IIRC, 98 needs a homebrew patch to not crash if you have more than (512MB? 1GB?) of RAM.
Be careful, this DOS audio stuff is a rabbithole in and of itself. Apparently, no Sound Blaster emulation is perfect for all games and there are some things that only an ISA sound card can do. I think it was a fairly short list of problematic titles, though. I’ll return to post a link if I can find it.
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 3 days ago
the 512MB ram thing is true, but it’s just a single line of edit on system.ini, nothing difficult
f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
If we’re talking DOS software in 98SE, there’s a few patches to limit the RAM seen by the OS to 512MB or 2GB for compatibility.
archive.org/details/Windows_98SE_Memory_Patch
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 days ago
yep rloew’s patches are great rloewelectronics.com
though that much ram isn’t really necessary, setting MaxPhysPage=20000 (512MB) just works fine