How come window xp cannot load the sound driver of the dos games? I am just curious and want to know why.

This is an XP question not a DOS question, as there is no M$DOS in XP only an emulation. If you read this NT4 article which also applies to W2K, W2K3, XP it may help you understand: http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/Content/226/03/1.html Also look at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314106 http://www.dosgames.com/xphints.php#7 MERRY XMAS and please re-post this in the XP FORUM as it has bugger all to do with DOS

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Kzeouki: You should try VDMSound if you want to have sound in "Windows NT/2000/XP Command Prompt(Console)"

The 32BitOS XP takes the resources of your soundcard. Then,wen an old DOS-prog try to acess it , itīs allready in use by the OS and not avaible. As long as the Sounddriver supports not the DOS-Emulator Option you wont get sound. If you have a SB-card with DOS-Emulator in driver,choose 220 7 1 for SB-sound. Reason: 32bit NT-based windows-versions protect acess to hardware with theyr HAL-Layer-Architecture,preventing direct acess from Programs.

Try this one- http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~jgossiau/EMU/Emulators.htm I used the program VDMSound listed on this site to fix the problem and it worked rather well.