no sound with soundblaster 16?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 9:03 am

Ok, i recently installed a soundblaster 16, which works fine with doom and wolfenstein, but i just installed indiana jones and the fate of atlantis and kings quest 6 (both from 5.25) and they have no sound. anything i can do, there is no setup i can configure the sound and i really dont feel like going through installing it again with all the disks! Thanks

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:21 am

There were so many SB16 models, which one is it.

Is it PCI or ISA? Is it PnP or no?

What machine do you have? What operating system?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 3:11 pm

it is pci and pnp. i am using windows 98se. hope this helps!

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Sun May 01, 2005 1:13 am

Yeah - DOS games don't like PCI sound cards in general. Check if there are any DOS legacy drivers that came with the card.

Are you running your games from Windows or from pure DOS? (by pure, I do NOT mean - opening a DOS window, but restarting your computer in DOS mode, so that there is no Windows in the background)

In DOOM and Wolf3D, do you get only sound effects, or also music?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun May 01, 2005 7:19 am

ok, doom and wolf3d both have sound effects and music. i just installed prince of persia 2 off a cd and the speech and sound effects work and i ran it in windows. i tried running the games in pure dos, but still no sound. would it have anything to do with the 5.25 media?

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Sun May 01, 2005 12:20 pm

Does ANY game give you sound in pure DOS?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun May 01, 2005 5:01 pm

yes, all three i tried in windows also gave me sound in dos as well

dr_st · Post by **dr_st** » Mon May 02, 2005 3:17 am

Alright, some more info I'd like then:

1) How is the soundcard configured in the games where it works, i.e. type, port, IRQ, DMA?

2) Please post the contents of your Config.sys and Autoexec.bat files.