Crackled sound in Neptune 5111 VM

[roseywhite01]

Hi,

The sound on my Neptune 5111 VM (VMWare Workstation 12.5.2) on a Windows 10 host is garbled.

I've seen a fix for XP, called VMaudiofixtray which requires .NET Framework 3.5 unfortunately, and will only support XP.

I'm using Creative Sound Blaster PCI emulated sound card on the VM.

Could somebody help out why this is happening? Since it happens in Windows XP Final (oddly, it doesn't happen in Whistler build 2410 at least), I'd preferably like to know.. thanks...

[Win7]

I highly recommend to install Microsoft Neptune on VirtualBox, as it performs generally better than on VMware Workstation and seems pretty stable – I've been using Neptune on VirtualBox myself since 2014.

Win7

[Overdoze]

IIRC Neptune suffers from the same Windows 2000 disk driver bug that causes reboots during installation in VirtualBox. It's quite easy to workaround, though.

[roseywhite01]

To fix that bug in VBox just set the paravirtualisation interface to Legacy and it goes away or use VirtualBox 4.xx

I just don't like the idea of having 2 virtualisation softwares on the 1 PC, but I'll give it a go I guess.

[Win7]

To fix that bug in VBox just set the paravirtualisation interface to Legacy and it goes away or use VirtualBox 4.xx

I just don't like the idea of having 2 virtualisation softwares on the 1 PC, but I'll give it a go I guess.

Well, roseywhite01, I have found myself using VMware and VirtualBox altogether for compatibility issues so many times, and never had a problem.

For NT releases ranging from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 10, I'd recommend VirtualBox, even for some betas (as is the case for Neptune).

Moreover, I have never experienced the bug Overdoze mentioned, since I first installed Windows 2000 on VirtualBox 4.3.8, back in 2014 (there was no support for paravirtualisation modes, back then...).

Anyway, good luck, roseywhite01!

Win7

[roseywhite01]

Okay! I tried Neptune 5111 in VirtualBox 5.1 with Legacy Paravirtualisation and it works fine now. XP SP3 also runs fine too.

I'm keeping VMWare for betas though, Windows Vista and 9x operating systems, since they have better support IMO. At least, I tried Longhorn in VMWare and VirtualBox, and VMWare was generally better for it (builds 3718 and 5112)