Live! cards are often incompatible with Via Apollo chipsets, at the PCI level. Try an actual Audigy2 with Audigy1 drivers.

kolderman wrote on 2021-03-12, 17:56:

Live! cards are often incompatible with Via Apollo chipsets, at the PCI level. Try an actual Audigy2 with Audigy1 drivers.

Thank you!

I have changed irq setting on the SB16 emulation device (device manager) to 7 because irq5 seems to be used by the Via chipset for some purpose. I´ve heard about the difficulties with the Live! and Via Apollo, yes.
But the spare sounds cards I have around are those Live!.
I tried a ISA ALS-120 sound card which is easy to install (both Windows and DOS) and works ok (both Windows and DOS) but it lacks "general midi" sound. Not very period correct either, I belive it belongs to the 486 era.
I also own an Audician 32 (with Yamaha Opl chipset), but I like it and i´d rather keep it,this system is intended to be given away to a friend on his birthday...

Yesterday I decided using two cards at the same time, the PCI Live! for Windows games and the ISA ALS-120 for DOS ones (most I´ve tried play ok). Unfortunately the ALS-120 doesn´t produce sound in Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, which is kinda a must...

Phil's video is based on my guide: Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Sound Blaster Live! cards (version 3.1)

There shouldn't be anything special that you need to do to get the card working in pure DOS if you follow all the steps correctly. Assuming there isn't a hardware issue or a resource conflict of course.

Note that loading soundfonts is not possible in pure DOS. However, you will still get General MIDI functionality through ECW sets.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2021-03-12, 19:15:

Phil's video is based on my guide: Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Sound Blaster Live! cards (version 3.1)

There shouldn't be anything special that you need to do to get the card working in pure DOS if you follow all the steps correctly. Assuming there isn't a hardware issue or a resource conflict of course.

Note that loading soundfonts is not possible in pure DOS. However, you will still get General MIDI functionality through ECW sets.

Thank you!
Yes, he says in the beggining of the video he based it on your guide.
In his video he only shows how to do the install within Windows (even the Dos driver).
He doesn´t go pure DOS to do any configuration/tweaking or showing how games do sound in pure DOS (he does show games sounding in Windows DOS mode, only).

So, I get, from first hand (you), tthat one should not do anything within pure DOS to configure the card. Games would just sound when loaded without any previous command, right?
Thank you very much for your kind help!

Con 2 botones wrote on 2021-03-12, 20:51:

So, I get, from first hand (you), tthat one should not do anything within pure DOS to configure the card. Games would just sound when loaded without any previous command, right?

That's right.

If everything is correctly installed, you should have sound in pure DOS by simply clicking Start > Shutdown > Restart in MS-DOS mode.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2021-03-12, 21:13:

Con 2 botones wrote on 2021-03-12, 20:51:

So, I get, from first hand (you), tthat one should not do anything within pure DOS to configure the card. Games would just sound when loaded without any previous command, right?

That's right.

If everything is correctly installed, you should have sound in pure DOS by simply clicking Start > Shutdown > Restart in MS-DOS mode.

Unfortunately it is not my case.
When I try to launch Doom, for instance the system reboots.
When I launch "SBEGO.exe" (inside the DOS driver folder) and start the test, I get the following message: "Error: Is SB Emulation Enabled??? ..."
In Windows, I do have an entry in device manager named "Creative SB16 Emulation", no conflicts, interrupt request 5 is assigned. Most DOS games tested uner Windows sound properly.
In BIOS, I disabled the "PNP OS Installed" feature. IRQ Resources are "manual" and I reserved IRQ 5 and 7 to "legacy ISA", as well as DMA 1 and 5.

What I find weird, is that the part that reads "PCIPort" and "PCI IRQ" in the Ctsyn.ini file, those two values are "0". I´ve tried changing them to "DC00" and "5" respectively, nothing improves. When I restart the system those values in Ctsyn.ini go back to "0"...

Can someone who successfully got the CT 4830 working under DOS share the Autoexec.bat, Config.sys and Ctsyn.ini values?

Thanks again!

Sorry for the bump, but it seems I have the same trouble with my CT 4830 soundcard. Any solution so far anyone achieved for this post?
(Sound in Pure DOS, not 'Restart to DOS')
Thanks.