Chapter 5 aureal sound driver installation – SOYO SY-6IWM User Manual

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Aureal Audio Drivers installation

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Chapter 5

AUREAL SOUND DRIVER INSTALLATION

Installation of the Aureal Sound drivers under

Windows 95/98

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

1. Access to Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows 98 installationCD-ROM.
2. Good-quality speakers or headphones and connecting cables.

3. Joystick and MIDI keyboard for testing the gameport.

Wavetable Memory Requirements:

The Vortex hardware wavetable engine uses a native 4MB sample set. The samples are

stored on hard disk and swapped to DRAM as required. The typical DRAM footprint is

<2MB. As a result, the Vortex sample set provides better sound quality than 2MB sample
sets offered by other vendors, but does not require more memory.

5-1 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION

DRIVER INSTALLATION

If you have older drivers in your system, please uninstall them first as described below.

1. Power on the system, placing the "SOYO-CD" in the CD-ROM drive.
2. During the load process, Windows 95/98 should detect the Vortex chip and display a

message such as "New Hardware Found". If Windows prompts you for the drivers of
the "PCI Multimedia Audio Device", then select "Driver Disk Provided by

Manufacturer". Select the SOYO CD-ROM's \driv-all\Aureal\Win9x directory.

Note: Some Windows 95 versions (OSR2) do not show this prompt. Instead, they ask
whether to search the diskette and CD-ROM drives for the appropriate drivers.

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