on 2022-08-17, 00:26

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by Joseph_Joestar

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The God of War Collection is a pretty good remaster of the first two games. You can also try God of War 3, but I would play that on the PS4 for improved performance. Also, CEO Kaz Hirai would be sad if you didn't try Ridge Racer 7, or fight some "historically accurate" giant enemy crabs in Genji 2. …

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Re: TEAC W552E Spin Level Adjustment | MS-DOS6.22

Posted on 2022-08-16, 17:51

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by Joseph_Joestar

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it could very well mean that I got lucky with the drives and they did not reset their speeds on tray open/close That could be it. Every drive that I have forgets settings after the tray is opened. For that reason, I made a custom BAT file which calls CDBeQuiet! as needed, and I run that every time …

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Re: TEAC W552E Spin Level Adjustment | MS-DOS6.22

Posted on 2022-08-16, 16:23

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by Joseph_Joestar

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CDBeQuiet is not working perfectly. It needs a CD-Rom inserted first, if not it won´t be active. At least from my experience. That's normal. You aren't supposed to put CDBeQuiet! into AUTOEXEC.BAT. Instead, start it after inserting the CD. That said, with a Teac drive, you should be able to use its …

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