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Sound Blaster Live VXD drivers red book support

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First post, by stealthjoe

Posted on 2021-01-04, 04:56

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Hello,

I am planning to get a Sound Blaster Live card (SB0100) for my PC. As per phils page on the SB live review, he mentioned about VXD drivers being better than WDM in windows 98. My query is that would using VXD drivers for live disable red book support (i.e. no CD audio support for mixed mode games) under win 98 SE similar to other PCI cards? If so, is there a way to get CD audio working using VXD drivers for SB0100? Thanks.

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Reply 1 of 3, by Joseph_Joestar

Posted on 2021-01-04, 09:29

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If we're talking about real hardware (a physical CD-ROM drive) then VxD drivers will work just fine. You will need an internal CD audio cable to connect your drive to the CD_IN header on the SBLive and that's it.

On the other hand, if you mean CD emulation software like Daemon Tools, that's a whole different can of worms.

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Reply 2 of 3, by stealthjoe

Posted on 2021-01-04, 09:52

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Hello Joseph_Joestar! So the understanding is that SB live VXD drivers wont work with mixed mode CDs unless using a physical CDROM cable. In the case of using Daemon tools, is there any other way apart from WDM drivers for SB live? (WDM for SB live seem to be underrated).

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Reply 3 of 3, by Joseph_Joestar

Posted on 2021-01-04, 10:14

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I don't have much personal experience with Daemon Tools, so someone else will have to chime in on that. I tried it a couple of times, mostly in an effort to reduce drive noise, but I just couldn't get CD audio to work reliably through emulation.

Nowadays, I just use physical media and a real drive. I get rid of the noise by slowing the drive down to 4x speed using Nero CD/DVD speed under Win98 and CDBeQuiet under pure DOS.

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