Old Sound Blaster Live Resurrected & Working in Win7!!! NO REVERB!!!

[Darryl Licht]

Old Sound Blaster Live Resurrected & Working in Win7!!! NO REVERB!!!

For anyone who has an old Sound Blaster Live or similar soundcards laying around, I found a developement project for drivers for these older cards and many others that Creative has chosen to drop support of long ago (2003).

I was tearing apart an old PIII dinosaur I built in 1999, and decided to install the old Sound Blaster Live PCI card into my Win7 shop PC to replace the mobo sound for better tunes. I got the old Creative Lab XP drivers to install using Win7's XPSP2 compatibility, and it sounded great until I rebooted my shop PC.

Once I rebooted, I had a constant reverb that couldnt be turned off, none of the Creative apps would run. So I seached the net looking for solutions; and found the KX Project for these older cards. After a small struggle configuring their new WDM driver... My ears couldnt be happier!

This is an independent development project, focused on providing free WDM Audio Drivers for kX-Compatible sound cards.

Matter of fact, their website Official kX Project Site -- News claims that they support KX-compatible soundcards including all EMU10k1 and EMU10k2-based PC soundcards manufactured by Creative Technology Ltd. and/or E-mu Systems Inc., including:

The E-mu Audio Production Studio (APS) card
The motherboard models of 10k1 cards (M002, M003 and others)
PCI256 (CT4890, CT4891 and CT4893) and PCI512 (CT4820 and SB0150) including OEM model (CT4790)
The original Live! (CT4620) and Live! Value cards (CT4670)
The Live! X-Gamer, Live! MP3+, Live! Player 1024, Live! Platinum cards (CT4760) and value cards (CT4780)
The Live! X-Gamer 5.1, Live! MP3+ 5.1, Live! Player 5.1, Live! Platinum 5.1, Live! Digital Entertainment 5.1 cards (SB0060, SB0100, SB0102, SB0220, SB0222, SB0103 and SB0105) and Value 5.1 (SB0101)
The generic and custom OEM Live cards (CT4830, CT4831, CT4832, CT4850, CT4870, CT4871 and CT4872)
The Audigy series, including the Audigy MP3+, X-Gamer, Platinum and OEM cards (CT0070, CT0072, SB0090 and SB0092).
The Audigy 2 series, including Gamer, Platinum, Platinum eX and OEM cards (SB0242, SB0244, SB0320, SB0240, SB0240P, SB0280).
The Audigy 2 ZS series, including Audigy 2 ZS Gamer, Platinum and OEM cards (SB0350).

 

[solarmystic]

Thanks for the info Darryl Licht, may it help others with dinosaurs for graphics cards.....

One of the great misfortunes of how the sound stack works in Windows Vista/7 is that hardware accelerated audio has been rendered largely irrelevant, requiring messy workarounds to get EAX and and other hardware accelerated sound effects working...

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