Sound Blaster 16 drivers/settings for Windows 3.1

[Stinkerton18]

Hey folks!! Have you ever tried to run or install the Sound Blaster 16 Non-Plug-and-Pray drivers using something more modern, storage-wise? It's...it's a chore. The installer likes to just hard lock when you get to the install phase and it does a disk space check. Well, I got tired of this, setup the most minimal DOS 6.2.2/Windows 3.1 on a just 500MB drive to get the files/settings needed.

So here we are. The attached zip has the following:

• C:\SB16 folder with drivers and software
• AUTOEXEC.BAT file with just the Creative changes
• SYSTEM.INI with just the drivers/Sound Blaster settings for Windows 3.1
• The DRV files to put in C:\Windows\System

The AUTOEXEC.BAT and SYSTEM.INI files in the attached zip contain only the Creative/SoundBlaster stuff, making (hopefully) super easy to copy/merge into your existing files. Install should be as easy as:

1. Place the SB16 folder in C:\, so you have C:\SB16
2. Copy the DRV files to your Windows\System folder (usually C:\Windows\System)
3. Copy the contents of this AUTOEXEC.BAT to your C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT file
4. Copy the contents of this SYSTEM.INI to your Windows\SYSTEM.INI file (usually C:\Windows\SYSTEM.INI)
5. Reboot

Hope this helps others!