Dunno it's of interest any more; if not simply ignore.
If you're building or buying a system for DOS to play old games you don't need sound card drivers. To get any game sound running your sound card or onboard sound simply has to be soundblaster compatible and/or adlib compatible (most soundcards are both). The games only have to be told the port address (most 220), the IRQ (most 7) and the DMA port (most 1) to run with full sound support.
Some games need drivers to use the sound card, these drivers are delivered with the game and you have only to tell the game which of them to use.
You could get problems with some weird graphics cards (mostly on laptops). Nearly every vga card supports 320x200x256, Thats vga standard. Higher resolutions are mostly only available if the graphics card is vesa compatible. If the graphics card is not vesa compatible you can often make it compatible to vesa by loading a TSR vesa driver like UNIBVE. This driver is freely available on the net.
Everything should be fine now ...
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