Add the following line "Set CTSYN=c:\DOSDRV" without the quotation marks in your Autoexec.bat file BEFORE the line
C:\DOSDRV\SBINIT.COM

That is assuming that your Audigy Dos drivers are located in the directory c:\DOSDRV .
Sbeinit.com wil then be able to find the CTSYN.INI file that holds the config setting for the SB16 emulation - IRQ, DMA, Wavetable *.ecw file etc.
I don't know if you need to run SBLOAD.EXE , i'm not sure what it does but I don't run it and the Audigy Emulation works without it for me.

AvalonH wrote on 2020-04-30, 14:53:

Add the following line "Set CTSYN=c:\DOSDRV" without the quotation marks in your Autoexec.bat file BEFORE the line C:\DOSDRV\S […]
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Add the following line "Set CTSYN=c:\DOSDRV" without the quotation marks in your Autoexec.bat file BEFORE the line
C:\DOSDRV\SBINIT.COM

That is assuming that your Audigy Dos drivers are located in the directory c:\DOSDRV .
Sbeinit.com wil then be able to find the CTSYN.INI file that holds the config setting for the SB16 emulation - IRQ, DMA, Wavetable *.ecw file etc.
I don't know if you need to run SBLOAD.EXE , i'm not sure what it does but I don't run it and the Audigy Emulation works without it for me.

Thank you for that, I will give that a try this morning! 😀

AvalonH wrote on 2020-04-30, 14:53:

Add the following line "Set CTSYN=c:\DOSDRV" without the quotation marks in your Autoexec.bat file BEFORE the line C:\DOSDRV\S […]
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Add the following line "Set CTSYN=c:\DOSDRV" without the quotation marks in your Autoexec.bat file BEFORE the line
C:\DOSDRV\SBINIT.COM

That is assuming that your Audigy Dos drivers are located in the directory c:\DOSDRV .
Sbeinit.com wil then be able to find the CTSYN.INI file that holds the config setting for the SB16 emulation - IRQ, DMA, Wavetable *.ecw file etc.
I don't know if you need to run SBLOAD.EXE , i'm not sure what it does but I don't run it and the Audigy Emulation works without it for me.

Sadly I get the same error. Should I try this line with one of the other driver packages?

lackofpatience wrote on 2020-04-30, 21:34:

AvalonH wrote on 2020-04-30, 14:53:

Add the following line "Set CTSYN=c:\DOSDRV" without the quotation marks in your Autoexec.bat file BEFORE the line C:\DOSDRV\S […]
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Add the following line "Set CTSYN=c:\DOSDRV" without the quotation marks in your Autoexec.bat file BEFORE the line
C:\DOSDRV\SBINIT.COM

That is assuming that your Audigy Dos drivers are located in the directory c:\DOSDRV .
Sbeinit.com wil then be able to find the CTSYN.INI file that holds the config setting for the SB16 emulation - IRQ, DMA, Wavetable *.ecw file etc.
I don't know if you need to run SBLOAD.EXE , i'm not sure what it does but I don't run it and the Audigy Emulation works without it for me.

Sadly I get the same error. Should I try this line with one of the other driver packages?

EDIT : I meant these drivers won't work : http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=4 … menustate=43,36
You have the wrong drivers .
Excerpt from the readme.txt :

The SBPCI.zip archive contains the dos sound card drivers for all Sound Blaster pci cards (excluding SBLive! and Audigy Models).

darry wrote on 2020-04-30, 21:53:

You have the wrong drivers .
Excerpt from the readme.txt :

The SBPCI.zip archive contains the dos sound card drivers for all Sound Blaster pci cards (excluding SBLive! and Audigy Models).

What I get for doing this too late last night! haha oh man,
I will go and search for some more appropriate ones. Or do you happen to have a source for some?
Cheers

I extracted the DOS drivers from the Audigy 1 package you linked to for you and zipped them up .
Reading Sbeset.txt should help you get started .

darry wrote on 2020-04-30, 22:50:

I extracted the DOS drivers from the Audigy 1 package you linked to for you and zipped them up .
Reading Sbeset.txt should help you get started .

Many thanks Darry, I will give those a try!

I thought I should follow up on this as there was some missing parts that I managed to piece together. I was still having issues from files missing to no config files etc.

The drivers above and the ones from the Audigy CD rom seemed to be missing two components.

Struggling to get SB16 Emulation working with Audigy 2ZS in Win98
http://wysiwyg.bg/music%5Fsoftware/drivers/so … /sblive/DOSDRV/
http://files.creative.com/manualdn/Manuals/TS … 787/english.pdf

These pages led me to the these two files that needed to be packaged with these drivers/apps.

CTSYN.INI (goes to the C:\Windows directory)
DEFAULT.ECW (goes into the DOSDRV folder, also open the CTSYN .ini to edit folder path of the SBdrivers DOSDRV etc)

Thanks again for your help, I will package these up at somepoint and leave them here if anyone needs to do the same.
Cheers
Mitch

lackofpatience wrote on 2020-05-11, 09:17:

I thought I should follow up on this as there was some missing parts that I managed to piece together. I was still having issue […]
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I thought I should follow up on this as there was some missing parts that I managed to piece together. I was still having issues from files missing to no config files etc.

The drivers above and the ones from the Audigy CD rom seemed to be missing two components.

Struggling to get SB16 Emulation working with Audigy 2ZS in Win98
http://wysiwyg.bg/music%5Fsoftware/drivers/so … /sblive/DOSDRV/
http://files.creative.com/manualdn/Manuals/TS … 787/english.pdf

These pages led me to the these two files that needed to be packaged with these drivers/apps.

CTSYN.INI (goes to the C:\Windows directory)
DEFAULT.ECW (goes into the DOSDRV folder, also open the CTSYN .ini to edit folder path of the SBdrivers DOSDRV etc)

Thanks again for your help, I will package these up at somepoint and leave them here if anyone needs to do the same.
Cheers
Mitch

Hey Mitch, I was wondering if you would mind packaging these up and maybe writing up a total noob tutorial on how I can make this work? I'm having the same issue - I've got a Sound Blaster Audigy Gold (SB0090) installed on my 98 machine. Works great with Windows games but I can't get anything DOS-based to run. I'm trying to play old Build engine games from GOG releases with no luck!

So the Audigy 1 is basically like the Live! on both compatibility and audio quality overall ? I just got an SB0090 ( Audigy 1 indeed ). I read also that is the latest Creative card which had the SB16 Emulation DOS drivers included.

I noticed the dos drivers never loaded due to a pci card being detected. When I switched the bios to manage all resources it seem to resource the ISA to pci resource conflict which the driver might be detecting. This is for a audigy on win95.

_StIwY_ wrote on 2023-05-15, 15:09:

So the Audigy 1 is basically like the Live! on both compatibility and audio quality overall ? I just got an SB0090 ( Audigy 1 indeed ). I read also that is the latest Creative card which had the SB16 Emulation DOS drivers included.

Pretty much, Think of it as Live! version 2
Biggest difference is you get EAX 3 support. (Live! is limited to EAX2) in theory it should sound cleaner/better but not sure if this is noticeable in the real world.
Windows drivers are also a little less boated.
For dos I doubt anyone will notice any difference between the 2 cards.