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First post, by gladders

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Hi all,

I've got the standard Live drivers running fine in W98 but Daemon Tools won't play music on games, which is a known problem I understand. Hence WDM drivers apparently being better for Daemon Tools.

So I downloaded the WDM drivers from the Vogons database, but where do I put them, exactly? I've put them in the Creative folder but nothing changes.

Thanks

Reply 1 of 9, by deleted_nk

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To use the WDM drivers, you'll need to completely remove all traces of the old VXD drivers (both from the Inf folder and from device manager) and then use device manager to install the drivers.

Just a word of warning with the WDM drivers though, they do take a bit of a performance hit on 98, making things noticeably slower if you've got a slower rig.

Reply 3 of 9, by gladders

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I'm having problems, folks.

I've tried downloading these purported Windows 98 WDM Drivers for SBLive! http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … menustate=42,35 but upon extracting the Readme says they're for 2000 and XP.

Indeed installing them does nothing.

Reply 5 of 9, by gladders

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My model of Live! is CT4620, which I can't find specific WDM drivers for.

I tried the CD you linked to. Letting the CD do its own thing resulted in no changes - no sound at all. Manually going through Add Hardware, I wasn't really sure where to go on the disk, but presume W9xdrv folder would be it. A ton of drivers came up, not sure which to choose, picked one at random, it complained they're not meant for this card, forced it, they installed, and I have sound but still no music in games.

Reply 8 of 9, by Stretch

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gladders wrote:

I've discovered this: http://kxproject.com/

Do you think this might be a reasonable workaround?

No, just stay with VxD drivers. Daemon tools has an option to route the analog audio to the sound card.

Win 11 - Intel i7-1360p - 32 GB - Intel Iris Xe - Sound BlasterX G5

Reply 9 of 9, by gladders

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Stretch wrote:
gladders wrote:

I've discovered this: http://kxproject.com/

Do you think this might be a reasonable workaround?

No, just stay with VxD drivers. Daemon tools has an option to route the analog audio to the sound card.

It does? Can you show a how-to?