I recently "saved" Clevo 2850 laptop from my workplace (not used after 2007?), which have that soundchip integrated. It's original hdd (Win 98 installed) was extremely slow, bad condition. So I took other hdd (Win ME installed) from my Compaq Armada 7800 for testing this Clevo. Win ME suggest "yamaha ds1 native audio driver" at the startup, so I installed it. Sounds were working, but when I look Control panel, Sounds&Multimedia, Midi playback did not have DS-XG synth option, only MS GS synth, Yamaha opl3-synth, Yamaha MPU401. Then I tried instal this driver "WDM Driver Win 98SE/Me/2000 DirectX8 works with WDM driver (v. 5.12.01.2228)" from here , but after restart pc, I have no sound at all and speaker image in the downright corner disappeared. At some point "Windows found new device, PCI Multimedia Audio Device" I tried instal that, but it did not found on the Win ME cd. I uninstalled that "WDM..." driver and tried this older one "Win 95/98/Mev. 4.07.1040 (DirectX7 Certified)" from the same page, it did not help. Any suggestion what to do?
YAMAHA XG YMF744B V SOUND CARD driver
The DS-XG family processors were used in many inexpensive (sub-$50) soundcards. Relative performance was good despite the typical low cost. The cards were usually equipped with good quality 18-bit Digital-to-Analogue Converters, providing similar low noise and harmonic distortion levels to those found in semi-professional hardware.
The XG synthesizer on the DS-XG series features not only basic XG System Level 1, but also some of the MU-50 additions, and can reproduce most musical data previously programmed for the popular DB50XG daughterboard. YMF7x4 cards shipped with a 2 MB bank of 8-bit samples by default, which must be loaded into system RAM during booting. Neither the resolution nor content of the sample bank are hardware limitations. A user can load their own banks using third-party tools to further improve sound quality or completely change the set of instruments.[2] As with most other XG standard tone generators, YMF7x4 can switch itself into TG300B mode, which is an emulation of the Roland GS standard that allows adequate playback of musical data bearing the GS logo.
The original version of the DS-XG chipset series is the YMF724. It is limited to two-channel output. It is followed by the YMF744 and its variants, which feature four-channel output. The final and most advanced version of the YMF7x4 chipset series is the YMF754, which also features standard four-channel output, but adds lower power consumption features. The most feature-rich soundcards based on the YMF754 are the Labway XWave 6000 (which has an additional hardware chip to emulate 5.1 surround sound and a six-channel amplifier providing 2W per channel) and the Hoontech SoundTrack i-Phone Digital XG (which features an additional connector for an included speech-optimized headset microphone as well as support circuitry that limits feedback in telephony applications).
Nice guide, lot's of good info there. Just one correction I see, the Aureal Vortex2 cards support more than 16 DS3D channels, they can handle 80 DS3D/96 DS sources with the Aureal drivers.The 16 stated in most reviews were confusing the 16 channels in the A3D audio block as the entire cards limit.
The AU8830 has always had 96 DMA channels and 4 sub buffers for each available. There are 64 dedicated channels feeding the WT block and 32 more channels that connect directly to the VDB bus. Each are dynamically routed so whatever WT voices aren't being used for midi can be used for DirectSound 2D/3D playback. DS3D should report whatever the drivers aren't reserving, so most of the time it's 92 available DS channels and 76 DS3D. I don't see the channel bug using the 2041 drivers, but the 2048 drivers had an issue noted in the readme that only 16 DS3D channels are reported when A3DVerb is enabled, and this was fixed in the 2050 drivers.So this isn't a limitation of the card, just driver bugs. They tried to multiplex the audio streams and that's why they flip sometimes or are completely reversed from the get go.
SB-Live are way inferior by design if you ask me. It's not a true Stereo card, and you really want to have an stereo card when doing some pre 99/00 build for gaming all the old games. Second. It has "real instruments" sound cabability (wavetable/midi/whatever you want to name and call it), just as well as the Live has. The thing that really sets it apart from the Live. Is that the YMF-724 has OPL core build into the XG chip.Wavetable/midi combined with OPL3-Core in one package, SB-Link and in some cases XMS cabable setup in pure MS-Dos...
Still a no go for me, if I use the modified one it doesnt detect the sound card at all. The default one detects the sound card when I select D-DMA , I have to select DMA 0, I set the IRQ to either 5 or 7 when I run the test , 8-bit , 16-bit and FM works 100% , games like Wolfenstein 3d Flawless, Doom, duke nukem etc... says there is a DMA conflict ? and just refuses to work at all.
Now about mixer. To set rate=49716 has sense only when you are using OPL emulation. In case of oplmode=hardware, the param rate= relates only to PCM in DOS games, wich is either aliquot to 11025 or below with ugly quality. Thus, it's better if the final upsampling will be aliquot to 11025, hence to use rate=44100. If your card supports 44100 without SRC. In case it does not support this, then you'll need to test and choose between SRC to 48000 done by DOSBox (rate=48000) or by your sound card (rate=44100). Practically PCM sound in DOS games is not good, so you may don't notice the difference.When you wish to use OPL emulation with oplrate=49716, then you need to try and choose between SRC done by DOSBox (rate=48000) or by your sound card (rate=49716). If for some games you'll think more erratic OPL play is lesser evil than SRC artifacts, then you are using oplrate=48000 and hence should be used rate=48000.
In SpeakerOut mode - yes, in LineOut - acceptable for games. Also some cards have mediocre codecs what makes the situation worse. YMF730 used on that two cards is probably worse than STAC9704. YMF7x4 cards, when were new, costed $20-30 - to wait from them same as from Santa Cruz which costed $100 is excessively. Also there was used 44.1 kHz, while SRC may be improved by settings or other version of drivers. The better example there is Hoontech SoundTrack Digital XG YMF754.
Anyways, considering it's not exactly a quality SB-pro compatible card I'm replacing (ISA Aztech SG NX something), I think I wouldn't complain to be honest. I do have the MX300 though. But it's the XG I'm looking for, it should satisfy me until I get one of the better MU-EX modules. I found some games really do sound better on XG than on Roland SC/GS.
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