Posted by Sirwinston on 20, 2001 at 5:59 PM:
In Reply to: I couldn't disagree more... posted by Ohso on 20, 2001 at 5:48 PM:
I use a SB Live! Value for Windows games, *and* a Soundblaster AWE64 Value ISA card for DOS games. I almost always run DOS games under Windows, but the setup works flawlessly--the output of the ISA card into the Line-In of the PCI card. It works well since they use different resources and interrupts, so the DOS programs see the ISA card and ignore the PCI board, and Windows programs see both and allow you to choose which device. If you install the ISA card first, the Live!'s install program sees the ISA card and avoids installing the "SB16 emulation" that it wold install otherwise. I hated that SB16 emulation because it would always, on my PC at least, use nonstandard IRQs and addresses that DOS programs wouldn't automagically detect, so I had to set them manually. Not so now...