hey guys

just a little curious about something i noticed the other night.

I was having super difficult times getting my Audigy eX working in my w98 athlon xp machine and decided to move my Aureal 2 card (diamond monster sound) in to do it's job as I've got the correct drivers and know how to install it. The Aureal 2 installed with VXD drivers, I tested it and it worked fine. I then tried out something completely different in regards to the Audigy card. I have heard previously that SB Live driver can run the same emu chip, and after an attempt it has installed fine with a WDM driver pack.

Note that the Audigy card isn't actually hooked up to any audio cables so it's just sitting there for the moment.

So I was under the impression that WDM drivers can handle emulated CD audio via Daemon tools, and VXD is not going to work. This was the goal- use the Audigy for a few EAX titles here and there, using it for CD audio and then leaving the Aureal 2 for everything else. My plan was to make a little 3.5mm to 3.5mm cable to run the audigy into the line-in on the Aureal 2.

Last night I was testing an image of Half Life Opposing Force (mounted with Daemon tools), loaded it up to test out A3D... and then the ingame CD music started playing???? I checked that there wasn't another game cd in the drive, there was nothing. Are the WDM drivers installed for the Audigy (SB Live drivers) somehow enabling the Aureal 2 to run the cd audio? It's a real nice suprise but i dont get it. Another game I installed needed directx 9, could this be it?

Cheers