to be completely honest, there's a reason you shouldn't try to play some games on a system much faster than it was made for
but at the very least, adlib tracker has a setting that fixes this when enabled
what happens when you mess with custom midi settings in windows 98?
long post, sound card stuff
also, that ability to map more 4-op voices comes from it having twice as many operators to work with
72 as opposed to 36
long post, sound card stuff
ESFM has a couple of advantages over a real OPL3
Primarily in being able to map more than six 4-op voices, which allows for some more complex sounding music.
However this only applies to the native mode of the chip, which is only ever taken advantage of by midi playback in Windows.
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