First post, by Kahenraz
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- l33t
I have an HP thin client with some kind of onboard AC97 sound card. Ironically, there are already native drivers available for DOS which work fine for both sound effects and Adlib FM. The problem I'm having is that there are no "legacy" sound card drivers for Windows 98, similar to other cards such as Aureal and Creative.
When launching a game in Windows 98, I found that sound effects appear to work (I only tested this in Duke Nukem 3D), but there is no FM. FM works fine in DOS, but there doesn't seem to be any way to get it working from within Windows. I tried booting to DOS first, starting the FM TSR, then starting Windows, but the FM was gone after it started up.
Is there any way to get FM on these integrated VIA AC97 sound cards from within Windows 98? It seems very odd to me that they would take the time to get Adlib and Sound Blaster compatible with DOS but not extend this feature to Windows.