SBlive, Virtual PC & Dos 6.22

[mjfmn]

Hi, thanks in advance for reading this. I have an SBLive WDM in my system, currently running XP. I wanted to play the old Dos games so installed Virtual PC 5.1, and installed Dos 6.22 on that. I've found different dos drivers for SB Live and tried them, configuring my config.sys & autoexec.bat files, but I keep getting the same error when I boot the virtual PC: PCI device detect failed. Is there a way to get dos to detect my PCI soundcard? Has anyone gotten this to work before? Thanks again! Mike

These are the first 4 lines in my autoexec.bat right now:
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET CTSYN=C:\drv\creative\dosdrv
C:\DRV\CREATIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM

[TripleRLtd]

Welcome to Windrivers mjfmn!!!
We are going to need more than that!!!
What dos game are we talking about??
First, go to their website and see what THEY have to say about working in dos mode with XP.
Let us know, alright?

[Rellik]

The thing about these Virtual PC programs is that the sound is emulated and the actual drivers for the SB Live won't work, so you need to find out what drivers will work.

To quote from the manual:

Virtual PC provides 16-bit, 44-kHz sound input through Sound Blaster 16 emulation. This means that you can use a microphone to record sound directly into PC sound applications running on a guest PC.

Component Guest PC emulated hardware
BIOS.............AMI BIOS
Chipset..........Intel 440BX
Sound Card.....Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16 ISA
Network Card...DEC or Intel 21140 10/100
Video Card.......S3 Trio 32/64 PCI with 8MB VRAM

Sound

• Emulates Creative Labs ISA Sound Blaster 16 card
• Supports both DSP (sound effects) and FM synthesis (music)
• Emulation includes two Yamaha OPL2 chips as well as a CT1345 mixer
• Sound card is configured to use a base port of 0x220, IRQ 5, and DMA channel 1 (for 8 bit) or 5 (for 16 bit)
• Supports 8-bit and 16-bit sound input and output

You may not even need drivers for dos, all you need to do is configure the game to use the above settings

[confus-ed]

The only 'sure' way to get DOS games working properly is to run them from a real DOS prompt on a real DOS partition or disk .... none of this emulation pants !

So that means either dual boot or run your games on an 'old clunker' .... much, much, much, much, much, much, much SIMPLER !

[Archer]

As Confused has suggested either use a dos partition or a dos boot disk for easier configuration.