Kxproject drivers "3550" on Win98 (SBlive/Audigy[10k1/2])?

[awkduck]

It appears to me, that the last Kxproject driver (outside of community efforts) is 3550. There are earlier versions that work on Win98se and newer. Has anyone tried, or had any luck, getting/fudging newer versions to work? The driver/utilities source is available, now; so I can play around, at my leisure. However, my aim will be to get some functionality in Win98FE. I may decide it isn't a good aim I thought I should ask "here" before digging around, too much.

Edited October 27 by awkduck

[Nokiamies]

Well it might or might not work. I looked around and Kxproject drivers are WDM (Windows driver model) based which was used from Windows 98 onward. There are some differences in WDM between 98FE and SE and those changes may break things. You can try driver and see if it causes any errors.

 

There was also WDM update for Windows 98SE numbered Q242937/Q269601. That was included with some sound cards atleast. Not sure if 98FE had similar update. If you extract update using for 98SE it got newer wdm driver files. Yes I am totally aware you talk about 98FE and what i am getting after here is that you extract driver files from update using  /c switch then attempt dirty replacing on 98FE and hopefully not hose up things. Here is US version of update I kept copy on my site since it is hardest to find considering ms never distributed it on their site (https://web.archive.org/web/20000711041313/http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q242/9/37.ASP). Anyway below is nice direct download to the update.

http://nokiamies.net/files/upd/win/98SE/269601USA8.EXE

I know this is not straight answer but better have kick in some direction than no kick to any direction at all. I am pretty sure there are little to none those mad-lads who insists on doing something just because (count me in to those ) , so you propably need figure stuff out yourself via trial and error. Of course I can try help best I can but I am not miracle, just ordinary boring technician.

Let me know how it goes and any errors may encounter

Edited Thursday at 01:51 PM by Nokiamies

[awkduck]

Thanks! I'll take a look at those files, after extracting them.

Since the driver source is available, I may have to backport them that way. I'll need to familiarize myself with the differences between WDM versions, and setup up the correct compiler/build tooling. From where I stand now, I can't see why some of the more interesting features could not work with earlier WDM systems; but that is just from reading about the differences "on paper".

The main developer did mention "not" supporting win98fe due to the WDM version; then later Win98se was also dropped. However, for my target features (ASIO, Soundfont support, hardware mixing/routing, DSP FX, etc) I'm not sure where the problem would have been.

It may have been an issue with how the whole thing was written. The same developer also mentioned requiring a near total rewrite, in order to support more features. I'm not sure how (yet) leaning into newer WDM specifications could have caused that (it was probably something else). If it was the case, then I could be in trouble. I think the need for a heavy rewrite had something to do with wanting to support EAX and higher audio sample rates (ASIO was fixed at 48000hz).

There was also some talk about needing a near complete rewrite, to support ALSA (Linux); but that doesn't mean much here.

Thanks again, for the tips. If I have any luck there, I'll report back.