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Ct3900 - sb16 or awe32 drivers?

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First post, by Ahrle

Posted on 2026-07-02, 22:22

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Got drivers for ct3900 specifically (I think) from retroweb. A Windows installer with 6-8 floppies. There is no ctcm or diagnose however, and no drivers for ide cd-rom installation.

Currently at work so can't throw screenshots, but would be nice to have an idea when back home:
Do you use ordinary sb16 drivers for awe32, or are there specific drivers for awe32? Maybe this package is just an addon? 🤔

Hope I'm not too unclear 🫣

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Reply 1 of 3, by NeoG_

Posted on 2026-07-02, 23:24

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You can see a range of drivers here:
https://www.philscomputerlab.com/sound-blaster-awe-32.html

The drivers for AWE32 include the tools for managing the AWE wavetable, which the SB16 driver doesn't have

Last edited by NeoG_ on 2026-07-04, 13:57. Edited 1 time in total.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Dipshidian

Posted on 2026-07-04, 13:49

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The CT3900 falls under the early Windows 95 timeline and so, depending on what you want to use it for, you might as well just use whatever drivers Win95 throws at you. They will do just fine for DOS applications too, unless you’re doing something that requires a pure DOS environment (can’t run in a DOS box within Windows), I guess. Otherwise, you would use SB16 drivers for the digital audio + FM synth part and AWE32 drivers only for the wavetable synthesis/General MIDI stuff.

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Reply 3 of 3, by jesolo

Posted on 2026-07-04, 23:00

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Since the CT3900 is an AWE card, just use the latest AWE64 drivers with it.
You then get the latest version of Aweutil and all the other utilities.
Whenever I get an AWE card, I just use the drivers from my AWE64 installation CD.

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