Chirstmas Eve, Hercules released a unified driver for Fortissimo 2 & 3 and
Digifire cards. (Over at www.hercules-uk.com - click on 'Support/drivers' at
the top of the page.) Once you get to the download page, then unless you
need access to the MIDI soundbanks, use the "Small Download" link about
halfway down the grey frame, which saves about 8 meg.
After months and months of stuttering, CTD's and BSOD's within GPL, I've
just run a long session with full sound acceleration, plenty of fx,
(including collisions!) and not once has the game stuttered or thrown me
out. Looks promising so far...
Sorry if this is old news,
Cheers all,
Rick.