Soundblaster Live / lock settings?


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Quick ques guys. i have a Soundblaster gamer 5.1 which i have for about a year, card only gives me one prob, it has more snap crackle pop than my cereal..lol. i have tried all the fixes out there and i have the latest drivers creative is floating around.

Funny thing is i think i figured out the problem. the reason it cracks and pop is cause of the surround mixer. Example i set the wave balance to about 70% and the master volume to about 70% and adjust the volume via my speakers and wala the snap crackle pop is gone.

now here is the question, is there any way to lock those settings, (the dis-associate speaker setting tab doesnt work, still changes)

cause if i go to a site or play a game or for that matter reboot sometimes that wave balance jumps back to 100% as well as the master volume on its own thus giving me the annoying popping.

any help would be great.

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Did you get the new drivers, they came out a couple of days ago. If no follow this--->Ok, for a long time I`ve been looking over diferent forums and sites for a solution to this. The other day I decided to change mi SbLive! MP3+ from PCI3 to PCI5 (which fisically shares the IRQ with my HPT raid controller) and since then no cracking is generated anymore!

My mp3 music runs smoothly as it does over 98se!

BTW, I used to change all values in my BIOS (I have a Abit Kt7-raid) with no luck. The only thing which improved but did not fixed it completely was setting PCI Latency=0

ACPI was allways ON. All cards use the same IRQ.

Hope this works for you too!

Good Luck!

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If you don't use a live drive.....the new drivers are great. I think they're going to re-release them because of the live drive issues. We'll have to wait and see........took them this long to get it working good.

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