Sound only on some apps (ahi)

I am having a blast with my revived x5000.

BUT - audio only works with some apps. I am not sure what make the card is, but I know it to have worked perfectly in the past. In Quake2 and Quake3 there is perfect sound. In AmigaAmp3 and TuneNet, there is no sound. Also, in the Sound prefs app, the boot sound doesn't play, and the test sound buttons give some crazy no good behavior.

Apparently, I am using emu10kx.audio.

Is there some hint, that I am missing?

@elfpipe

sound prefs test sound only ever worked with a massive amount of trickery for me, so i don't bother

AmigaAmp has it's own sound settings, you might want to change the output unit and see if that solves it

tunenet I don't know, too buggy for my liking

edit: be sure to set all units to the max number of channels

@Raziel

I have tried everything.

Maybe I just have to accept, that my card maybe is not the best supported.

Is there any good advice on what to buy next?

@elfpipe

go with what is supported: http://www.os4depot.net/index.php?function=browse&cat=driver/audio

the terratecs were good, but I don't know if still available...

@elfpipe

https://www.ebay.com/p/1263504618

the sb128 driver should work

@elfpipe

Don't use soundblasters, they are infamous for being having hardware bugs, low quality board design and being resource heavy.

If you're feeling like a new soundcard then the best one with OS4 support out of the box is one based on the CMI8738 chipset, which are a dime a dozen on ebay.

In addition to PCI cards, they also come in PCIE formfactors, which may be preferable
as, IIRC, the PCI slots on the X5000 don't support DMA transfers.
Wish someone could correct me on that.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from= ... nkw=Cmi8738+pcie&_sacat=0



AEON's enhancer package also comes with a "OxygenHD Sound Driver" , not sure what chipset that is.
A quick google suggests this to be the CMI8788 found in the Asus Xonar DGX, which, if true, is by far the best option.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from= ... w=Asus+Xonar+DGX&_sacat=0

Of course, first ask AEON what the driver actually supports.

Hi @elfpipe

Can you tell us more about your AHi-settings maybe?

For a well working system it's important to set a good mode for Unit 0 and for the music unit to set it to unit 0.

I'm currently using the emu10x driver happily but i also tested some other cards in my X5000.
Sadly i did not test the hdaudio-driver before it was removed from os4depot but afaik i'm happy with my soundblaster live or whatever it's called that i'm using.

Here's screenshots from my settings.







I'm not using the enhancer sound preference program as it did not work when i tested it for the first time a few years ago and it might still suck so avoid it.

"Sound Blaster Live!" sounds very well, no problem at all with os4 drivers

@thread

I have sound on almost all apps now with a new Audigy Fx card and ES 2.2 drivers. Thanks all!