Full-Screen DOS Mode in Vista

[A Black Falcon]

Hexxagon doesn't have a sound configuration utility. Ingame, you choose between No Sound, PC Speaker, and Soundblaster. All three options work as they should in Vista... which is really odd, given that in everything else I've tried I never get more than MIDI (SC2k for instance has background music, but not sound effects).

I mean, DOS games can't see Windows. Either they can see the sound drivers or they can't... and they should all be able to see the same things. "Every game is different" isn't the answer. They're all using the same resources that come from the same sound card, a Creative X-Fi, and the X-Fi has no real DOS sound support, unlike the SB Live.

You need to switch back to your normal drivers for Windows to work properly, of course. So it's a switch thing -- go to these drivers, run DOS, then go back to normal drivers so you can use Windows normally.

Why not use DOSBox? That'd be far too easy... :D (plus, I like getting the real thing working...)