Enable Sound Blaster emulation.

I'm trying to load a DOS driver for my sound card (Aureal Vortex) in my autoexec.bat file. I keep getting an error: Sound Blaster emulation not enabled.

Anyone know how I can enable this? Its a Win 98SE system.

Thanks all.

Dex

Check in device manager, been a long time since I fought SoundBlaster and the dos problems it causes, but I seem to remember that could be killed in DM.

Hey Train; Yeah, it can be easily disabled in the Device Manager. The problem is, I'm trying to enable it. ;) I think it has to do with something I need to load, but I'm not sure what.

Bump. Anyone? :p

Don't know if it'll work but, try adding the line:

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SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D3 T4

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to the top of the C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file.

(Shot in the dark).

Good shot . . . but a miss. :o I did a search on MS's knowledge base too. They touch on the subject but don't offer any concrete solutions. I know I had to deal with this once before, but can't remember what I did. I tried adding Creative support in the "Add New Hardware" applet, and poking around in the "Multimedia" properties tabs. But all didn't pan out.

If I recall, this may have had something to do with something you checked when first installing the sound card. I may uninstall it, and then reinstall it to see if I missed something.

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Originally Posted by Dexahol

Good shot . . . but a miss. :o I did a search on MS's knowledge base too.

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Actually, I fired up an old 98SE machine that I remembered seeing the "VORTEX DOS AUDIO DRIVER ... Aureal Semiconductor" message on when booting it up.

Post the contents of your C:\CONFIG.SYS and C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT files and let's see if we can help you spot anything wrong.

Your post reminded me that I have this working on another Win98SE machine that I don't use much anymore. Both that machine and this one have the same config.sys/autoexec.bat files, which is to say there is no config.sys. And the autoexec.bat consists of only one line:

LH C:\WINDOWS\AU30DOS.COM

Thats it. I checked the Device Manager of the working machine, and sure enough, under "Sounds, video and game controllers" was "Vortex AU8830 Sound Blaster Pro Emulation." I checked the drivers and they were listed as:

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\AU30SBFM.VXD
C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MMDEVLDR.VXD

The non-working system has those same two files, so I guess its just a matter of seeing how to get them "activated". At this point, I should point out that my sound card works fine for all applications except this one game. (NFS II)

Its only the DOS emulation that doesn't load.

Now try adding the line

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SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D3 T4

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directly below that AU30DOS.COM line, reboot and then see if it works.