First post, by bjt
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I recently bought a CT3980 (AWE32 Plug n Play) and have a few issues with it, I was wondering if any other CT3980 owners had seen these.
This card replaces an AWE64 which was working 100% with the same resource settings in the same machine, so I can rule out any conflicts with other hardware.
I believe this is the first PnP AWE32. CTCM says it has initialised the card correctly, but there are two signs that things aren't working 100%:
- In CTCU, the resources check fails for both IRQ and DMA.
- In diagnose.exe, assigning the IRQ and DMA fails.
Despite this, the card seems to work (outputs digital sound, FM and AWE music) in the following games:
Duke Nukem 3D
Wolfenstein 3D
Quake
Tyrian
It also outputs digital sound in Win98, although it's identified as a SB16 in device manager.
However, It doesn't output digital sound in Doom engine games (Doom/Doom2/Hexen etc). 😢
Has anyone else seem this behaviour with CT3980?
Could this be speed related, causing the Doom SB init code to fail? Machine is a K6-3 400. Doom etc worked fine with the AWE64.
Is CTCM the right tool to use to initialise this early PnP card? What about CTPNP.EXE or the old Intel Pnp Config Manager?