moijk wrote:

But to the point. was it any games where the sb live actually made a difference? Or did I just get a soundcard just because I wanted it? 😜

Of course. All the early games that utilized EAX 1.0 or EAX 2.0 sound better with your Live!:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_EAX_support
I think you should definitely try e.g. Unreal Tournament with the EAX pack from Creative:
https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Essential_files

Also in case of early Win9x games that still used Midi for music (e.g. original Age of Empires) you can get much better quality music by using the hardware SF2 synth of SB Live! with some nice GM/GS Soundfont.

Ideally you would also use the Win9x VXD drivers like Liveware 3. I've found the WDM drivers sometimes don't sound right with the 1998-2000 Win9x era EAX games. Glitches in EAX environment changes for example.

Some other cards like those that use Sensaura or QSound do EAX pretty well too. It is very subjective as to what sounds "better" because they really just sound different. Unless of course there are obvious glitches of some sort with the sound.

If you want your Live! to sound even better, install the Audigy drivers on it. Of course you have to do the driver install manually after extracting the files from the Audigy driver installer, but it does work. They fixed a lot of issues in the Audigy drivers as well as increased the output quality a fair amount.