First post, by Neodeus
Hello,
I have recently built a 386, and I have been trying to get it going. Most of the sound cards I have are PNP and will not work in this computer. I do have an Aztech MMSN810 (Galaxy BAS 16 I believe). I installed it's drivers, changed it's resources, and for the most part it seems to be working. I have run in to an odd issue with games I have tested. Adlib music seems to play normally, some sound effects seem to play normally, other effects do not play at all, or seem to be at very low volume.
Here are some examples -
Wolf 3D - Music works, simple sound effects like picking up some treasure / menu selection / menu confirmation all work. What does not seem to work are the digital effects(?). I call them that, because I am not sure what they should be called. The enemy barks, gun sounds, door sounds, all seem to have issues. If you listen very close you can kind of hear them at super low volume.
Duke Nukem 2 - This seems OK? I am not sure if the same applies for this game, but all sound effects seemed to be OK.
XCOM UFO - Music works, no sound effects. Clicking on menu items and such produce no sound. Have tried setting to sound blaster / sound blaster pro / sb16, game launches, but no effects.
I have tried to use the volume setting program to load factory defaults. That did not seem to help.
Does anyone have any ideas what this could be? Sound card bad? Setting I'm missing? Just so happened to try games that have compat issues with this card?
Thanks in advance for any insight.
-Albert