New SB Live drivers for Win98/ME/2000

[Hunsow]

Get them here.

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[daniele]

Sorry for my ignorance, Hunsow, but I can't understand two things:

1- Are these drivers for any kind of SBLive? I ask you this 'cause I read in txt a reference to part numbers.

2- Why these drivers are not yet on the official site?

Please do not think I do not trust you, it's only that I have the special skill to mess up my system so.....I would like to keep myself off troubles!

Thank you very much.

Daniele

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PIII 450 Mhz@450 (it's time to overclock?)
Mobo: MS6163 PRO
RAM:256 Mb
2 HDs: QUANTUM KA 7200 rpm 13 Gb, QUANTUM 8 Gb
DVD PIONEER 104S
SBLive! (Value)
G400 Max 32Mb DH
Monitor Flatron LG FT795 plus
FaxModem 3Com U.S. Robotics 56k ext.
Cordless Logitech Desktop Pro
Joystick Microsoft Force Feedback pro
O.S.: WinMe

[DentyCracker]

These drivers appear to have been developed by Gateway2000. I have downloaded but not installed them. They are the WDM drivers (new type). Currently the official Win98 SBLive! drivers are not WDM but the Win2k ones are. In a couple of weeks new WDM drivers should be on Creative's site

[Hunsow]

1- I don't know, they are for the Creative Sound Blaster Live! Value, but in theory should work with any live.

2- Again, I don't know. Creative releases often drivers months after creating them, but meanwhile do deliver them to manufacturers like gateway.

I just came across this link and thought to share with other forum members. Use at your own risk.

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[Humus]

I have installed them and they vork great with my soundblaster live 1024 value.

The great thing with these drivers are that they have included A3D support!

[SteveC]

But - does they do, or does they don't do digital under win2k?

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[Hunsow]

Again I don't know. I could be yes, since they are for 98/ME/2000, and it would be illogical to assume that they would have removed support for 98.

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[fds]

New drivers?

They seem to be older than those released by Creative with the LW3 for Win2k update.

Gateway: 5.12.1.3041
Creative LW2 W2k: 5.12.1.3107

[High_Jumbllama]

I tried them and they seemed to have a limitation with the number of channels it could use. Not like Star Trek Armada is a gem of code or anything, but it was dropping many more sounds when I was playing with the new drivers and would only play the first half second of most sounds in DX games not to mention dsound.dll disappeared from DXDiag in the file list area.

Note, I was using ME so it may be related to that. I just reverted back to the liveware 3 drivers.

FYI
DxDiag is located in c:\windows\system in ME.