[WORK] Ensoniq Es1371 Audiopci 97 Sound Card Driver 12

Hello, I'm having trouble with an Ensoniq AudioPCI card. I believe it has an ES1370 chip. I installed the Ensoniq version of the Windows drivers and everything works fine, but whenever I try to play DOS games, the sound card isn't detected at all! Everything seems to be okay with the legacy drivers, I've even tried a few DOS drivers in MS-DOS mode but I always get errors. Is there anything I can do to get the sound card to work, preferably without needing to use MS-DOS mode? Thanks!

I think both Ensoniq and Creative DOS TSR should work with these sound cards. I also had an ES1371 that worked with both TSRs, on an old compatible system. Should note that:

- Ensoniq TSR only supports up to SBPro. Creative TSR supports SB16.

- Not thoroughly tested but according to some info, only Ensoniq TSR is SoundScape compatible. Creative TSR does not support SoundScape.

- FM/Midi both behave similarly with Ensoniq and Creative TSR. FM is emulated from ECW wavetable which sounds very different.

[WORK] Ensoniq Es1371 Audiopci 97 Sound Card Driver 12

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Notes Creative Configurator works with VXD drivers only. The Creative Configurator program link in the Start Menu will be removed after users install the Web Update. For users who are running Windows 98SE, this Web Update will upgrade VXD drivers to WDM drivers.This release works with the CT4816, CT4751, CT5808, CT4740 and the CT4815. This package is not applicable to model CT4730 2-channel audio card. Installation WILL NOT proceed. Hide Details

The other issue seems to be in Safemode, even with a dodgy "driver" installed (for the wrong card), you cannot find any evidence of sound hardware, except the onboard stuff. Restarting, Windows "alerts" you it has found a "new" PCI Multimedia device. Do I skip this and *just* run the "driver" installation program, then skip the prompts made by Windows for the new hardware again or am I supposed to do something? I ask this, as it seems if you actually do something (and select the newly created "Ensoniq AudioPCI" from the Creative list, you are prompted for the Driver CD - which I don't have, and is why I downloaded that file in the first place) - note that checking out the "ESS" menu shows no sign of an "AudioPCI" or "ES1370" - just ES models higher/lower than mine.

So it seems my device is something inbetween the two companies! I might have to try installing as a regular AudioPCI just to get the installer to work or try installing the drivers onto a Soundblaster driver. I should that No BIOS settings should interfere: Windows 2000 on the same machine works FINE with the card (no drivers needed, either - and they also claim I don't have appropriate hardware for the drivers installed!)

Thanks for a very useful summary. I would also add that another drawback is the need for EMM386 to be loaded in order for the sound card to work in DOS, which prevents some older games from running (e.g., Ultima 7, Turrican 2, just to name a couple).

BTW, the Creative Labs' Sound Blaster Live and Audigy cards use those same wavesets (and similar, if not the exact same) DOS drivers for their DOS MIDI music playback. Also, in Windows, the Live and Audigy's "SBLive Software Synthesizer" uses those same wavesets (along with soundfont support for their "Synth A" and "Synth B" Windows MIDI devices).

Aureal has a very usable DOS driver too. A neat thing about it is that the Aureal cards have a wavetable header and it does work in DOS. It is SBPro-capable for digital sound but has no 16-bit choice. It does not need EMM386 but it is still not 100% compatible.

The AudioPCI supported DOS games and applications using a software driver that would install during DOS, or the DOS portion of Windows 9x. This driver virtualized a Sound Blaster-compatible ISA sound card through the use of the PC's NMI and a terminate-and-stay-resident program. This allowed the AudioPCI to have more compatible out-of-the-box DOS support than some of its PCI competitors for the time.

While Ensoniq's approach generally worked with most games, some older games had problems detecting the virtualized hardware on some systems. In addition, the DOS driver required a memory manager such as EMM386 to be loaded, which not only required additional conventional memory space but also put the CPU into Virtual-86 mode, conflicting with games that utilized a modified form of protected mode, called 'flat mode'. This mode allowed fast, direct access to the system's entire RAM without requiring a memory manager or memory protection mechanism. This is not a requirement exclusive to AudioPCI, however, as a number of ISA sound cards used it as well, including the Creative AWE ISA series.

Part of the deal when Ensoniq was purchased by Creative Labs was to integrate the AudioPCI DOS driver into the upcoming Sound Blaster Live!. Creative added Sound Blaster 16 emulation to the driver and removed the Ensoniq SoundScape support. AudioPCI itself was re-branded as several Creative Labs sound cards, including the Sound Blaster PCI 64, PCI 128, Vibra PCI, and others. The Ensoniq ES1370 audio chip was renamed Creative 5507 and revised into AC'97-compliant variants, the ES1371 and ES1373, and used for several more years on card and as integrated motherboard audio.

The AudioPCI ES1370 was developed by Ensoniq. One important feature of this chip was that it used the PCI bus, instead of the ISA bus commonly used by sound cards at that point. It was one of the first PCI sound card solutions to offer MS-DOS legacy compatibility without special hardware extensions to the standard PCI slot. When paired with a capable codec, such as the AK4531 (pre-AC'97), the ES1370 supported the then-latest in 3D audio positioning through 4-speaker surround sound. The chip was also a PCI bus master device that was designed to provide high-speed access to system RAM and resources, for sample synthesis data and effect processing. Depending on the drivers, it may also be called the Sound Blaster 64/128 in the device manager.

In 1997, Ensoniq introduced AudioPCI - a budget PCI sound card. At the time, the company was getting squeezed out of the market by Creative Labs, and so needed to change direction away from high-end audio and into the budget OEM market. For this new card they devised an ISA software audio emulation driver that was compatible with most DOS games. It was rare for PCI sound card manufacturers to bother with DOS compatibility now that Windows was taking over the world. To OEMs the card was sold for ~$50 USD a piece. For anyone else, closer to ~$80 USD.

I'm receiving the Sound Device Cannot be Opened, Undefined External Error, Failed to connect virtual device sound, when I start VMware Player. The card is found under the Device Manager (PCI Slot 34), and is given the default Creative AudioPCI (ES1371,ES1373) (WDM) driver. When I try to upgrade to the 1010 / 1616m driver, Setup is unable to detect the device.

You cannot install the sound card/drivers inside the guest OS within VMware Player... VMware will ALWAYS use a virtual SoundBlaster PCI Audio / Ensoniq audio card. Follow the instructions in the user manual for that - you will need to download drivers from Creative's site for it.

Does the new sound card work on your host? You will need, obviously, to install the drivers for the host to recognize and use the card. This must happen before VMware can use it to passthrough the audio from the virtual sound card in the guest.

The sound card works on the host. There is a fundamental problem (well documented, albeit not recognized by Creative) with the card on a 64 bit machine in that it brings on the BSOD quite routinely. That said, it is pretty nifty for both recording audio and midi when it doesn't crash the system. I was hoping that running on a 32 bit instance through VMWare would reduce, if not eliminate, my crashing (so, there is more to the effort than simply a self-inflicted joy of suffering). However, understanding the host relationship now, there is certainly a chance this "bug" is causing the conflict within VMWare.

But, the audio card / driver is installed on the host, and does "work" in the basic sense of the word. For grins, I installed an instance of Ubuntu under VMWare; I received the same error at first, but was then able to turn on the card in VMTools with success. I was able to output some audio, although I stopped my efforts before seeing if I could access all the functionality of the card (which, to be fair, isn't my highest concern in the Ubuntu system).

PS: A good idea would be to interface -somehow- the physical sound card to the guest. I have a Creative SoundBlaster Live! 1024 and I know I can install Windows XP drivers successfully in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode (I had once installed Vista RC1 in one partition). But I prefer to run Vista in a window (using VMWare Workstation) so I have the full functionality of Windows XP Pro while experimenting with Vista.

OP: Just run Windows Update. You should see available a driver for the Creative Labs' SoundBlaster AudioPCI card. At least, it worked for me with the Beta2 and RC1 versions of Vista. I haven't taken my laptop home since I created my Vista Release version guest yet, so I can't get past our work proxy to run WU.

Hello! I had done so many changes in Windows Vista and I finally managed to lose the sound driver and I was unable to reinstall it. Windows Update reported the update is already installed and when I tried to uninstall or repair it, there wasn't on the update list! I was fed up and decided to delete the virtual machine. I also uninstalled VMWare Workstation 5 and installed 6 Beta to have as much Vista compatibility as possible. I created a new virtual machine, version 6 type, with 2 CPUs, 512MB RAM, 16GB IDE hard disk (primary master with type set to bus logic), a CD-ROM (secondary slave), 16MB graphics memory etc. I set the guest OS type to Windows Vista to make sure I will have the correct hardware and I will later install the right version of VMWare Tools. I then proceeded to boot the "Windows Vista" virtual machine and install Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit. The installation completed without any issues. And I then had the network and sound problem again. I first enabled all Windows features, just in case I need one of these for networking. After the required restart, I setup my serial modem (automatically recognised as Rockwell 56K external and worked without issue) and I downloaded just the Ensonic ES1371/ES1373 driver from Windows Update. That's it! My sound problem is fixed! And this time I can play any sound without any problem! In VMWare Workstation 5 I had the device installed but there was no sound from the speakers! be457b7860