First post, by RYZINN
Hey all,
I built a retro rig sometime ago and went with a standard AWE64 ISA card. The card itself works flawlessly for most of my DOS games and a few CD games, however some games that rely for CD audio have issues. Mainly choppy, static sounds, (Simpsons virtual springfield, Beavis + butthead Virtual stupidity, Diablo, Star Wars Jedi Knight, Etc). The issue primarily occurs when dialogue is spoken in these games but it also seems to happen during in game cutscenes. Initially I thought maybe my disc drive was the culprit and have since swapped in multiple disc drives with various speeds (4x, 12x, 16x) only to have the same issue. The discs themselves are in pristine condition so it can't be that either.
My suspicion is that it may be the awe64 itself. the input that connects to the disc drive may be faulty? The drivers should be good, I'd assume, as pretty much all other sound and output from the card seems fine.
Anybody have experience with this? Should I try and buy another card? I have a spare SB16 I could swap in and see if the issue continues though I'd imagine I might have to remove the AWE64 drivers?