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murp...@ns.vvm.com wrote:

>Please Help,
>
>My PAS16 has worked flawlessly for years in my 486, but now that I installed it in my 
>new P90 PCI/EISA System, I get a Loud Krackling Noise with certain games when using 
>16 bit sound, ie Duke3d & C&C Etc.
>
>It works ok in Win95 with 16bit sound just fine.  Win95 assinged the card port388 
>irq7 dma3.  DOS assigned the card port388 irq7 dma1.  Dont think that matters though, 
>because while running under Win95 the game still sound bad in 16bit sound.
>
>In Duke3d under DOS, if I choose 8bit instead of 16bit sound the Krackling Noise goes 
>away, but I used to use the 16bit sound setting with no problems with my 486.
>C&C doesn't have any 8/16 bit sound options, so now I cant even play it unless I turn 
>the sound off. :(
>
>Has anybody else had this problem or resolved it??  I like my PAS16 and I dont want 
>to have to buy another Sound Card. I'm Stumped, any info or suggestions would be of 
>great value to me and much appreciated.  Thanx.

I had a similar problem.  In my case, Duke3D works, but Wing Commander IV
sounded AWEFULL, and Zork Nemesis complained that it couldn't initialize 16
bit sound.

Then one of the people who replied to the thread suggested a DMA setting of
6 (16 bit DMA) instead of 3 (8 bit DMA).  That fixed both these games for
me, so you should try his suggestion.  (I don't have his message anymore,
so I can't give him proper credit.)

P.S.  If you can't fix C&C (which also works on mine), try setting the
sound to Sound Blaster instead of PAS.  This will force the program to use
8 bit sound, and should make it playable again.

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