First post, by teiresias
I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but since this is exclusively an audio issue I'm having I figured here would be good.
I have an Aureal Vortex 2 in a Win98 machine (440BX, P3-600Mhz) with the unofficial SP3 installed.
I've had few issues with the Vortex2 and older games so far (aside from my inability to get the wavetable header to be audible - which is a problem for another day). With KQ5 I can run in a DOS prompt or in DOS Mode and get SB support fine, but in KQ6 I'm trying to play in DOS prompt specifically since the internal wavetable doesn't work in DOS mode. However, I have two issues, when I start the game I get a "Could Not Initialize Your Sound Hardware" prompt, which must be referring to the soundlbaster side of things for digital speech in the opening movie, but then also when I get in game the midi mapping is all screwed up on the wavetable MIDI and I get the wrong instruments.
I don't have the midi mapping issues in anything else (notably I've been playing Star Trek:Judgment Rights which works fine with the internal wavetable).
I'm assuming there's something wonky with the Sierra GENMID.drv driver, but I can't find anything doing a google search. Does anyone have any ideas on this one?