Aureal Vortex 2 and Windows ME \ VOGONS

Aureal Vortex 2 and Windows ME

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First post, by mattrock1988

Posted on 2019-05-09, 04:03

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Does anyone know if the 2041 or 2048 reference drivers for the Aureal Vortex 2 be hacked to run on Windows ME? I know Windows ME can accept VxDs in a pinch and I wanted to try this for my personal amusement. For some reason, I can get the stock drivers to pick up in the device manager. Thoughts?

Retro PC: Intel Celeron Mendocino @ 500 MHz, TYAN Tomahawk BX, 6 GB IDE Quantum Bigfoot, 256 MB SDRAM, DVD-ROM, 1.44 MB floppy, Nvidia GeForce MX 440 AGP, ESS AudioDrive 1868F ISA

Reply 1 of 2, by swaaye

Posted on 2019-05-09, 20:38

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I don't remember what driver I used but I've had it running before.

You will probably want to run an older revision (~2015), because WinME runs a minimum of DirectX 7.1 and anything after DirectX 7.0a is trouble with Aureal's later drivers. At least in my experience. With drivers after about 2015 I've found that some/most games will lock the system up if you quit a game and try to run it again. ddhelp.exe or the kernel will give an error and then frozen.

A card vendor driver release should work ok too because they are usually rather old revisions.

Reply 2 of 2, by mattrock1988

Posted on 2019-05-09, 22:01

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swaaye wrote:
I don't remember what driver I used but I've had it running before.

You will probably want to run an older revision (~2015), because WinME runs a minimum of DirectX 7.1 and anything after DirectX 7.0a is trouble with Aureal's later drivers. At least in my experience. With drivers after about 2015 I've found that some/most games will lock the system up if you quit a game and try to run it again. ddhelp.exe or the kernel will give an error and then frozen.

A card vendor driver release should work ok too because they are usually rather old revisions.

This was the answer I was looking for. I'll check the VOGONS driver database later this evening and give it a try. Thanks.

Retro PC: Intel Celeron Mendocino @ 500 MHz, TYAN Tomahawk BX, 6 GB IDE Quantum Bigfoot, 256 MB SDRAM, DVD-ROM, 1.44 MB floppy, Nvidia GeForce MX 440 AGP, ESS AudioDrive 1868F ISA

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