Sound card won't work in DOS

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 8:39 pm

I have a custom built machine that I built about 8 months ago and the sound works in Windows just fine but I just tried to load up an old DOS game on DOS 6.22 (Spear of destiny) (http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/5 ) from 1992 and it can't find the sound card or the joy stick.

This joy stick was moved over from my last system and worked fine. It is attached to the sound card. The sound features that came with the motherboard are disabled in the BIOS.

The game runs fine but only with the mouse and the PC speaker. The video is fine.

My system is a multi-boot system and I have XP pro, DOS 6.22, and NT 4 on it. I wish to get this game going under DOS 6.22.

The sound card, according to XP is on IRQ 22 with an address of A400-A43F. It looks like it is not using a DMA channel at all. XP says that both the sound card and the (CH gamestick) joystick are working properly. XP calls the sound card a "Creative Audio PCI (ES 1371, ES 1373) (WDM).

Hardware:

Motherboard: ABIT IS7-E SOCKET 478 with a (SPRINGDALE) CHIPSET

RAM 1 GB CORSAIR DDR400 (PC3200)

Processor INTEL P4 2.4 GHz 800, 512 KB L2 CACHE

SOUND Card BLASTER PCI 128 SOUND CARD

Video card Matrox Millennium P650, 128-bit DDR memory bus, 64 MB DDR memory, AGP 8x

Any Ideas on how to get this sound card to work in DOS.

Note that this motherboard does not accept ISA cards.

SeaTiger · Post by **SeaTiger** » Sat Aug 07, 2004 8:48 pm

I just wanted to respond because it is my post and the board had me logged on as a visitor.

CloudCobain · Post by **CloudCobain** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:56 am

I'd love to help you but I'm having the same problem with 'Descent 2'.

There's a program that helps this, but I'm having troubles with one of its bugs. You can see if it works for you, though.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/vdms ... T-i386.msi

It's called VDMSound. Good luck.

SeaTiger · Post by **SeaTiger** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 8:07 pm

Thanks!

I got the sound working. But I still can't the joy stick working.

I used the later version of VDM (V 2.1.0) Sound and installed it on XP. It is not recommended for NT as it replaces two critical files and will blue screen NT.

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.p ... e9f8658925

A sort of, manual is here:
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.p ... e9f8658925

Now according to XP the IO range for the joy stick is 0200 - 0207.

Any ideas?

bummerboy · Post by **bummerboy** » Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:11 pm

At least you guys get VDM Sound. I have Windows98, no sound in DOS games, and VDM Sound isn't for 98. So I get no sound in games and I've just given up and uninstalled all the DOS games I had.

CloudCobain · Post by **CloudCobain** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 10:57 am

So... if you don't play DOS games anymore/ever... why post on a DOS games forum?

Oh and I can't help with your joystick problem... can't say I've ever been much of a joystick user. I'm keyboard all the way.

bummerboy · Post by **bummerboy** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:43 pm

I just come here from time to time to see if my problem is ever solved

Post by **emmzee** » Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:29 pm

I'm guessing you tried DOSBox ( http://dosbox.sourceforge.net ) and that didn't work for you either?

BTW, DOSBox also automatically detects one of my joysticks (gamepads) but not the other one. So I guess its kind of hit-and-miss for those kind of peripherals.

SeaTiger · Post by **SeaTiger** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:08 am

No I have not tried DOS Box yet. Thanks for suggesting it!

I will let you all know how it works out.

new · Post by **new** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 6:18 pm

i have win98 and no sound for these oldies please help is there a file i can dounload

SeaTiger · Post by **SeaTiger** » Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:39 pm

I got sound working with both VDM and DosBox. No luck with the CH standard joy stick.

I think that if you have the sound working in windows you can get the sound working with the above programs if the games will run under W98. As for me I can't believe that the sound card can't be made to run on IRQ 5 where it should be.

In my next system I will get a mother board that supports ISA and use the best ISA used Sound Blaster sound card I can get and run my DOS games under PC DOS 7.

bummerboy · Post by **bummerboy** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:01 pm

I have Windows 98, and asked about 20 times how to get sound Guest. Nothing worked. VDM Sound is for Windows XP and the one for Windows 98 doesn't seem to exhist anymore.

DOSBox doesn't work either.

DemoniusX · Post by **DemoniusX** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 5:13 pm

hello, I am stumped, I have a 500 mhz machine and a yamaha XG 32 sound card. I tried running dosBOx but it don't run that good at all. I can't run any games with out sound and I really would like to play games like descent and zeliard with my pc I need sound in games, I can't live without it. I remember there was a boot disk on a cetain site that I am not going to mention cuz its probably not allow. but it loaded the windows drivers in dos and games ran good but the disk got destroyed now i can't find it. can someone help me get sound working on my old games?

kirsty · Post by **kirsty** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:21 am

i wudnt dare

kirsty · Post by **kirsty** » Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:24 am

iv.e never nown ppl so bent as all u computer freaks

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