Further updates - I went back to a DOS 6.22 install to play around with what was working, and I find that I get sound when starting Wolfenstein 3D, but then it will malfunction at some point.

I tried to shoot something - the game froze, I think the gun sound effect did it.

I restarted, tried again, was able to shoot and got the sound effect, but then the music froze, and the next time I tried to shoot....froze again.

Any ideas?

JonnyGators wrote on 2020-11-01, 19:23:

Installing that driver with the provided instructions - copying the folder and adding lines to the autoexec.bat file, results in errors at boot about needing EMM386. It would be nice if instructions about setting this up could be added to the install instructions for the driver, this would prevent one from following the instructions only to be met with an error and needing to chase down a solution, and would make for a more complete installation package.

Are you expecting instructions targeting users interested in using the driver with MS-DOS 5.0 because they want to run Windows 1?

DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMC
DOS=HIGH,UMB

I assume you meant "NOEMS" there.

So....I'm kinda stuck there. Any suggestions on how to get this driver to work in DOS 5.0?

It is entirely possible that the driver simply will not work with the DOS 5.0 version of EMM386. You can try an alternative, like JEMM386, but be advised it is completely incompatible with Windows.

If you insist on having MS-DOS 5.0 around so you can gawk at Windows 1.0 for ten minutes, I suggest using a boot floppy.

ETA: I should probably add:

JonnyGators wrote on 2020-11-01, 19:23:

I've found later Pentium 4 processors can run Windows 10.

The DOS drivers for PCI sound cards tend to require motherboard features that may not be present on Pentium 4 motherboards. The precise details are unfortunately rather nebulous. Usually on such machines it is better to run DOS games from an MS-DOS prompt after booting Win9x.

I've been trying to setup a machine that can run Windows 1 to 10 with the most amount of capability because.....why not?

Because it serves no real purpose and you will undoubtedly encounter a great deal of frustration and incomplete documentation that you will have to puzzle out on your own.

Creative PCI sound cards are a hit or miss on newer boards as they have more requirements than other PCI sound cards. The newest motherboard I ever managed to get a Creative sound card working (SBLive in my case) was an i815EP-based board (Biostar M6TSU). For newer boards, either the TSR refused to load or that if it did load, legacy audio did not function properly.

This post by RayeR might be relevant. Since you're using a P5P800 (865PE), and you could manage to get some SFX output, your board might not be having the SERR#-to-NMI issue, but the board might be subject to other issues that made legacy emulation not working properly (see this, which was referenced in the aforementioned post).

Also, I recall you can't use NOEMS for those cards (they seem to make use of EMS for loading MIDI samples and such)... so given the typo NOEMC you're not really specifying NOEMS so EMM386 is loaded with EMS enabled, which is why the TSR could be loaded in your case.