Hi guys. I am having a slite problem. I recently bought a machine with a gigabyte GA-8SLML motherboard which has an onboard realtek ac97 soundcard, and I dont seem to be able to find any dos legacy drivers for it.
When I try running any dos games under windows, the sound is terrible, like a scratchy record. I've also tried a dos game excelsior faze 1 lisandier that uses the ct-voice.drv file and the sound is really choppy..
I know about vdmsound but there are no versions for windows 9x, only the nt or xp. upgrade to win nt or xp just to play old dos games? No thanks.
Can anyone help with my problem or do I need a whole new soundcard?

Better off with an old soundcard. If your pc has an ISA slot, try to get an old soundblaster, soundblaster 16, awe32 or awe64. The dos drivers are available on the net for free "sbbasic.exe".

> Hi guys. I am having a slite problem. I recently bought a machine with a
> gigabyte GA-8SLML motherboard which has an onboard realtek ac97 soundcard, and I
> dont seem to be able to find any dos legacy drivers for it.
> When I try running any dos games under windows, the sound is terrible, like a
> scratchy record. I've also tried a dos game excelsior faze 1 lisandier that
> uses the ct-voice.drv file and the sound is really choppy..
> I know about vdmsound but there are no versions for windows 9x, only the nt or
> xp. upgrade to win nt or xp just to play old dos games? No thanks.
> Can anyone help with my problem or do I need a whole new soundcard?
>

Eh? WTF? Of course VDMSound is available for Windows 9x.

For example, you can get it here:

http://users.bigpond.com/james.jacobs/