I'm not sure, but it's possible that the SB Live DOS drivers emulate the SBPro and not the SB16. Did you try selecting the Ensoniq Soundscape instead of SB16 in the DOS games you are running? You also might try installing VDMSound in WinXP and running the games from inside WinXP - you'll get nice sound and music emulation.

I'm fairly certain that the SBLive! drivers did only emulate the 8-bit DMA, which is unfortunate, to be certain, but I think that might be something you have to live with. Of course I've been wrong before, so perhaps not. Hi-DMA should be "5"... pretty much always.

How do youy use this file dos 2000?
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Huh?

gatticus wrote:

How do youy use this file dos 2000?
Thanks

It has files on to make a boot disk with mouse, CDRom and SBLive support.

The poster asked if we could solve his 16-bit DMA problem.

Not sure what the confusion is...

Originally posted by EnyGmaTiK Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Windows XP SP1 […]
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Originally posted by EnyGmaTiK Soundblaster Live! 5.1
Windows XP SP1

I can play all games flawlessly. i only have 1 issue, i can only set my sound options to 8 bits, in 16 it gaves me an error about wrong 16-bit DMA...

I'm certain that there was SB16 emulation within Windows, but that when running in "true" DOS, I think it only emulates 8-bit sound cards. Can't confirm because I no longer have the card.

http://up.clanhosted.com/stuff/dos2000.zip

The Live card "DOS" drivers were only meant to be run in the "true" DOS mode of Win9x, so I'm surprised it would work at all with any other form of DOS.

gatticus wrote:

How do youy use this file dos 2000?
Thanks

unzip the folder DOS to the root of the drive u are using.. must be in FAT, and then with a boot disk, which is also supplied in the zip [it's an image which can be converted with Win Image] boot the system.

Snover: I tried 5 for hi-dma... didn't work... matter of fact, i tried all the available options [5 - 7 - 9?] none work 🙁

'You also might try installing VDMSound in WinXP and running the games from inside WinXP - you'll get nice sound and music emulation.'

No it doesn't try to run SW or Duke3d and so many more... and you i'll see 😉

Nicht Sehr Gut wrote:

I'm certain that there was SB16 emulation within Windows, but that when running in "true" DOS, I think it only emulates 8-bit video cards. Can't confirm because I no longer have the card.

The Live card "DOS" drivers were only meant to be run in the "true" DOS mode of Win9x, so I'm surprised it would work at all with any other form of DOS.

actually it gave me an IRQ error ... conflict between the IRQ of the sound card with the PCI IRQ, so i just switched the IRQ 9 (which is from the soundcard) manually.

Originally posted by EnyGmaTiK No it doesn't try to run SW or Duke3d and so many more... and you i'll see

Yes those are Problem Children for 2000 and XP. Fortunately, Duke already has experimental Win32 ports (and should be pretty stable soon).

yes i know... i just ran one, very nice 😁

Originally posted by EnyGmaTiK yes i know... i just ran one, very nice

Just understand that they are only in the earliest stages. Most Duke ports still have some serious bugs, and we may not ever see a "Shadow Warrior" port unless someone adds on the "unique" features (like "room-over-room" support) that "Shadow Warrior" needs to function.

Did you try selecting Ensoniq Soundscape instead of SB16 in those DOS games? I might be remembering wrong, but you might be able to get 16-bit sound that way.