Before reboot?
If yes, I'm out of ideas

After reboot, as part of dosstart.bat.

One more thing. The sb emulation also runs from config.sys or autoexec.bat during first boot, before going to win98. Is that how it should be?

Nicolas 2000 wrote on 2025-05-30, 09:45:

One more thing. The sb emulation also runs from config.sys or autoexec.bat during first boot, before going to win98. Is that how it should be?

Yes, that's the expected behavior.

Those lines get added automatically when Creative's DOS driver pack is installed.

In that case I think I do everything right. I don't want to reinstall things now, as it runs fine in W98 and all my games run from W98.

Problem solved after full clean reinstall of the pc.

Got my problem solved on an i865 mobo with an Audigy 2zs. Needed sata controllers and USB disabled. Thanks for your awesome setup guide.

I have to say the open source sbemu has better fm than creative. Official creative drivers remind me of the midi downgrade I noticed going from an awe64 to sb pci 128. In fact the wave table sets even have the same ecw extension as the pci 128.

sharangad wrote on Today, 16:19:

Got my problem solved on an i865 mobo with an Audigy 2zs. Needed sata controllers and USB disabled. Thanks for your awesome setup guide.

Cheers!

I have to say the open source sbemu has better fm than creative. Official creative drivers remind me of the midi downgrade I noticed going from an awe64 to sb pci 128. In fact the wave table sets even have the same ecw extension as the pci 128.

Yeah, pretty much anything sounds better than the FM synth emulation on SBLive/Audigy cards. Except for the SB128, which is somehow even worse. And yeah, I'm not a fan of those ECW sets for General MIDI music either. That's why I rarely use Audigy cards in pure DOS, as you can load any soundfont of your choosing under Win9x.