Creative Live! Value

[Acidburns]

Has anybody had any luck finding working drivers for a creative Live! value
under Vista? Creative say they won't make them because the card is too old,
and I tried some modded drivers about there but they didn't work...

I have all this great Vista goodness, and no music to get jiggy with!

Thanks

Shaun

 

[Malke]

Has anybody had any luck finding working drivers for a creative Live!
value under Vista? Creative say they won't make them because the card
is too old, and I tried some modded drivers about there but they didn't
work...

I have some notes on getting SBLive! Value to work under Vista. I
haven't tried this, so YMMV:

*****
Get SB Live! cards to work with Vista from a post on the newsgroups (the
"speaker" is the poster):

I came across a method on a blog by a person calling themselves 'I'm mad
as hell'. The reason I'm posting their method here is not only because
it works flawlessly in Vista (32bit) but it also solved for me an issue
I had with the generic SB Live driver where I would lose all sound
coming out of Sleep mode.

You'll need the XP SB Live driver exe called LiveDrvUni-Pack(ENG).exe.
Googling for "LiveDrvUni-Pack(ENG).exe brought several links, including
one at a Creative site so d/l it from there. It is a 23.3MB file. Here
are the steps in his/her own words - follow them to the letter:

1. Get LiveDrvUni-Pack(ENG).exe from Creative's web site

2. Run the installer, it will display the checking CRC window

3. It will then tell you it can't find an SB card - oh yeah? Leave the
dialog alone, we need it there for the moment

4. Owing to the magic way the installer works it has already unpacked
all the driver files onto your hard disk, as soon as the installer exits
it will delete them - so don't let that installer exit yet

5. Open an Explorer window, navigate to %USER%\AppData\Local\Temp and
look for the most recently created directory (mine was called CRF000.
There will be an Audio\Drivers directory under it, navigate to this
directory. (BTW substitute %USER% with your user name)

6. Copy the path from the path bar at the top of your Explorer window.

7. Now open the Device Manager (Windows key+Break), select the 'unknown
audio' device, right click and then select 'Update Driver Software' and then
'Browse my computer for software'.

8. Now paste the path to the driver into the text box and press next.
The driver should now install. That's it!
*****

If this works for you, please let me know by posting back.


Malke

 

[dev]

/Acidburns/ said:

Has anybody had any luck finding working drivers for a creative Live!
value under Vista? Creative say they won't make them because the
card is too old, and I tried some modded drivers about there but they
didn't work...

Creative Live! Value produced sound here in earlier Beta versions
of the O/S, when used with the default drivers that Vista installed.

However, it is an older unsupported card. Audigy 4 is running fine now,
but for its bundled software utilities. Creative has hinted that they
may someday function, but I am not holding my breath.

 

[Acidburns]

Scratch that guys,

Freakishly, I removed the creative files from start-up with defender along
with a plethora of other jump-ins (quicktime, itunes etc), rebooted, and I
noticed no x on my tray speaker... plugged speakers in and pressed it...
ding... pressed it many more times.. ding.. ding. ding.. ding... hahahahaha
hehehehe yippy

Thanks for suggestions

Shaun

 

[Guest]

Has anybody had any luck finding working drivers for a creative Live! value
under Vista? Creative say they won't make them because the card is too old,
and I tried some modded drivers about there but they didn't work...

I have all this great Vista goodness, and no music to get jiggy with!

My old Soundblaster live! has been automatically installed via Windows Update.

 

[Acidburns]

Live! is okay.. only has issues with the Live! Value.

 

[Kurt Herman]

I use as set of modded driver from NGO, and they work great.

You can get them here.....

http://www.ngohq.com

Kurt

 

[Guest]

My computer's a dell, so I had to get their driver.