Hmmm, seems the install program doesn't change the sound.cfg file. I even tried it in NTVDM and it's the same behavior.

If I use the one from the install both are set to "Sound Blaster". If I try to change them and then go back into the install it's still "Sound Blaster".

If I delete sound.cfg and go back in it's set to "None", but if I change it and go back in it's still set to "None".

Sigh.

Can someone post the contents of their working sound.cfg here? I really don't feel like decoding sound.cfg since it seems to not ne very user friendly.

Here's the contents of my sound.cfg

0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 6 5 […]
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0 0
-1 -1 -1 -1
-1 -1 -1 -1
6 5

Did a little bit more playing around. Turns out the settings only apply if you set "Install with these options". If you don't then the settings don't apply. Pretty stupid terminology but oh well. I'm leaving this thread here as a monument to the stupidity of the both myself and the designers of the POS installer.

The above explains why some people had to use different IRQ settings......If they thought that they had to use IRQ 5 (Cause someone told them to) and they chose it in the installer and it "worked". Well...they didn't save their settings so Privateer simply used the original settings in it's sound.cfg.

This should be helpful info since I plan on getting rid of alot of useless Privateer info.

Yeah, we get a lot of posts about this error due to people using the HotU version, which has a bad sound config included.

You shouldn't have to disable EMS in CVS any more - I think a fix was implemented but you may want to verify.

You dont need to disable EMS anymore. When you quit the game and you have EMS enabled, it gives you a bunch of error messages, but since it only happens on quitting, who cares.

Privateer uses the VCPI interface when ems is disabled, that's why
it works now. But the crashes during exit are new to me, will try to
reproduce them (does it happen to somebody else as well?)

Cannot reproduce this. But when I want to run the Privateer installer after Privateer itself was run, it just says 'packed file is corrupt.'. Some other programs also have problem running after Privateer.

Well the VCPI host has to switch into v86 mode, and certain parts of
the games (most notably the Strike Commander installer) only work in
v86 mode, so the cpu won't run in real mode after exiting the game.

The v86 monitor is quite tricky, even emm386 didn't really have a
reliable one (remembering the GPFs...).