VMware – Configure Sound in Microsoft Windows 98

91 Comments

1. Thanks a lot for this information. Hours and headaches trying to solve the issue. Does it also work for Windows 95?
   Kind regards.

2. Indeed many hours in this issue and finally got it to work!!!!
   They should put this information somewhere along the Vmware help page for crying out loud!!!!!
   Thanks a million

3. Yea!!! It worked!! Thanks!!!!!

4. Superb page, thank you so much!

   I had some problems with the SoundBlaster installation asking me to insert disk 1 and disk 2 of the installation discs. If this happens, you can find where there exe has extracted the required files and tell the dialog box to browse there instead which (in my case) was: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\CRF000\Drivers\Wdmdrv

   Thanks again – and I had no problems finding this with Google 😉

5. This solution works flawlessly, everything is easy to do ^_^
   5 Stars!

6. Works perfectly

   Thanks a lot

7. Thanks! It works perfectly fine, no sound errors, no crashes!
   If the files are offline again you can use this iso file:
   http://www.mediafire.com/?b3bwih7ap0xwwbu

8. Finalmente, depois de mil tentativas baixando isso e aquilo, mas esta super dica foi a unica que funcionou. Obrigadoooooo….

9. Thanks a million buddy!

10. Many many many thanks – works perfectly.
    Give my regards to Captain Carrot!

11. Thanks fot the help. Does this procedure work for MVware ‘Player’ edition? I have no problem installing the files mentioned here, but, the “eapci8m.ecw” file does not show in the sound menu of the Device Manager after I install it. Also, Do I need to have “Sound Blaster” software on my windows 7 computer that I am running the VMware on in order for this procedure to work? Thanks again, Tim

12. It worked. I love you!

13. brilliant

14. thanx…… million times

15. Thanks!
    This really help me to get Windows 98SE working!

16. Perfecto Brother. Gracias. 😉

17. thanks, working on version 8.0.2-build 59240 of vmware workstation, guest os windows 98 second edition.

18. Thx a lot, worked like a charm.

19. This is working perfectly. Thank you so much for this 🙂

20. Hálás köszönet, a segítségért.

21. Thank you very much. It works.

22. Works perfectly. Thanks!!!

    ///Funciona perfeitamente. Valeu!!!

23. Been wrestling with this for 4 hours now, and this finally solved it for me. Thank you sir!

24. OHHH Thanks, I can play LIberation Day ( a older game with the mitic sound!!!

25. it’s works, thanks a lot

26. Thank you so much. Just got this working on WMware Workstation 9.0.2. Appreciate the detailed instructions and links.

27. Thanks, this worked perfectly!

28. Thank you very much my friend!

    Regards from Brazil.

29. Thanks a lot!

30. A lot of thanks.
    It seemed impossible.
    Thanks from Spain.

31. Also method needs Windows Installation 98 CD to be inserted.

32. Thats works flawlessy ! Only the Wave banks I have to get at somewhere else http://www.filewatcher.com/m/eapci8m.ecw.8292462-0.html (7.91 MB)

33. Million thanks! Worked like a charm!

34. Brilliant! Worked perfectly – this should be fixed by VMWare

35. Worked perfect. VMware 10.1 vm machine win98

36. Thanks a lot, works perfectly.

37. No offense, but I’m looking at the posts of everybody who praised the useless fix given here and I just can’t believe this worked for everybody. I can’t believe my eyes. (And my stupid bad luck.) For me, this page was pure crap. A waste of my time.

    That stupid SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe does not work. I double-clicked it in vmware workstation 7 and it extracted a few files somewhere but before the end it spit up a CRC error( – “File error CRC1( followed by two hexadecimal figures)”)

    This is garbage. No good.

38. The download from FIX94, posted on May 14, 2011 — that did work!
    Good thing I tried it.

    It does work, but get the good version.

    FIX94 uploaded it here: http://www.mediafire.com/?b3bwih7ap0xwwbu

    I know that ISO has the same files inside, but maybe the SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe uploaded at the top of the page is faulty. ‘Cause it didn’t work for me.

39. Freakin’ awesome! Spent an hour trying to get a SB16/32 compatible sound driver activated on W98.

    Also tried to use microsoft vpc and Sun/Oracle VirtualBox. Did countless W98 installs. Luckily my virtual hard drive and mounted W98 install cd are both on SSD… Both of them worked right out of the box with the sound, but have no integration features for W98 (so no drag/drop, no copypaste, no mouse integration and such). VMWare player does, which is AWESOME.

    So then I tried VMWare player, which is by far the best performing W98 host and with easy-to-install integration features, but has no out-of-the-box sound integration.

    Finally, finally I found this page. Got it to work within seconds. And yeah I am using the free “Player – for non-commercial use only” edition, so that works. Also tried the VMWare documentation guidelines but they are for the paid version. Maybe that’s why they don’t work.

    If I had found this site at my first attempt I might already have completed the Magic the Gathering game that is not compatible with Windows 8 -stupid ’97 Microprose not being able to preemptively support operating systems of 11 years in the future 🙂 – which is why I needed W98 in the first place.

    So thanks! Thanks a bunch. Now I can enjoy a shameless bender of playing old games from back when I was finishing high school.

    Man, I needed that.

40. It just asks me to insert Win 98 CD and when I do I get a bunch of errors of missing files and it freezes the installer. What a bunch of crock:

41. I know this ws posted about 13 years ago. I tried that and it didn’t work for me. Sound is still glitchy. Using Windows 11 23H2 host with VMware Workstation 17.5 with Windows 98 SEwith hardware set as Workstation 5.x

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