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Applications crash checking for DX plugins (Solved)

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chrisNova777:

--- Quote from: dawful on September 17, 2023, 06:30:56 PM ---Can I edit the subject title to (Solved), or must a Mod do that?

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you should be able to edit the subject title of the thread now

dawful:
Thank You. I noticed your announcement, the other day. Just forgot about tidying up.

dawful:

--- Quote from: foksadure on October 21, 2023, 10:08:41 AM ---You seem going through a lot of trouble getting Win98FE to run with your devices, while you could use 98SE/Me, and streamline it with 98lite.

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There are some rather "nitpicky" reasons I have stayed with Win98FE. After streamlining both FE and SE, with 98lite, I was more pleased with what FE had left over. I am running the O.S. in ram, with 1.5Gb of ram, FE was down to 250Mb. With SE, if I remember correctly, I was down to 350Mb. Any further cutting, on either of them, and I lose functions I want to keep. Both could be cut down more, with Drivespace3, at a small cost to the CPU and conventional memory; drivespace cannot move to higher memory when the drive is int13, which the ram drive is. I wanted to save on the CPU; but the conventional memory loss, causing Wolf3d to not work, was unacceptable :)

98lite can alter the shell of Win98. The Shell with FE is already more like the Shell of Win95. Tugging out IE integration is sufficient on FE.

After all the updates, and newest usable files from SE, ME (and some from SDK/DDK examples), FE is rather stable. It seems the only "audio" WDM funciton I am missing, is stable synchronous input/output over USB. It works sometimes, but not in every instance. Most notably when using ASIO4ALL. Some applications work with it, others do not. The USB ASIO driver totally fixes this issue.
It is my guess, that the Directsound hardware mixing, that I am not supposed to have, came with using an earlier version of DirectX 9. But that could also be where I managed to gain the strange issue, that bore this thread. I don't know what gave me multichannel audio support. Maybe some of the FE audio limitations are before a full update?

Files like wdmaud.drv and ks.sys are still the newest FE versions.

There are other reasons for using FE, but they are not audio related (even more nitpicky/nerdy).

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