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Hi, This soundcard has no way of emulating FM. It's using wavetable to play it back. That's why it sounds so bad. I used the official Creative driver (original CD that came with my card), and I also tried other drivers from Vogons.org. (and a different PC). Ensoniq have a long history of bad FM implementation, including the older Soundscape (ISA card). This creative card is a rebranded Ensoniq Audio PCI. Check out this video from pc-sound-legacy: watch?v=NOyax_tLGgs

@@agevenisse3252 Maybe it just rose tinted memories. I could've sworn that it sounded normal, aside from missing my AWE (because no longer had ISA slots).

Hi, it works fine (SB Pro support), but a card with General MIDI support, like the SB Live or Audigy 1/2 is a better choice for Duke 3D. If you're only playing older games without General MIDI and/or SB16 support (16-bit mixing), the Solo-1 is a good choice though. The compatibility is very good, and the sound quality is almost as good as Yamaha PCI cards (but Solo-1 lacks WSS support).

@@agevenisse3252, I use my ESS Solo-1 with a DreamBlaster X2GS on it's wavetable header, and it's awesome. I think it's one of the best combinations for DOS audio. :)

@@socheater does the wavetable work in pure dos mode? or is only in windows?

@@Pickle136 yes, of course it works in DOS. You don't need windows in the background for it. This card have a better driver than the original Creative cards. Uses less memory.

@@socheater interesting im asking cause other pci cards like the aureal vortex it only works in windows.

Hi, it's normal for the CPU to be maxed out when the frame rate is uncapped (and when not GPU-limited). 77 deg celsius is not a problem. The CPU starts to throttle (reduce the clock speed) at 100 deg, but it won't be damaged.

Yep, If I remember correctly setting the sound quality to normal makes the playback speed correct. I haven't tried it on a slower system (without the tppatch applied).

I'm not sure if the Voodoo3 2000 works in Vice City, but it could be the driver- or game-version. Only the combination used in the video works without crashing and/or other issues as far as I know.

@@agevenisse3252 yeah I got it to start with amigamerlin but nothing but glitchiness from there

There were a few stutters because of the high CPU usage in version 1.0.1.6. It's been fixed now though.

General MIDI sounds good, but MT32 (in Monkey Island) is emulated using the same instruments. Not ideal, but better than nothing.

@@agevenisse3252 Just bought the card for my retro pc as well, seemed a good compromise all things considered.

The game itself should run on Windows 95, but I'm not sure if it works with the Voodoo3 3000 since I haven't tried it. As far as I know the game only works with the driver I used, and when using a Pentium III CPU (it crashes after a while on faster Athlon CPUs for some reason).

@@agevenisse3252 so if i use anything Higher Than Pentium 3, it would Crash?

@@sridrawings4510 Yep, it runs for a few minutes and then it will either freeze or crash to the desktop. But it's just with the Voodoo3. Other/newer cards work. With the Pentium III 1.4, I ran the game for over one hour without problems.

It's still ok in most games. I haven't tried TLoU on 9400F with the latest 1.0.5 patch yet, but the CPU usage is much lower than before on my main gaming rig (5900X). 3060ti is much faster compared to the GTX 1080 used in my video though, so it may still be CPU limited with the 9400F.

thanks for the answer, much appreciated!

Yep, SB Live, Audigy (and Audigy2 with a patch) are really good for late DOS games. They support SB16 mode (16-bit, 44.1kHz), and general MIDI sounds quite good as well using the 8MB ecw (the Ensoniq card is ok, but the noise level is high compared to SB Live).

Yes, the card is "emulating" OPL using wavetable. That's why it sounds so bad. ;)

Yep, I'm using a standard PC-speaker (0,5w). The sound was recorded using the built-in camera mic. I have a newer video (gameplay) with better sound. The mic was placed next to the PC speaker this time.

Look at Vogons Vintage Driver Library. Click on sound devices, and Creative. There are several drivers that should work. One of them is "Creative DOS Drivers for the AudioPCI and Creative versions of that card". There's also a complete Vibra 128 install CD. The 8MB ECW-file (for General MIDI in DOS) can be found under Ensoniq (Ensoniq AudioPCI 8MB ecw waveset).

@@agevenisse3252 You have link?

​@@jesusduron6070 UA-cam will hide or delete links. It's vogonsdrivers dot com slash index.php?catid=7

I think Banshee and Voodoo3 are a bit faster using the 3Dfx MiniGL driver, compared to regular OpenGL, at least in Quake 2. 3Dfx own API (Glide) is the fastest option (when available).

@@agevenisse3252 With my Voodoo 3 it is faster with 3dfx opengl but only in lower resolution like 640 and 800, in 1024 and higher i get identical results in 3dfx opengl just like in default opengl. I was wondering about the Banshee.

@@supermario8416 Voodoo3 hits other limits at 1024x768 and higher (fill rate and memory bandwidth). That's probably why the difference with 3Dfx MiniGL goes away. Banshee is much slower, and has a lower memory bandwidth, so it probably hits that limit earlier (at lower resolution), but I haven't compared it yet.

Yep, the Yamaha PCI cards (YMF7x4) are better suited for Pentium III systems.

Something isn't right with the board or your settings if it won't work in a higher clock machine. I have a Pentium III 866Mhz machine, and had no issues. I'd check to make sure something isn't changing the settings of the ISA bus like the clock speed. Anything past PIII likely uses a bridge chip for the ISA bus, and therefore likely is introducing compatibility issues with a lot of sound cards. Not really the card's fault if the motherboard itself isn't very compatible.

I had to use google translate since I don't speak french, so something might have been lost in the translation. But why are my comparisons stupid? It has nothing to do with just pop music. This chord progression was even used on the very first documented music (on stone tablets).