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First post, by PoulpSquad

Posted on 2016-11-03, 18:39

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Hello,

Today I've been trying to install a Sound Blaster AWE32 (CT3980), and I'm having trouble with CSP.SYS.
I downloaded the DOS drivers from Creative Labs, and I noticed a driver I never used before (Advanced Signal Processing upgrade (CSP.SYS v1.13)).
I wanted to give it a go out of curiosity, as I understand it's only used for Q-Sound software and only a handful exist.

I installed it, it modified my CONFIG.SYS, but when I restarted, it threw an error - COULD NOT DETECT THE CSP.
DIAGNOSE.EXE reports DSP version 4.13, and Advanced Signal Processor is detected.
It passes passes all the tests.

I suspect I'm mixing concepts, so I'm asking for help.
Any idea about what this CSP is and how to load the driver for it?

Here are my specs:

Pentium III Coppermine (1000/133/7.5 downclocked at 500/66/7.5)
DFI CA61 rev. B1
2x MT 256 MB ECC @ 133 MHz (downclocked at 66 Mhz)
Hercules Terminator 128/3D "GLH"
2x Voodoo 2 STB Black Magic 12 MB in SLI
Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3980 with 2x16 MB SIMM
Gravis UltraSound classic
Roland MPU-401AT
Western Digital Caviar SE 160 GB (primary master)
Sony ATAPI CD-ROM (primary slave)

Thanks a lot for any help!

Regards,

PoulpSquad

Reply 1 of 9, by mrau

Posted on 2016-11-03, 19:29

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http://comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg.narkive.com/ … ng-sb16-for-dos

Reply 2 of 9, by PoulpSquad

Posted on 2016-11-03, 19:42

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Thank you mrau for your tip.
Regrettably this didn't help.

CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=C:\CTCM\CTCM.EXE
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\XMGR.SYS /N128
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\UMBPCI.SYS /I=C800-DFFF
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE ON 16384 FRAME=E000 B=1000 A=254 H=255 D=256 NOMOVEXBDA
DEVICEHIGH=C:\SB16\DRV\CSP.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220
DEVICEHIGH=C:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:7 D:1 H:5
DEVICEHIGH=C:\SB16\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS

AUTOEXEC.BAT:

@ECHO OFF
SET SOUND=C:\SB16
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
SET CTCM=C:\CTCM
C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE.EXE /S
C:\SB16\AWEUTIL.COM /S
C:\SB16\MIXERSET.EXE /P /Q

I get sound in DIAGNOSE.EXE and games. Windows 98 picks up the card fine.
Low-level drivers load ok in upper memory.

Only CSP.SYS refuses to load...

Reply 3 of 9, by mrau

Posted on 2016-11-03, 20:06

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im not sure if You read all there was on that site, but there is older asp and newer csp drivers - csp will not work with every sb16 if i understand correctly

Reply 4 of 9, by PoulpSquad

Posted on 2016-11-03, 20:12

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It should work... the driver is listed on Creative Labs. as an AWE32 driver.
The link you sent me states CSP.SYS is for AWE32 and SB16.
What's ASP.SYS for? Older SB16? Did SB Pros have DSP/ASP/CSP?
I assumed that's the one I need. I am going to try ASP.SYS once I can find it.

Reply 5 of 9, by mrau

Posted on 2016-11-03, 20:15

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there were sb16 that supported csp, but i think not all of them; im not sure how to test, maybe google your exact model number and "csp"?

one more thing: you did read what kind of functionality this gives? i think this is useless for games

Reply 6 of 9, by Cloudschatze

Posted on 2016-11-03, 21:10

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PoulpSquad wrote:
Today I've been trying to install a Sound Blaster AWE32 (CT3980), and I'm having trouble with CSP.SYS.

You'll need to use the v1.14 CSP.SYS driver with the CT3980, attached below as "CSP.TXT."

Filename: CSP.TXT
File size: 9.69 KiB
Downloads: 845 downloads
File license: Fair use/fair dealing exception

Reply 7 of 9, by PoulpSquad

Posted on 2016-11-03, 21:21

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Indeed. This did the trick, works great now.

Thanks a lot for your help Cloudschatze and mrau!

Reply 8 of 9, by PoulpSquad

Posted on 2016-11-04, 09:31

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Apparently I had that file all along, since it comes with the official Creative drivers in SBBASIC.EXE.
Extracting that archive and installing on DOS never quite worked for me.
It makes a SB16\DRV folder with low-level drivers, but I never saw a CSP.SYS in there!

I'm wondering if there is a way to extract .PVL files directly without using the installer routine?

Thanks!

Reply 9 of 9, by Gahhhrrrlic

Posted on 2021-12-27, 22:40

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Is the 2290 any different? I just got my ASP chip, installed it, the diagnose tool says detected, I installed the CSP files, rebooted and tried to load the QSDemo and it said low level driver error. Then I put CSP v1.14 attached above and there's no difference in behaviour. What am I doing wrong?

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