I have an Ensoniq ES1371 PCI sound card, and I got an MS-DOS wav player to test the driver installation. I tried playing an 11khz made-for-DOS wav (came from Doom 2) and I got an error message stating there were no codecs and the sound couldn't be played.

I've had a lot of problems getting sound to play in stand-alone MS-DOS 6.22, and this got me thinking that maybe I just need to download some wav codec. Is this true?

Thanks!

How did you get the WAV file? Music in the DooM WAD is in the MUS format, and would have had to have been converted. You *can* have an uncompressed WAV which should be playable without the need for codecs.

AFAIK any decompression would have to be handled by the WAV player itself - I'm not sure how you even could apply a codec - but I suppose that may depend on the player

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Mental lapse - sounds (other than music) are WAVs (it's been a while)

Still, it should be just a plain ol' WAV, playable on nearly anything.

Try a different player?

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Thanks for the reply. I tried some other players, one gives an error message stating that the blaster address is set wrong. that is the SET BLASTER=Ax Ix Dx in autoexec.bat. I tried setting that do different values, but nothing has worked. I know the sound card works because it works in Windows XP Home and I can get it to play CDs in DOS.

Here's my autoexec.bat file:
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T2
SET SNDSCAPE=C:\EAPCI
C:\EAPCI\APINIT.COM
C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE

...and my config.sys file:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS NOVCPI
DOS=HIGH,UMB

Thanks.

Hi, I have asked someone to contact you, but it appears the "DOS" drivers for the Creative SB Cards are not "DOS" drivers but WinDOS drivers Install W98/98SE and then via 'restart in DOS mode' or F8 - command prompt, install the sound drivers, it would seem that they run in emulation, as usually PCI sound cards use IRQ 10 or 11.

Therefore in a nutshell standalone 'MS-DOS6 and compatible O/S' are not supported.

WAV and other digital sounds are handled quite differently than CD music

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