First post, by andre_6
Hello everyone, I recently discovered that my Sound Blaster Live! 4830's drivers whether .wdm or .vxd always keep my Win98SE from rebooting, hanging at the restart screen, making me force the restart from the front panel's button. I tried different driver versions for that card but it's something between it and Win98 SE specifically.
While it's not that big of a deal, it stops me from being able to restart in MS-DOS mode. I installed this, so I could have the option directly from boot: https://github.com/fonic/windows-98-se-dos-mode
It worked, and I had correct address, IRQ and DMA for my .vxd SB16 emulation drivers already attributed in all games and confirmed working through Windows as I always did before this. However while testing them in DOS mode I noticed that I always have a conflicting IRQ in the games' setups or executables when running them in pure DOS, even though the exact same correct configs work through Windows' Dos Box with no problem at all.
What could be the problem here? Something to do with the new autoexec.bat and config.sys that the program I installed overlaps? It kept .bak files of the older ones just in case. Is there really a conflict here? Thanks for your help
Edit: games tested just in case - Redneck Rampage, Blood, Rise Of The Triad...