Re: Sound error: Could not initialize DirectSoundCapture

[Jakob Bohm]

On 2020-12-15 12:46, kazusanosuke_kaz wrote:
> Dear all!
>
> I appreciate your kindness.
> After all, I could hear the nostalgic startup sound by sb16 emulation.
> I'm relieved to hear the error is harmless.
>
>
> There still remains another problem.
> Sometimes I can hear the sound, sometimes I can't. It is unclear what causes 
> this behavior.
> I have never been distressed in this way by actual machines, actual sb16 ISAPnP 
> or other sound devices.
>
> There still remains yet another problem.
> FPU's benchmark score(1) is equivalent to classic pentium @ 30Mhz.
> On the other hand, the score of integer instructions is equivalent to classic 
> pentium @ 166Mhz,
> The window system is so slow as you can see the movement to open a tree of 
> Explorer, default file manager of windows 98. I wonder if it's becouse of the 
> CPU emulation. It seems SSE is not used, vt-x doesn't work. The scores are far 
> from them when I use VirtualBox using vt-x.
> (1) I used HDBench, the most famous software in Japan when people use windows 
> 98 on actual machines.
Please note that CPU emulation via VT-x on a Windows Host machine
requires installing and using the Intel HAXM accellerator, which
acts as the device driver for accessing VT-x (similar to what the
kvm kernel module does on Linux).

> These problems are not urgent or important.
> Just FYI
>
>
> thanks,
> --
> Yasuhide Omori
Enjoy

Jakob
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