PSA: You can use your motherboard's HD Audio for DOS games in Windows 98/ME now thanks to WDMHDA, an HD Audio driver for Windows 98SE / ME (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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(Thanks to /u/O_MORES for posting this elsewhere)

There's a brand new HD audio driver for Windows 98/Me called WDMHDA.

Since it's a WDM driver, it will play nice with the Sound Blaster Emulation Layer built into Windows 98/ME (sbemul.sys).

And it actually works. Here's Windows 98 and this codec tested on a Ryzen 9 PC: https://youtu.be/uhWyH0TsrCc

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[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

the 512MB ram thing is true, but it's just a single line of edit on system.ini, nothing difficult