Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2024-03-18, 13:11

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by Kordanor

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Many kinds of mixer related probelms can be fixed by using Midito (command line: Midito.com -lock). It can be downloaded from here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=83629 Thank you! Will need to do a bit of further testing, but I can tell already, that it works. However: It only works …

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2024-03-18, 12:20

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by Kordanor

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A new game, a new issue unfortunately. It was mentioned before that some games, like Lands of Lore, keep resetting the Volume Mixer. While the ESS sounds perfectly fine if its started with a Volume of like 20% or so, if set to 100% it results in some very ugly "reverb" type of distortion. Even if …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2024-03-17, 19:48

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Yeah, it's a niche in a niche, in a niche basically. Like the group of people using a datapath the same way we are, and has a interest to even use custom software, must be extremely small (maybe 100 people or so?), but then having an overlap with programmers who are actually familiar with that stuff …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2024-02-02, 14:16

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by Kordanor

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Personally I wouldn't care for 1600x1200 and 1280x960 too much. Running games on these resolution you will be able to use DVI anyways. So at that point its purely about scaling (not capturing). Ofc it's still a shame if you want to use these for upscaling to your 4k screen and applying filters. But …

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Re: "Miles" Sound Updates

Posted on 2024-02-01, 23:43

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But the issue is, that the new setsound.exe does not update the sound.cfg of the game. So when I start the game, it will still use whatever was saved there. I guess it will use the other new files now. But unfortunately it makes no difference in how it sounds. That is true for both setups. You got …

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2024-01-31, 21:10

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by Kordanor

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The sound program allows to load a custom driver for their "AIL 3.0 SoundStream". Anyone ever used that? Try using that to load AUDIODRV.DIG that I've attached here . It should be placed inside the folder where the game keeps the other .DIG files. Might not work, but if it does, it should give you …

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Re: "Miles" Sound Updates

Posted on 2024-01-31, 18:12

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I tried to solve an issue with Jagged Alliance Deadly games using these drivers, but I am not quite sure, whether handling was correct. However as DosFreak specifically mentioned Deadly Games I guess it should work. So what I am using is: Running on DOS: Using ESS 1868 Soundcard Running on WIN98: …

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2024-01-31, 16:33

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by Kordanor

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I am also using an ES 1868 and stumbled over one issue with Jagged Alliance Deadly games in pure DOS: Using it as Soundblaster Pro, the Sound Effects are fine (like button click noises), but the Voices in the game sound bad (very harsh and clipped S, much like what you expect from radio …

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Re: Bios Update, but how do I identify which one I got?

Posted on 2024-01-22, 15:54

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by Kordanor

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Alright! Thanks a lot for the clarification! 😀

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Re: Bios Update, but how do I identify which one I got?

Posted on 2024-01-22, 09:34

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by Kordanor

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Hi Kordanor, Checking which flashchip and BIOS size you have, can simply be done with a flash tool like Awdflash.exe. If you don’t have the flasher for this 5ALI61 board, you can use Awdflash v7.95. This flasher works fine here on any non-Asus socket 7 board with an Award BIOS. You can download …

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Re: Games that don't run properly on faster CPUs

Posted on 2024-01-16, 20:41

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by Kordanor

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I am not sure if the list is still being updated. Tested some new games, and various games from the list. Several of these had no or other issues: New games with issues: Hanse Die Expedition: Installation gives Error 200 on 500Mhz or more, no issues with that on game. Issue if game runs too fast: …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-01-16, 12:54

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by Kordanor

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@Kordanor I'm sorry but I'm afraid there is little help I could offer beyond what had already been suggested. In your case the required hardware is either not present or not enabled, and CPUSPD can't do anything without that piece of hardware (PMU). From what I recalled the early ALi chipsets were …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-01-15, 19:03

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by Kordanor

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@kalohimal not sure if you saw my last post. Could you clarify what you exactly you meant with the command? Can you post the exact full command I need to enter?

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-01-11, 20:34

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by Kordanor

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From the debug info, the ACPI tables are present but Throttle port address at 4010h doesn't look right. But in your case the first hurdle is to enable the PMU, which means that device 10B9:7101 must be present in the PCI device scan, otherwise it won't work because the required hardware is not …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-01-10, 21:28

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by Kordanor

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And the other pages:

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-01-10, 21:27

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by Kordanor

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Yeah, M1541 M1542 are similar and shared the same datasheet. From the picture, there is also an M1543 on the motherboard which does have a PMU. The M1543 reported itself in the device detection as 1533. I checked the M1543 datasheet and it's PMU should have a device id of 10B9:7101, which did not …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-01-10, 13:20

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by Kordanor

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If i see it correctly, it's an M1542 A1. I guess the same applies there? BTW I updated the BIOS using info here: Bios Update, but how do I identify which one I got? not sure if that matters in this case.

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-01-10, 09:49

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by Kordanor

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Your problem might be similar to kikendo (see page 6), in that the ALi chipset was a very early version which has no throttle function (they are problematic because the chipsets were made during the very early days of ACPI, and the preliminary datasheet found on the internet doesn't match with the …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-01-09, 23:16

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by Kordanor

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I tested it now with ACPI on, and while it does not give an error anymore and it does save the setting (if you run cpuspd a), it does not seem to have any impact. I set the throttle down to 1, it will then show its set to 1/8 on 3DBench V1.0 it has no impact. then to be sure I rebooted again, also …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win9X Retro Gaming

Posted on 2024-01-09, 09:04

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by Kordanor

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The manual https://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=674 states ACPI setting is in the "Power Management Setup" menu. The program mentiones that ACPI is disabled. Don't see any option in my BIOS. I am using an ASCORP 5ali61, in the manual it lists the AMD K6 III+ which was released in 2000. …

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