Nascar and Ensoniq Soundscape

Just got a Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro 200 with the Ensoniq Soundscape wave table board. Installed Nascar and the setup program recognized the card and played the intro and the music fine. Ran the game and get no sound effects or music (and my joystick, which is installed on the sound board, isn't recognized either). Running Win 95, but running Nascar in DOS mode. Any thoughts from anyone? Dan

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> Just got a Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro 200 with the Ensoniq Soundscape > wave table board. > Installed Nascar and the setup program recognized the card and played > the intro and the music fine. > Ran the game and get no sound effects or music (and my joystick, which > is installed on the sound board, isn't recognized either). > Running Win 95, but running Nascar in DOS mode. > Any thoughts from anyone? > Dan

Kevin>> I had an Ensoniq that came with my Gateway 2000 P5-133XL, but the card put me through HELL. It is a good card when it works, but when it wanted to it brought the system down. I called Gateway and they finally swaped the card out for a Sound Blaster 16 card. I'll admit that the Ensoniq had better sound, but I don't miss the conflicts that I had. Also, I am running a Thrustmaster ACM game card for my stick and wheel/pedals. It works very well. No conflicts. But there is a trick to installing it with Ensoniq. E-mail me and I'll tell you how it's done. Don't call Gateway because as soon as you tell them anything about Thrustmaster or any other company they go balistic(especially a female tech).

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> Just got a Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro 200 with the Ensoniq Soundscape > wave table board. > Installed Nascar and the setup program recognized the card and played > the intro and the music fine. > Ran the game and get no sound effects or music (and my joystick, which > is installed on the sound board, isn't recognized either). > Running Win 95, but running Nascar in DOS mode. > Any thoughts from anyone? > Dan

Make sure you run 'ssinit /i'.

On Sat, 30 Nov 1996 09:20:34 -0500, KEVIN & MELANIE CALLAGHAN >> Just got a Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro 200 with the Ensoniq Soundscape >> wave table board. (snip)

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>> Any thoughts from anyone? >Kevin>> I had an Ensoniq that came with my Gateway 2000 P5-133XL, but >the card put me through HELL. It is a good card when it works, but when >it wanted to it brought the system down. I called Gateway and they >finally swaped the card out for a Sound Blaster 16 card. I'll admit that >the Ensoniq had better sound, but I don't miss the conflicts that I had. >Also, I am running a Thrustmaster ACM game card for my stick and >wheel/pedals. It works very well. No conflicts. But there is a trick to >installing it with Ensoniq. E-mail me and I'll tell you how it's done. >Don't call Gateway because as soon as you tell them anything about >Thrustmaster or any other company they go balistic(especially a female >tech).

Thanks for the advice. Greg Cisko had the answer (really don't want to lose the wave table). I'll e-mail you for how to install the ACM with the Ensoniq. The joystick still isn't working perfectly.

>> Just got a Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro 200 with the Ensoniq Soundscape >> wave table board. (snip) >> Any thoughts from anyone? >Make sure you run 'ssinit /i'. Thanks, Greg. That solved my problem.

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> >> Just got a Gateway 2000 Pentium Pro 200 with the Ensoniq Soundscape > >> wave table board. > (snip) > >> Any thoughts from anyone? > >Make sure you run 'ssinit /i'. > Thanks, Greg. That solved my problem.

Great! I have found the Ensoniq to be the perfect gamers card. I have not had any problems running any games at all; anymore :-) Just make sure you get the latest Win95/DOS drivers from www.ensoniq.com. I used to have a SB Pro (in addition to the "E") in my system for compatability. I took it out & went to an Ensoniq ONLY setup about 6 months ago when I upgraded to a P5.