ratfink wrote:

At first I thought the card was dead but in fact it plays MIDI music in X-Wing and I guess SB or Adlib in Jill.

Of course, that might mean the card is just sort-of dead, which seems all the more likely since it "forget its settings and needs to be initialised repeatedly".

I guess you could take a closer look at the card and make sure there aren't any dirty contacts or obvious physical defects.

Yes, it could well be on the way out in some way.

I've already cleaned it with isopropyl alcohol, so it shouldn't be contacts.

Some of its apparent randomness may have been because of where it was storing its settings, which I hadn't fully grasped at first. That doesn't explain why it seemed to need to be reinitialised after exiting a game though but I'm hoping a pattern will eventually become clear on this.

I have one of those around here. Never tested it much, but i can do some parallel testing with you.

What drivers are you using?

Thanks for the offer. Some peogress though:

I downloaded drivers from mirosupport.de. But I saw a screenshot of the sndindos.exe program and that had a tick box for external ide - I'm pretty sure mine didn't, in which case maybe I can either find a different version or see if the file where it stores it's settongs can be edited directly. I'm assuming it may use soundcfg.ini for dos even though it's supposed to be the windows settings.