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Sound blaster live pci driver's?

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First post, by Nic-93

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Where can i find them? i have the pci installed into my old 32 bit computer, its Windows ME.

Reply 1 of 22, by Stiletto

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There's a ton of drivers on VOGONSDrivers?
http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/index.php?catid= … menustate=40,33

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Reply 6 of 22, by QBiN

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IIRC, the big gotcha with SBLive drivers is whether you go with the older VxD based drivers for Windows or the WDM drivers. On mine, I believe I had to use the older drivers to get full functionality

Reply 8 of 22, by alexanrs

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More often than not you get both options with the later packages, but in Windows ME it usually defaults to WDM drivers. I prefer the VxD ones.
My Live! Works great with the LiveWare 3 driver CD

Reply 12 of 22, by Stretch

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I installed from the CD in Win98SE, but the SBLive driver CD installed the WDM driver.

How do you force the VxD driver to install?

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Reply 13 of 22, by alexanrs

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Nic-93 wrote:

Version 3.0 works fantastic with my SB live!
now midi and evreything is there.

Congratz!

Stretch wrote:

I installed from the CD in Win98SE, but the SBLive driver CD installed the WDM driver.

How do you force the VxD driver to install?

You could try installing manually through the device manager.

Reply 14 of 22, by Stretch

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alexanrs wrote:
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Nic-93 wrote:

Version 3.0 works fantastic with my SB live!
now midi and evreything is there.

Congratz!

Stretch wrote:

I installed from the CD in Win98SE, but the SBLive driver CD installed the WDM driver.

How do you force the VxD driver to install?

You could try installing manually through the device manager.

Thanks, but I found out how to on msfn.org http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/115903-compil … ndows-9x/page-2

You have to extract the CD to hard drive, find audio.ini and change use wdm from 1 to 0 on the Win98 and WinME entries.

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Reply 16 of 22, by alexanrs

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You mean OPL? The VxD drivers have OPL emulation, but it sucks. If you need a PCI card for OPL emulation you'll have to go with Yamaha's YMF-724 chip.
If you mean digital sound, the VxD drivers offer SB16 compatibility. The WDM drivers offer the Windows' built in SBPro compatibility.
If you mean MPU-401 UART, yeah it does.

Reply 17 of 22, by Stretch

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Here is a screenshot from the device manager. I will try tomorrow to see how it sounds.

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