Hi guys!
First, apologies to all of you annoyed/bored by this ongoing thread,
but a few of us may benefit from all the advice available. Hopefully.
My PC setup is as follows:
O/S: Windows 98 (Original full release)
CPU: AMD K6-3/400
M/bd: MVP3 TI5VG+ with 1Mb Cache
RAM: 2x16Mb EDO 60nS SIMMS
HD: 4.3Gig (2Gig free)
Video: Creative Savage 4 AGP 32Mb (2x AGP on m/bd & v/card)
Audio: Creative Live Player 1024
CD: Creative CD-RW 2 2 24
FD: Standard 3.5"
Modem: Rockwell chipset ISA v90
Countless drivers loaded, all in the Upper Memory Area of DOS, inc things
like a 64K Expanded Memory(EMS) page frame, DOSKEY, PRINT and
SMARTDRV (with 2Mb cache). Yeah I'm an 80's DOS throwback :-)
My UMBs run from addresses B000-B7FF and C800-F7FF. And I've
disabled BIOS caching b4 you ask! Unfortunately the SB16 emulation
driver refuses to load high, so far but I'll work on that :-) I've still got 617K
(631,000bytes) free conventional memory-- wooo!
Win98 loads about ten or eleven things which appear at the right of the bar
at the lower screen edge, but exiting them has no effect.
But I just *Know* the problem is the emulated SB16 DirectX which on my
old card had a delay of about 200mS while a true DirectX driver gave
about 40-60mS reliably. Unless Creative can give direct SB16 access
for DirectX drivers the old SB16 card seems the only choice :-(
The stuttering occurred in the same prog it does now b4 I changed my
genuine SB16's driver before-- an emulator of an old home computer.
If I can find it I'll dig out Rebirth RB-338 demo (a synthesiser thingy I
know little about) and see what it reports about my SB16 setup now.
Phew-- well thats my PC, any ideas anyone or is it use my other ISA
slot and plug in the old SB16 (and lose one of my 4 free PCI slots when
doing so) ?
Cheers,
PrinceGaz -> enjoying a sort of masochistic pleasure from spending hours
faffing about with every concievable PC and BIOS setup! And having a
boot disk ready :-(
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