Introduction and Origins

As a standard precaution, I'd advise you to do a complete backup of your system before attempting to change your settings. If you encounter problems you have something to return to. Remember, like all installations your mileage may vary. You may also wish to check out some of the other sites linked from my Soundcard Fixes Pages. If you are still having problems, feel free to e-mail me at rharvey@islandnet.com a I will try to help you get your system working properly.

The following was the introduction by John LeMay, the originator of this page who did the lion's share of the work:

I'm sure I am not the only person who has struggled with trying to install one of Creative Labs' Sound Blaster AWE64 cards under OS/2 Warp. For me, this took about two dozen reboots with as many uninstalls and reinstalls of the OS/2 multimedia subsystem. In order to assist others attempting the same installation, I've put together a few tips which have been compiled from email's sent back and forth between myself and Daniel Caetano, the author of the installation routine used to install the AWE64 drivers discussed in the next paragraph. By following the instructions in Daniel's install routine, and applying the tips I have at the bottom of this page, you should have your system up and running with the AWE64 card in only three or four reboots, depending on what card you have installed now and whether you need to apply both of the fixes I list below.

Installing AWE64 Support under OS/2

Once you have downloaded the drivers, you need to make sure you have already installed the correct OS/2 driver for your card via the OS/2 installation routine. If you have a regular AWE64 card, use the AWE32 driver. If you have the AWE64 PnP card, you should select the AWE32 PnP card. Once you have the correct card installed, reboot your machine.

Note that upon reboot these drivers will not correctly load. This is fine. Continue with the installation by unzipping the driver pack which you downloaded to a temporary directory and run the installation with the command install x: where x = Drive Where MMPM / MMOS2 is installed. For example, if MMPM is installed on d:, run install d:. Follow the directions that are provided by the installation routine. When you are prompted to enter data about the card, you can ignore this if your card is a PnP type. Once complete, and you have made the changes to your config.sys file, reboot. If your card still fails to load, here are a couple of things you can try:

• Add a "/G" parameter to the end of the config.sys line that loads the driver for the card.
• If this still doesn't work, change your config.sys line to look like:
  DEVICE=X:\SBOS2\SBAWED2.SYS /C:1 /D:1 /H:5 /I:5 /A:220 /B:8 /M:330 /N:SBAUD1$ /G plus /P for the AWE32 PnP version.
  Where X = The drive that MMPM is installed to and where the SBOS2 directory was created
• Some additional notes from Helen Terbizan:
  1. Make sure you place this line after the com line so that your second com port is not disabled.
  2. The AWE32 PnP version requires you to add the /P parameter since the PnP implementation was faulty and you had to force it. This is not necessary with the AWE64.

Installing AWE64 Support under WinOS/2

These instructions were provided by Helen Terbizan from Sentience and hadn't been tested by John LeMay since he didn't have WinOS/2 support installed. I have an AWE32 card, but have not yet tested this installation proceedure on my system. Further details will be posted when I have completed this task.

• Start WinOS/2
• Open WinOS/2 Main Group
• Open Control Panel
• Open Drivers
• Click Add
• Click "Unlisted or Updated Driver"
• Click OK
• Browse, locate the X:\os2\drivers directory and select the sbawed2 directory (should have been installed when you installed OS/2 Warp)
• Click OK (should install four drivers - select what you need)

Next, check your system.ini file settings for the card. They should look similar to this: (note I have not included the entire file, just the lines that are specific to the AWE64 setup and their section headers to help you locate the lines)

[boot]

drivers=msmixmgr.dll mmsystem.dll winmm16.dll

drivers=msmixmgr.dll



[386Enh]

device=vsbawe.386

device=vsbpd.386



[drivers]

AUX=sb16aux.drv

MIDI=sbpfm.drv

Wave=sb16snd.drv

MIDI1=sb16snd.drv

MIDI2=sbawe32.drv



[sndblst.drv]

PnpFlag=0

port=220

Int=5

DmaChannel=1

MidiPort=300

HDmaChannel=5

AWEPort=620

FDMAPlayBack=1

FDMARecoding=1

FullDuplex=1

SaveOnExit=1

MIDIWaveIn=c000c000

CDWaveIn=c000c000

LineInWaveIn=c000c000

MicWaveIn=0

MasterWaveIn=a800a800

MIDIVoiceIn=c000c000

CDVoiceIn=c000c000

LineInVoiceIn=c000c000

MicVoiceIn=0

MasterVoiceIn=ffffffff

MuxVoiceIn=1e

MuxWaveIn=1e

MuteVirtual=0

AGCVoiceIn=1

AGCWaveIn=1

VoiceVolume=7, 7

FMVolume=31, 31

CDVolume=22, 22

LineVolume=0, 0

MicVolume=0, 0

MasterVolume=23, 23

SpeakerVolume=0, 3

BassTone=12, 12

TrebleTone=8, 8

OutputMixerSwitch=1f

LeftRecordMixerSwitch=95

RightRecordMixerSwitch=8b

RecordGain=1, 1

OutputGain=0, 0

AGC=0

Finally, go back into the Control Panel, select the midi mapper, and select SBAWE32 All.

If anyone has any other tips on getting WinOS/2 to work with the AWE64, please let me know by email to rharvey@islandnet.com.

AWE64 Page History

Changes to this page are primarily cosmetic at this point, amalgamating the WinOS/2 section onto this page, conforming the style to Russ Harvey's OS/2 Site and upgrading the graphics. A couple of refinements to the instructions from Helen have been added. Look for confirmations and some other details shortly.

Future plans include an Italian translation of this page and the documentation found in the zipped files by Andrea Penna.

Please send suggestions for improvements to the instructions on this page to rharvey@islandnet.com. I will do my best to maintain this page as an accurate resource for the OS/2 community.