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Flashback problem with Soundblaster AWE64

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First post, by ]--Freeman--[

Posted on 2025-03-29, 02:10

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Hi!

I have problems running my original Flashback (Floppy Version) game. I get FX Soung but not music.

I have installed a PNP Soundblaster AWE64 Standard Edition card.

My building is the following:
Motherboard QDI Legends Advance 10T
Pentium 3 933MHz
512M RAM 133MHz
MSDOS 6.22
Voodoo 3 3000 16MB RAM

I've tried A220 I5 D1 and A220 I7 D1 with soundblaster setting, but not changes. With adlib doesn't sound.

Any ideas? From the past, I could run it in a similar building with a soundblaster awe32.

Thanks!!

Reply 1 of 7, by megatron-uk

Posted on 2025-03-29, 08:55

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I have found similar with Flashback on several ESS cards (Audiodrive, Solo1) - no matter what settings are used, when SB mode is activated I get music but no sounds.

With a Yamaha opl-sa3 based card the SB mode works.

~~Try switching to the Adlib mode in the setup tool and you should find you get music and fx.~~ Sorry, that worked for me.

I suspect Flashback is just really picky with detecting SB compatible hardware.

My collection database and technical wiki:
https://www.target-earth.net

Reply 2 of 7, by Disruptor

Posted on 2025-03-29, 12:01

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Have you initialized FM passthrough with AWEUTIL /S ?

Reply 3 of 7, by ]--Freeman--[

Posted on 2025-03-29, 20:38

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Disruptor wrote on 2025-03-29, 12:01:

Have you initialized FM passthrough with AWEUTIL /S ?

How I can do this? Certainly in my autoexec.bat runs aweutil /S but enables general midi with /EM:GS bank.

Thanks!!

Reply 4 of 7, by ]--Freeman--[

Posted on 2025-04-04, 14:32

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With unisound driver, Flashback is working.

Reply 5 of 7, by Sleaka_J

Posted on 2025-04-08, 12:31

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I only tried the demo, but sound and music works for me.

I have a similar system
Abit BX133-RAID
Pentium 3 1GHz
512M RAM 133MHz
MSDOS 6.22
Voodoo 3 2000 16MB RAM
Soundblaster AWE64

Reply 6 of 7, by Disruptor

Posted on 2025-04-09, 10:20

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]--Freeman--[ wrote on 2025-03-29, 20:38:

Disruptor wrote on 2025-03-29, 12:01:

Have you initialized FM passthrough with AWEUTIL /S ?

How I can do this? Certainly in my autoexec.bat runs aweutil /S but enables general midi with /EM:GS bank.

Thanks!!

I've had a similar problem on one of my older computers when switching from a non-PNP AWE32 to a PNP AWE 64 (modded to 2 MB onboard).
I had to run CTCM /S before I could run AWEUTIL /S
Then I had FM.

Reply 7 of 7, by ]--Freeman--[

Posted on 2025-04-13, 16:32

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I've discovered the error and it was precisely the ctcm that it was no declared as devide in config.sys. With that and configuring IRQ5 like legacy isa, it works.

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