No Sound with Soundblaster AudioPCI 64V

Just purchased a Gateway 300Mhz Pentium II with a SoundBlaster AudioPCI 64V, but Nascar 2 doesn't recognize the audio card, and I'm getting no audio. Are there drivers or patches available for this sound card? I've left a message on Sierra's technical message board, but haven't had any resolution there. Is there a workaround? Thanks, Dale

> Just purchased a Gateway 300Mhz Pentium II with a SoundBlaster AudioPCI > 64V, but Nascar 2 doesn't recognize the audio card, and I'm getting no > audio. Are there drivers or patches available for this sound card? I've > left a message on Sierra's technical message board, but haven't had any > resolution there. Is there a workaround? > Dale What's your operating system Dale? If Win95/98 shut down and restart in "MS-DOS Mode" Get into your Nascar directory and run it from there. Steve

If you run N2 from within W95 and do not reboot it will work. You must have the DOS legacy soundcard setup in W95 though. But I would have expected that it would be properly setup from the factory. Also, if you are rebooting into DOS you have to run EMM386 and then run a TSR (APINIT ) to load the DOS support. The latter method does not work for me, so I run it from within W95. -- Header address intentionally scrambled to ward off the spamming hordes. >> Just purchased a Gateway 300Mhz Pentium II with a SoundBlaster AudioPCI >> 64V, but Nascar 2 doesn't recognize the audio card, and I'm getting no >> audio. Are there drivers or patches available for this sound card? I've >> left a message on Sierra's technical message board, but haven't had any >> resolution there. Is there a workaround? >> Dale >What's your operating system Dale? >If Win95/98 shut down and restart in "MS-DOS Mode" >Get into your Nascar directory and run it from there. >Steve

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> Just purchased a Gateway 300Mhz Pentium II with a SoundBlaster > AudioPCI > 64V, but Nascar 2 doesn't recognize the audio card, and I'm getting no > audio. Are there drivers or patches available for this sound card? > I've > left a message on Sierra's technical message board, but haven't had > any > resolution there. Is there a workaround? > Thanks, > Dale

Same here... I have a PII 400 and a Sound Blaster PCI 128 and Nascar2 doesn't recognize it... The setup.exe file tells me I have an Ensoniq Stereo card... What can I do? I even tried to restart in DOS mode, but that doesn't do any good. Did I mention I was running under Win98? Any input would be nice... I really want to be able to play Nascar2 with sound on my new PC (specially because it looks good with my new monitor...) Thanks! Philippe Sergerie

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998 19:45:47 -0400, Philippe Sergerie

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>Same here... I have a PII 400 and a Sound Blaster PCI 128 and Nascar2 >doesn't recognize it... The setup.exe file tells me I have an Ensoniq >Stereo card... What can I do? I even tried to restart in DOS mode, but >that doesn't do any good. Did I mention I was running under Win98? Any >input would be nice... I really want to be able to play Nascar2 with >sound on my new PC (specially because it looks good with my new >monitor...) Thanks!

The Soundblaster card that you have is not really a Soundblaster. It is a renamed Ensoniq PCI audio card. The reason NASCAR 2 is not working with it is because it is detecting it as an older type of Ensoniq card (there were no pci audio cards when n2 came out. Don't restart in DOS mode, the card requires EMM386 for DOS SB emulation, which can often interfere with N2. Go to an MS DOS prompt in Windows 95 and type the word "SET" (without quotes) and press enter. You should see a line the starts with BLASTER= followed by some letters and numbers, write this line down- The number after A is your Address, the number after I is your IRQ, and the number after D is DMA. There may be more, but do not be concerned with them. If you do not have the BLASTER= line than the cards legacy device is not set up properly. Now go to the NASCAR 2 sound setup. Select Sound Blaster Stereo from the list of cards and change the address, irq and dma so they reflect the settings in your BLASTER = line. It should work fine then. Creative Labs should not have called the card a SoundBlaster when they bought Ensoniq, it sure seems to cause a lot of confusion as a result. Chris "I died for you... Now why shouldn't you return the favor?" -Deathdream --Horrornews--Horrorchat--Reviews--General filth-- Mortado's Page of Filth http://www.nwlink.com/~mortado/