Enable Sound Blaster emulation.

[Dexahol]

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

[Train]

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.

[Dexahol]

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.

[Dexahol]

Bump. Anyone?

[SpywareDr]

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

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D3 T4

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

(Shot in the dark).

[Dexahol]

Good shot . . . but a miss. 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.

[SpywareDr]

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

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.

[Dexahol]

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.

[SpywareDr]

Now try adding the line

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D3 T4

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