Finding your sound card for old games

Hitman Hart

Okay, I guess I'm going to sound dumb here, but I got into computers I suppose a little too late, but I don't know how to find the port for my sound card. I really wouldn't know where to look either, but I want to have sound in my old school games like Hardball 5. I'm running Windows XP Media Center Edition on an HP Laptop. Can anyone help me out here?

Rym

For old DOS games, your best bet is to run them in DOSbox.

Hitman Hart

it runs ok visually, my issue is getting the sound to work, I don't think that would change in DOS as opposed to Windows

Rym

DOSbox will map the way your old game tries to access the sound card to the new way Windows manages sound cards. ^_^

(I haven't even looked at the game, and I have a lot more advice: still at work ^_~)

Hitman Hart

Ah, cool, I'll take a look then, thanks

Jason

That was made in 1997. It should work sans DOSbox. Bizarre.

Hitman Hart

I say again, the game will run fine visually. I could play it okay, but I would like to have sound, and I don't know how to find the port my sound card is on so I can tell it

HMTKSteve

Are you running some version of Windows?

Go into the Device Manager in your "System" settings in the Control Panel.
Find the line with audio on it and then find your audio card in that section.
Click on the resources tab.