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PCI sound cards and DOS never get along anyway.

Yes,but what do I do now?Is there anyway to emulate a Soundblaster in DOS?

leileilol wrote:

PCI sound cards and DOS never get along anyway.

Actually, there are PCI sound cards that work on DOS. Alas, many of them require EMM386, which is incompatible with Ultima 7. Maybe your best best is YMF-724 or Aureal Vortex 2. Or maybe you wanna' try UMBPCI.

I have a soundblaster Live somewhere.Will it do the job?

Will it do the job?

Only so far as Kreshna pointed out. It requires EMS for its drivers (and you NEED to load the drivers for sound - unlike some old SB cards) and some games do not work with EMS (even if you use UMBPCI).

Well then I guess I'll use it only for Windows games and the other one for DOS

F2bnp wrote:

I have a soundblaster Live somewhere.Will it do the job?

It has horrible support via a TSR though. In most games (like Sierra games) you will not get PCM sound. At all. Plus its provided FM emulation sounds horrible and is slow.

Then I'll stick with the Soundblaster 16 ;D

leileilol wrote:

It has horrible support via a TSR though. In most games (like Sierra games) you will not get PCM sound. At all. Plus its provided FM emulation sounds horrible and is slow.

Have you found this to be the case with all models of SoundBlaster Live? My Live 5.1 behaves quite nicely.

Then I'll stick with the Soundblaster 16

huh, did I misread it completely? I thought you don't have an ISA slot?

Yes but I do have another PC which I will use for DOS with a SB16.Duh I didn't write it right before sorry.
So here is another problem:

I installed directX 9c for Windows 98.

Morrowind runs OK
No one lives forever doesn't have any textures on the characters and the backgrounds just have RANDOM textures which randomly change!
Fifa 2002 doesn't run at all it just kicks me out in the desktop
Half Life runs REALLY REALLY slow on D3D and on Software mode it's like crap.I just uses some random color pallette or that's what I think.

HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

Jorpho wrote:

leileilol wrote:

It has horrible support via a TSR though. In most games (like Sierra games) you will not get PCM sound. At all. Plus its provided FM emulation sounds horrible and is slow.

Have you found this to be the case with all models of SoundBlaster Live? My Live 5.1 behaves quite nicely.

My Live! 5.1 did what I described and also the earlier Live! Value i had before that was like that as well

F2bnp wrote:

Morrowind runs OK No one lives forever doesn't have any textures on the characters and the backgrounds just have RANDOM textures […]
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Morrowind runs OK
No one lives forever doesn't have any textures on the characters and the backgrounds just have RANDOM textures which randomly change!
Fifa 2002 doesn't run at all it just kicks me out in the desktop
Half Life runs REALLY REALLY slow on D3D and on Software mode it's like crap.I just uses some random color pallette or that's what I think.

HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

Rage cards aren't really all that hot as the PR said. You might want to get a different video card.

I had it replaced with a Geforce 2 MX 400 with 64 mb ram.Isn't that enough for games like these?

Yes.

Are you even paying attention to what I write?
I've got this system:

P4 1.5 GHz
256 RAM
GeForce 2 MX 400 with 64 MB RAM

The problems I wrote above occure with THIS system not with the Rage 128 PRO Ultra.Besides Morrowind would not even play with a 16 mb ram card.

Morrowind eats up CPU like nothing else. You don't get that game to be really fast until you get like an Athlon 64 or better behind it.

Well, I don't mean to say that a TNT is adequate. Something like a Radeon 9700 is good enough to max out the 3D rendering portion of Morrowind though.

Yes but I don't have any problems with Morrowind.
Today I tried:

Sin
Quake 2 demo
Crusaders of Might&Magic
Revenant
System Shock 2

They all worked fine except System Shock 2 which kicks me to the desktop

F2bnp wrote:

Are you even paying attention to what I write?
I've got this system:

yes, and you didn't make things clear to use when you switched the video card. Stop throwing us off , be straight and maybe your issues will be solved. 🙄

Try using older forceware, like 66.xx