Intel Ich2

[Blanchefle Strycker]

HelloFirst of all, thanks for accept me in the forum

I recently installed win98SE on a Compaq Deskpro with a pentium iii 733 i bought. I already installed the chipset, video and sound drivers and everything seems to work well on windows. I can hear music on winamp and the windows system sounds works well too, but when i run a DOS game like wolfenstein 3d, doom or descent under windows, i cant make it sound. The only sound i have is the sound FX ones (the shots and the soldiers cry, etc)

According to Everest, this board sound card is a Intel 82801ba(m) AC 97 ich2 and i spend a entire day by searching drivers. The only one that works on windows at least is a ADI SOUNDMAX one, but every other that i downloaded just failed.

It's your soundcard . You get sound effects such as speech because of Windows 98 SE integrated Sound Blaster Pro emulator . But that emulator does not have an FM synth, so you do not get music. Your sound card has no native Sound Blaster compatibility.

There is an experimental and unsupported VDMSound 2.1.0 for Win98. Frankly, I never tried it it was available too late for me that I didn't care about Win98 on real machine anymore. If you managed to get it working, then you will get SoundBlaster and FM music from Win98 DOS mode through AC97. I tried VDMSound on Win2k/XP and it worked within the NT DOS mode for DOS games. As machines get more powerful, just use DOSBox for DOS games and play them nicely on windowed mode.

Thanks for your replies. Thats just a project i wanna make for play that old games like my chilhood. I have a modern pc and tried dosbox sucessfully, but i wanted to do it on a ctr and shitty speakers, but my main pc only supports hdmi and, while the emulation is near perfect, its not the same.

However, ill use dosbox until i find a soundblaster card

Ill try to pick one of these, but i found near me a sound blaster 128 pci. I know that fm emulation will be emulation, but will that work for wolfenstein and doom? At least until i find a yamaha card

Edit: i seen a live too, but i dont know whats the version

Thanks

I most likely will work . what I meant by "sucks" , is that tjhe FM sounds really crappy . SB PCI 128 and SB Live have pretty much the same functionality under DOS, the Live is better featured under Windows . If you are not using multiple audio outs, the Live cards are pretty similar .

Hey all, I recently built a 98SE machine based around an Asus TUSL2-C and intend to use it for games of the 1991-2001 era in both Windows and DOS. It's been working great for Windows games with an Audigy 2 ZS. I recently picked up an ESS Solo-1 PCI card for the DOS side of things but I'm finding it tricky to configure and I'm hoping Vogons can help me out with this. For the time being, I have removed the Audigy 2 ZS from the system to simplify things until the issues with the Solo-1 are sorted.

The Solo-1 resides in my 6th PCI slot and while it automatically was assigned IRQ 5, I was able to manually assign IRQ 5 to it in the BIOS. PnP OS in the BIOS is also turned on. I installed the 98 drivers for it from Phil's Computer Lab page. After the drivers are installed, the card has 2 components in Device Manager and looks like this:

When I reboot into DOS mode, I can see that the Solo-1 is being initialized OK on IRQ 5. But the SET BLASTER and ESSVOL.EXE lines from autoexec.bat are being rem'd for some reason. I tried some DOS games but my experience hasn't been great so far - both Doom and Heretic have music but no sfx and KQ VI has music but is glitchy and crashes.

After doing some additional digging on past Vogons threads about the Solo-1 + i815EP / ICH2 boards + DOS games, it seems like Kamerat's PCISET utility method is popular, as well as henk717's ESSINIT method which I believe is based on Kamerat's. I'm not having much success with either of these methods, because it seems like the batch files for Kamerat's and henk717's methods, respectively, have to be run without essolo.sys and essolo.com being loaded previously. The problem is that every time I reboot to Windows, something (the Windows driver, I'm assuming?) keeps re-adding those lines to my autoexec.bat and config.sys files so they are always loaded upon restart to DOS mode. Perhaps whatever keeps re-adding those lines is also rem'ing the SET BLASTER and ESSVOL.EXE lines from autoexec.bat.

WDM-Drivers disable Dos-FM. I never use WDM-Drivers for my ESS-Solo1.

I recommend the 1147er driver. Though you will likely run into problems if you have a fast CPU and a later Intel Chipset like 815 and later.

The later intel Chipset does not rout the signals correct for many games. Other Chipsets are far better for this on later machines. Intel wanted to push AC97 and later codes, so they did not implement the audio-routing in the chipset for later PCI-Cards for Dosgaming. If you stick to windows you will have no issues.

Yes setblaster will always be switched of or deleted. Game that require the "setblaster" entry could be "fixed" when starting the game via batch-file that can be namend autoexec.bat and the first entry is the setblaster followed by the game-executable. I have done this for "rampage" otherwise the sound will never be detected.

You also found the problematic soundengines. Doom1/2 Heretic/Hexen/Duke3D/ShadowWarrior/Rott. All these games do not work. FM is not the problem, but SFX will always cause irq-conflict. Only the very first version of Doom1 will work without a glitch. (before 1.666)

For the "problematic dos-soundengines" you should check for source-ports that don't rely on the Dos-Soundengines. (eg. WinHeretic, DXHexen, Doom95, GLHexen) Some of them also can use 3D-acc. in OpenGL.

After I formatted my drive and reinstalled Win XP, the networkdriver was deleted. As this is an old computer built by myself, i do not have any drivers on CD. I foun out that the driver I need is "intel 82801db lan controller" but can't seem to find it anywhere? Where can I download the driver?

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