You could try the generic creative dos drivers, which can be found here.
http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=49&menustate=0

By default it lives in c:\dossrv so will not interfere with the VIA drivers if we need to go back to them.
Typically you would load
C:\DOSDRV\SBLOAD.exe
C:\DOSDRV\SBINIT.COM

but you also have a few other exe's to play around and test with.

Re the HDD folder issue. Thats very typical behaviour if the drive geometry isn't correct
The first section of the drive more or less lines up but as the drive fills up the further out of alignment the drive becomes, and you get corrupted data.
Makes sense given 98/Fat32 doesn't really like such large drives.
Personally I'd just play it safe and create smaller partitions like you did on the other drive

You could try the generic creative dos drivers, which can be found here.
http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=49&menustate=0

Thank you very much! I'll be back home on friday and then I'll test the drivers you mentioned from your link. I suspect they are similar to the one I have downloaded for my motherboard from retro web named "Creative AudioPCI ES137x VXD driver" (ensoniq.zip). This package includes the same filenames you mentioned. I tried them already, but I got an error, but I can't remember the message - and I think that I only tried them in Windows 98 DOS mode.

My plan is a more stratigic approach now:

1. copy files from 68mu220a.zip, 68mu220b.zip, viafmtsr, ensoniq.zip, and the generic drivers from your link to seperate folder on my c drive together with the 3 dos games Commander Keen 4, Sam and Max, and Star Control 2
2. unplug the SIL3114 PCI-Card
3. disable COM1, COM2, and parallel port in BIOS
4. use the reserved for legacy service option in the PCI/PNP IRQ resourse exlusion menue
for IRQ 5, DMA 1, and IRQ 10 (you have some additional suggestions?) I suspect to deal with the UMB resources is not necessary?
5. Boot with Windows 98 Start Disk
6. Start one driver package manually and test it with the games
7. after failure switch of PC, boot again and try with different driver package
8. after a success i adept the autoexec.bat on my boot disk with the working drivers and plug in the SIL card and hopefully Windows 98 still works - I have no need for COM or Parallel ports, so I'll let them switched off anyway

Re the HDD folder issue. Thats very typical behaviour if the drive geometry isn't correct The first section of the drive more or […]
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Re the HDD folder issue. Thats very typical behaviour if the drive geometry isn't correct
The first section of the drive more or less lines up but as the drive fills up the further out of alignment the drive becomes, and you get corrupted data.
Makes sense given 98/Fat32 doesn't really like such large drives.
Personally I'd just play it safe and create smaller partitions like you did on the other drive

Yeah, that's also a very good explanation, I havn't thought of that because everything seems to work fine. But you are right FAT32 isn't made for 1 TB drives and I will make 9 < 128 GB logical drives

I've used this drive as installation path for my Windows games (ca. 40 at the moment) and also played ca. 90% of them for 10-15 min. A few are not working, because they don't recognize the disc in the virtual cd drive and I havn't found a nocd crack yet, and 2-3 just don't start - nothing happens after doubleclick.

Only Settlers 2 crashed whenever I tried it, doesn't know if it crashed because of the wrong sound configuration or an already corrupted disk. Maybe 4-5 times I tried it and always ended with a hard reset - maybe this resets corrupted the disk.

=> After fixing the sound issues I will remove the Settlers 2 folder, and make a disk analysis with Partition Magic and look if it finds something....

chinny22 wrote on 2024-03-26, 00:35:

You could try the generic creative dos drivers, which can be found here. http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=49&menustat […]
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You could try the generic creative dos drivers, which can be found here.
http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=49&menustate=0

By default it lives in c:\dossrv so will not interfere with the VIA drivers if we need to go back to them.
Typically you would load
C:\DOSDRV\SBLOAD.exe
C:\DOSDRV\SBINIT.COM

but you also have a few other exe's to play around and test with.

Re the HDD folder issue. Thats very typical behaviour if the drive geometry isn't correct
The first section of the drive more or less lines up but as the drive fills up the further out of alignment the drive becomes, and you get corrupted data.
Makes sense given 98/Fat32 doesn't really like such large drives.
Personally I'd just play it safe and create smaller partitions like you did on the other drive

I have tried a lot of combinations, but still silence....

For the generic creative dos drivers:

Viaudio + Viafmtsr:
Viaudio shows: Install .... Successfully
Viafmtsr:
(*) sometimes crashes
(*) sometimes shows an overflow error
(*) sometimes looks like to succeed, but still no working sound

I have tried the tool from VIASBCFG - VIA SBPro configuration tool for VIA VT8231 & VT82C686/A/B chipsets (v0.12d) and the output is as follows:

But there is still no sound. Maybe somebody has an idea what else I can try. Thank you very much!

Best regards!