I got an AWE64 Gold off of eBay. It didn’t come with any drivers, but Windows 98 has them built in so there’s no problem there. However, I went to Creative Lab’s web site to get DOS drivers, but it doesn’t carry them. I looked on line and found a file called s64basic.exe. Run it, and it extracts files to install some basic components. First, I kept running into low memory problems, until I renamed my dblspace.ini and dblspace.bin files. Then, even if I booted to DOS without loading Windows. Or if I exited from Windows to DOS, every time I tried to run the install program, it kept telling me that I’m trying to install from Windows 95 and it will only install from DOS and Windows 3.xx.
Do any of you have DOS drivers you could e-mail me, or a web site I could grab some from, or a way to make install realize that I’m installing from DOS and not windows?
I tried setver to set the DOS version to 6.22, thinking that maybe it thinks it’s in Windows because of DOS 7, but I keep getting an error that setver.exe can’t be found, even though DEVICEHIGH /L:1,16976 =C:\WINDOWS\SETVER.EXE is in config.sys and I’ve tried running setver from the Windows directory.
So if anybody can help, I’d really appreciate it. Thanks.
See AWE 64 DOS/Win 3.1 drivers for the entire driver page, You may want to try downloading awedw3up.exe as well. The card is designed to work with Windows Plug and Play for some resource assignments. In a pure DOS environment you will probably have to run the Creative PnP Configuration Manager (see previous page for download) to set resource assignments if you want it to run smoothly.
See Sound Blaster® AWE64 Value Sound Card User’s Guide
and especially
Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster® AWE64 Value Sound Card User’s Guide
Also try www.driverguide.com
Use the login name “drivers” and “all” for Password
Yeah, there’s a redme file in the program I mentioned that said that I’d have to run a Creative PnP Configuration Manager.
Anyway, thanks for the links. I’ll give them a try.
Also keep in mind 32 of those 64 voices (IIRC) are software synth. If your performance is lower than you’d like (probably not an issue if you have a 300 mhz machine or faster), there’s a control panel somewhere that lets you turn the settings down a bit. Just FYI.
The computer I currently have one on is an older 166mhz machine. Although I’m thinking of upgrading to an overdrive 233mhz chip.
Anyway, I’m thinking of getting one for an even older computer. It’s a 486DX motherboard but I’m using a 5x86 chip which makes it run as fast, or maybe even a little bit faster, than a Pentium 75mhz. That shouldn’t cause any problems, should it?