A new game, a new issue unfortunately.
It was mentioned before that some games, like Lands of Lore, keep resetting the Volume Mixer.
While the ESS sounds perfectly fine if its started with a Volume of like 20% or so, if set to 100% it results in some very ugly "reverb" type of distortion.
Even if you lower the volume within the game, it will stay distorted. And if you quit the game, you might "keep" some hanging note.
Here is an example of Lands of Lore:
https://youtu.be/Rtt8MzAwO48
Ignore the garbled graphics during the last sections of the video. This is because of the Datapath and the issue to automatically switch recording between 720x400 and 320x200. The hanging sound there is real though.
Lands of Lore seems to reset the mixer as soon as you run the intro (and possibly by other means). If you load up a savegame right away, it will sound fine. Until of course at some point you run into a reset (I am not sure when exactly these will happen after the intro).
I also tried the UNISOUND driver instead of the ESS one. But it results in exactly the same issue.
I saw in a previous comment that resetting the Mixer is not an issue by the card, but just something Lands of Lore does.
But I am wondering whether that "hanging" on the higher volumes is common for ESS Cards (in Lands of Lore for example), whether there is anything you can do to fight it, or if my card is just broken.
The Capacitors look fine though:
https://youtu.be/-R3alFff6aI