Why do you want SB Live?

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Why do you want SB Live?

I don't know, I've heard that they are good and cheap

Pick Audigy/Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS. Live cards are obsolete in every way.

This is exactly the same as what I think. The best SB Live is an Audigy2 ZS 🤣

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Pick Audigy/Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS. Live cards are obsolete in every way.

Thank you!
And is there any specific Audigy 2 version that is better than others.
And how about drivers? Is it hard to find them?

Audigy 2 and Audigy 2 ZS are both ok I guess. I prefer ZS (for no apparent reason). Drivers are available in vogons driver library IIRC. If not, I have the original CDs from my ZS, just tell me if you need them.

I will also just say if you decide to go with a Live! 5.1 you can find the drivers on the Vogons driver library.

http://vogonsdrivers.com/

The VXD driver is preferable for performance and stability, but the WDM drivers allow for Soundfont changes in DOS.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Pick Audigy/Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS. Live cards are obsolete in every way.

Will you guys please QUIT picking on my lame hardware choices? I would've used onboard sound for my 9x system instead of an SB Live!, but the shitty SoundMax codec on my system lacks DirectSound and its 9x driver is unstable as hell, I'd rather use an SB Live! (or even an Esoniq AudioPCI) than that monstrosity.

It's comments like this that make me wish I had joined VCF instead of this stupid forum.

KCompRoom2000 wrote:

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Pick Audigy/Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS. Live cards are obsolete in every way.

Will you guys please QUIT picking on my lame hardware choices? I would've used onboard sound for my 9x system instead of an SB Live!, but the shitty SoundMax codec on my system lacks DirectSound and its 9x driver is unstable as hell, I'd rather use an SB Live! (or even an Esoniq AudioPCI) than that monstrosity.

It's comments like this that make me wish I had joined VCF instead of this stupid forum.

I ordered Sound Blaster Live 5.1 SB0100 in the end.
Don't know why, i just like that it came from 90s.

The Serpent Rider wrote:

Pick Audigy/Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS. Live cards are obsolete in every way.

This may be a problem with particular card, but my Audigy makes three THUMP noises in the speakers the moment I turn on the PC, and even a bigger THUMP! when I turn it off (perhaps those same three noises just merged together). SB Live does not do that in the same PC.

And Live is physically smaller in my already cramped chassis, so that's one thing where it's better than Audigy.

Do a google search on drivers for 5.1 from Phil’s computer lab.
He has DOS drivers.
As for Windows drivers go to creative labs website and look up old discontinued sound cards in support.
DELL also has drivers for the DELL version of this card SB-200
SB-100 is the Creative version.

I have a couple of CDs for two different Live! 5.1 cards myself and I'm willing to archive them as an ISO format for the two different sound cards.

The Live! 5.1 Platinum driver set has both MS-DOS (requires HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE to be loaded) and Windows drivers, as well as extras, such as the IR Drive (remote control program), dialing numbers (modem needed), SoundFont editing program, and so on, and the other Live! 5.1 card is just the drivers only. If needed, I can archive that as well.

I'll provide the sound blaster revisions on here and put them in appropriate folders for those specific sound cards.

CT4830 (Soundblaster Live, known as SOundblaster 1024).
This one has also in its install the DOS drivers (SB16 emulation, but without MIDI) and win98se drivers.

Audigy LS and Soundblaster 24bit, have not win98se and DOS drivers. So, the same thing with
other those CA0106 chip based soundblasters! ?

through various sources some weird cards have come around me : SB0060, SB0100, SB0200.
Besides some layout difference and couple connectors different position there is minor difference compared to
CT4830

[edit] AFAIK the only one which can use Soundblaster Audigy under DOS is the last MPXPLAY version.
1.62 version (without any drivers).

Audigy2 has a same DSP like Audigy except P16V registers which are necessary to play DVD Audio honest 96 kHz. And 6.1/7.1 support. All these options are empty for Windows 98, you never use them. Therefore best choice for 98 is SB0160 model with gameport and without firewire.

bjwil1991 wrote:

I have a couple of CDs for two different Live! 5.1 cards myself and I'm willing to archive them as an ISO format for the two different sound cards.

The Live! 5.1 Platinum driver set has both MS-DOS (requires HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE to be loaded) and Windows drivers, as well as extras, such as the IR Drive (remote control program), dialing numbers (modem needed), SoundFont editing program, and so on, and the other Live! 5.1 card is just the drivers only. If needed, I can archive that as well.

I'll provide the sound blaster revisions on here and put them in appropriate folders for those specific sound cards.

Were you able to archive and upload the aforementioned driver discs?

Not yet. Haven't had the time so far due to stress and working late 5 days a week.