Soundcard to replace SB Live recommendation

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Laurence Wilmer

Decided to junk my SB Live as most ATI MMC probs seem to trace to this as
the cause, BUT I like old DOS games as well, so I need one with DOS SB
emulation drivers.
TB Montego used to be recommended, but this (and UK equivalent Videologic
SonicFury) have been discontinued.

Can anyone recommend an alternative please (that does work well with KX7 VIA
chipset and ATI Radeon AIW).
Thanks,
Laurence
 
Leslie Smith said:
I've heard nice things about Hercules products. Good value, power and
very few problems. If you want something really basic for very little
cash, check out http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/muse/.


Leslie
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Thanks for reply - checking if Hercules Muse or Fortissimo has DOS SB
emulation...
.... (still reading reviews - they don't mention it!)

Laurence
 
Whether it's shit or not, half the world has SBLive. Even SB16 works under
WinXP. You should be looking to junk something else to fix your problems.
I'd start with the VIA chipset.
 
John said:
Whether it's shit or not, half the world has SBLive. Even SB16 works under
WinXP. You should be looking to junk something else to fix your problems.
I'd start with the VIA chipset.
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Is that just a hunch or do you know of some issue? I thought VIA had sorted
out their chipset issues since the days of the Apollo Pro. Ive had a ASUS
A7V333 for well over a year now, and its been the best more reliable
computer ive ever owner
 
Forget the the ranter about staying CL SB Jive or Oddity. Just wasting
hundreds of dollars.

The Hercules Fortiss III/Digifire has all the Audio compatibilities even EAX
1 and 2 or A3D Dolby Surround sound and a mess of others.
And it has the SB16 EMULATOR dll to run your DOS only games.

But if you are a Audiofile to record and mix on a professional bases the
M-Audio or SB Audigy2 your liking for higher levels of sound
recording/mixing.

http://www.hercules.com/
 
Chimera said:
Is that just a hunch or do you know of some issue? I thought VIA had sorted
out their chipset issues since the days of the Apollo Pro. Ive had a ASUS
A7V333 for well over a year now, and its been the best more reliable
computer ive ever owner
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Its because I've had a number of MMC problems (low TV sound volume, no sound
at all if record to mpg), and others with the same problem have usually had
the same hardware.

My last good soundcard was an Aureal Vortex, and I only had to dump it when
a DX update meant the joystick port no longer worked - Creative having
bought and killed the company and therefore blocked any driver updates.
I was given an SB Live, and have found no driver updates for W98 from
Creative since about DX7 so suspected that was the problem.

Just went out and bought a cheap Hercules Muse and YES! - with the latest
drivers I now have sound on mpg so can use that format and play files using
PDVD instead of ATI File Player - which is all I actually wanted to do!

I think because it is a cheap card there will be other problems - stuttering
etc - but for £20 I now know what direction to go in (AWAY from Creative not
supporting W98). Maybe a better Hercules card - Fortissimo.

Via chipset is again noting that most problems I have met have been shared
by others with the same chipset - the stability of this Abit KX7-333 is
nowhere near as good as my last Asus P3BF (standby/recovery, zero
overclockability etc), so it feels like I've done something wrong.

Still got the low TV sound problem - but I think this is shared by most ATI
AIW users.

Laurence
 
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