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Aureal Sound
Driver
Installation
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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.
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.
Installed drivers may include Vortex PCI audio, Vortex wavetable, Vortex mixer, and vortex Sound Blaster
emulation.
Depending on the version of Windows 95/98 and the configuration of the system, you may be prompted
to provide several file locations. Here are the CD-ROMs and directory locations for which you may be
prompted:
Windows 95/98 Installation Disk \driv-all\Aureal\Win9x