SB16 emulation, is it needed?

[troopr]

What is SB16 emulation and is it needed? I want to remove it from device mgr. to free up and IRQ. Will this cause any problems? Thanx for your reply

Joe

 

[ycs46241]

yes it will cause sound problems with your sound blaster it emmulates dos drivers and older sound compatibility

 

[Guest]

it emmulates dos drivers/ Do I need it to do this since i have winME which cant be boot up into DOS mode?

and older sound compatibility/ by this do you mean old programs? I can deal with not being able to run some old programs

I realy need the extra IRQ that it takes up

 

[Toejam31]

You can either go into the Properties for the 16-bit emulation and allow it to share an IRQ with the printer port, or just disable it. If you aren't going to be running older games, you don't need it.

I doubt that you'll ever notice that it isn't running.

If you really need a free IRQ, disable a serial port in the BIOS, unless you have a device that needs it. Even if you have a dial-up modem going through COM1 or COM2, it only needs one IRQ.

Toejam31

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