Legacy DOS sound, need help.

[Rhonda85]

Hello, I have a DFI AK74-EC mobo that has on board AC97 sound (what ever that is). In the BIOS it has an option for legacy soundblaster sound to suppot DOS games in the DOS box. I set this in the BIOS but the DOS games have no sound! In the BIOS it has for legacy soundblaster to use IRQ 5 DMA0, but it does not show up in device manager. All I have is AC97 sound at IRQ 3. When I enable legacy sound support, it puts the following in my autoexec.bat :

C:\VIAUDIO\VIAUDIO.COM
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D0 P300

Any ideas on what is wrong?

Thanks, Rhonda T.

 

[Rhonda85]

I guess this was a dumb question...

 

[KGB]

Do you get an error on boot (ie Driver not found)?

 

[Rhonda85]

I get no errors. Just no sound in DOS games. Surley someone has a mobo that has intergrated sound (and uses it). Or am I the only one that still plays SOME DOS games?

RT

 

[Tominator]

Are you running the games from a DOS window [from within Win9X] or in true DOS?

 

[Rhonda85]

Running from a DOS window, Not from real DOS mode.

 

[Pretty Cool]

Have you tried installing the sound drivers:
Sound Drivers

Did you configure the game correctly to match your sound hardware?

Have you tried running the game in dos mode?


Sorry, I could not be more help. I just don't have much experience with on-board sound running dos games in a window. I could probably give a better answer if you ran the game in dos mode instead.

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

have you tried getting it running from real dos mode?

do you have to let the game detect what sound card you have? does it do that?

unfortunately i have to run most of my games in real dos, rather than in a dos session as i can't get legacy sound in win2k.. *sigh*

 

[Rhonda85]

My sound works fine with the usual windows sounds, MP3's,wavs etc. just no sound when I try the old but still enjoyable DOS games. I guess I will just turn off this built in sound & buy a real soundblaster or go back to my 1995 vintage Aopen AW32 soundcard.

Thanks for all the help!

Rhonda

 

[Tominator]

The Set Blaster line includes the settings you need for a DOS game within Windows. The game in question should detect the settings or allow you to manually match them.

You may need to delete the configeration file in the game folder if the game was not setup properly....and set it up again.

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

Rhonda85

i understand exactly where you are coming from...

as soon as i find a socket A motherboard with an ISA slot (and nope, not interested in another ABIT motherboard, and i am having trouble locating an EPOX one), i am putting my old SB16 back in!

 

[Rhonda85]

I did manage to get the soundblaster pro to show up in device manager. I went to add hardware & made windows look for new hardware. It found soundblaster pro & assigned it to IRQ 5 DMA 1 etc. but no DOS games still have any sound. I wonder why not.

RT

 

[randypj]

I gotta know. What DOS games are you trying to play?
--Randy

 

[Rhonda85]

I was tryed the following: Duke nukem, wolfenstein, hexen, rott, heretic & epic pinball. I did run setup & setup the sound, turned the speakers up as loud as they would go & heard nothing on any of the games.

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

did you try re-installing the games once you have changed to the SB pro?

Or making the game(s) re-detect the sound card?