Indeed, I tried installing Audigy drivers before installing the graphics drivers and had issues with soundfonts. For me, I do this order: DX9 > Nvidia > Audigy.

RE: Audigy 1, that's interesting, do these games otherwise work fine if digital is used or do certain games only support analog audio?

AaronS wrote on 2025-11-23, 23:56:

RE: Audigy 1, that's interesting, do these games otherwise work fine if digital is used or do certain games only support analog audio?

In this context, digital audio is referring to sound effects and speech in DOS games. That's how various setup programs called it back in the day.

Not to be confused with SPDIF, which doesn't work at all on Audigy cards in pure DOS, due to how Creative coded their drivers.

DustyShinigami wrote on 2025-11-23, 23:55:

Yep. Did that, too. Just the other day, in fact.

Afraid I'm completely out of ideas then.

Maybe you just happen to have a rare hardware combination which causes some unknown incompatibility. Or you're experiencing stability problems which only come to light under certain circumstances. I can't help with either of those.

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2025-11-24, 00:02:

DustyShinigami wrote on 2025-11-23, 23:55:

Yep. Did that, too. Just the other day, in fact.

Afraid I'm completely out of ideas then.

Maybe you just happen to have a rare hardware combination which causes some unknown incompatibility. Or you're experiencing stability problems which only come to light under certain circumstances. I can't help with either of those.

Okay, no worries. Thanks anyway. I'll try starting a new thread at some point. See if something can be dug up.

DustyShinigami wrote on 2025-11-24, 00:07:

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2025-11-24, 00:02:

DustyShinigami wrote on 2025-11-23, 23:55:

Yep. Did that, too. Just the other day, in fact.

Afraid I'm completely out of ideas then.

Maybe you just happen to have a rare hardware combination which causes some unknown incompatibility. Or you're experiencing stability problems which only come to light under certain circumstances. I can't help with either of those.

Okay, no worries. Thanks anyway. I'll try starting a new thread at some point. See if something can be dug up.

https://www.sharkyforums.com/showthread.php?5 … ighPoint-HPT366
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/need-he … -sblive.992290/

If you are still using the onboard HPT IDE controller on your Abit board, it's known to cause problems with Soundblaster Live cards. I know you have an Audigy but it sounds similar to what you're experiencing. Not using the HPT controller, lowering UDMA speeds or downgrading the HPT windows drivers seems to help.

Unplug all drives from the HPT controller and disable it in BIOS, then see if any of this keeps happening.

asdf53 wrote on 2025-11-24, 04:49:

https://www.sharkyforums.com/showthread.php?5 … ighPoint-HPT366 https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/need-he … -sblive.992290/ […]
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DustyShinigami wrote on 2025-11-24, 00:07:

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2025-11-24, 00:02:

Afraid I'm completely out of ideas then.

Maybe you just happen to have a rare hardware combination which causes some unknown incompatibility. Or you're experiencing stability problems which only come to light under certain circumstances. I can't help with either of those.

Okay, no worries. Thanks anyway. I'll try starting a new thread at some point. See if something can be dug up.

https://www.sharkyforums.com/showthread.php?5 … ighPoint-HPT366
https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/need-he … -sblive.992290/

If you are still using the onboard HPT IDE controller on your Abit board, it's known to cause problems with Soundblaster Live cards. I know you have an Audigy but it sounds similar to what you're experiencing. Not using the HPT controller, lowering UDMA speeds or downgrading the HPT windows drivers seems to help.

Unplug all drives from the HPT controller and disable it in BIOS, then see if any of this keeps happening.

Ohh, okay. Interesting. I’ve yet to read through the thread, but is there any mention of DirectX 9 being a problem?

I’m not sure if I’m able to downgrade…? Would it even let me now that 1.25 is installed? Worst case I can just revert to an earlier image. But instead of downgrading, I’d probably just settle for disabling the whole lot and sticking everything on IDE 1 and 2. Thanks.

Just ran through this guide to install my SB0090 in Windows 98SE. I haven't tested extensively yet, but everything seems to be working well so far. Thanks for pulling this together!

smax wrote on 2025-12-02, 02:38:

Just ran through this guide to install my SB0090 in Windows 98SE. I haven't tested extensively yet, but everything seems to be working well so far. Thanks for pulling this together!

Glad to hear it. Enjoy!