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Prism <prism_emf@no.yahoo.canned.co.meat.uk> wrote in message news:<3fd4e32e$0$1159$39db0f71@news.song.fi>...
> Peter Emanuelsson wrote:
> 
> The PnP drivers suck up precious memory.... that's the worst part of it. 
>   I could barely get Ultima VII Part II working with a non-pnp card, a 
> couple of kilos more drivers and it would have been no go.

The bare minimum you need to do is run CTCM at boot up via the
autoexec.bat.  It doesn't stay resident in memory, it just initializes
the PNP card and is gone.  That's all it does.  It's not a driver. 
You may also wish to initialize the volume using the mixer as well,
but there's a switch you can add to the line that calls it so that it
won't stay resident either.  With that switch (which sadly I don't
recall), it would just set the volume at boot up and exit.  You can
verify this if you do a mem check after boot up.

If I remember correctly, there were a few other files that Creative
added that *did* stay resident but none of these need to stay in
memory.  The mixer, I already mentioned.  Even if you don't run it at
all, the card will still work, just with default treble/bass and
volume settings.   The only other one that was AWE specific was
something called aweutils (or something like that).  That one doesn't
even need to be run if you're not going beyond the standard wavetable
midi set, or using FM.  It's been a long time since I used my AWE, so
I don't recall the filenames, but it's certainly possible to use this
card without adding any TSRs to memory.

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Thanks,

MCheu