I have a small laptop with Coppermine Celeron and ESS Maestro 2E (ES1978) sound card. I installed VXD drivers and I can play games with sound and adlib music in dos games ran under Win98SE. It has OPL3 emulation, unfortunately it's a poor one; problems are starting when there is too much polyphony, music is messed up. I noticed that two files with 2MB and 4MB sound banks were installed with the drivers, so it probably has wavetable emulation.

I would like to use GM wavetable emulation instead of OPL3 emulation if it's possible. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to set it up, so it would be nice if someone could help me. I have never used any type of GM or MPU401 / MT32/ softmpu / soundfont etc stuff in DOS games and I don't know where to start. I hope that someone with Maestro 2E sound card can confirm if it is possible to use the wavetable. I launched Sim City 2000 setup utility, and after I selected MPU401 option a BSOD with critical exception appeared, then I got information that MPU401 was detected, but the system is messed up and unstable after that.