soundblaster live 5.1

[Chan Smith]

I got my vista yesturday and toying with the idea of installing it. Does anyone know how to get live 5.1 to work with vista? I also have a deskjet printer that needs drivers. I think I figured out a way to get my logitech to work. I read where you can extract the files and just find the driver in that. Anyones help is nice.

[david_]

Go to creative's website and let their website scan your system for their products. They should have drivers for it

[martym]

From what I understand there will be no eax hardware or 3d sound hardware support in vista, all eax sound will be played through the cpu causing slow downs. You need a x-fi sound card which is the only card that will support eax and the only card that creative will make the driver for. There wii be nor more eax or 3d sound hardware support with sb live 5.1 or audgy cards. the new sound method is now openal in vista and x-fi is only card that will support it

check out site

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/11/28/Vi..._eax_after_all/

Edited January 27, 2007 by martym

[Chan Smith]

That isn't good. I wonder why they went that route for vista? The cpu already has enough to do besides sound. It sounds like they went back to the old days. Why would they revert back? Letting the sound card do the sound is a lot easier on the computer as a whole. arg. I guess I might try to find another company's sound card that works because I am not spending 150 on a creative card when I have one.

From what I understand there will be no eax hardware or 3d sound hardware support in vista, all eax sound will be played through the cpu causing slow downs. You need a x-fi sound card which is the only card that will support eax and the only card that creative will make the driver for. There wii be nor more eax or 3d sound hardware support with sb live 5.1 or audgy cards. the new sound method is now openal in vista and x-fi is only card that will support it

check out site

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/11/28/Vi..._eax_after_all/

[bush]

great, that was my question too.

i too have sb live! 5.1; i've been checking creative website for the past month and still no driver. does that mean, that my microphone won't work? because it doesn't.

also, using xp there was nice option to enhance bass, can't find it in vista. is it hidden somewhere or is it because of the drivers?

[franzon]

I got my vista yesturday and toying with the idea of installing it. Does anyone know how to get live 5.1 to work with vista?

sound blaster live 5.1 drivers are automatically downloaded and installed by windows vista automatic updates. So connect to internet and your sb live 5.1 will work

[ServaCom]

Windows Update detects and downloads a driver, but only stereo, and the mic doesn't work.

Unfortunately Creative will not support Live! Series cards in Vista: Link

I am currently using kx drivers but these give an error on the Gameport driver.

I will try this solution this evening sometime:

http://neosmart.net/blog/2006/vista-sound-drivers/

[franzon]

Windows Update detects and downloads a driver, but only stereo

It's better than nothing.

I always used my SB Live 5.1 in stereo because I've only 2 speakers

[jporter]

So if I understand correctly, my SB Audigy 2 ZS is causing a bit of a slowdown in Vista and will always do that? To solve this is to buy a X-FI?

[p1p3]

If you plan on running 32bit vista check out the kxdrivers:

http://www.driverheaven.net/forumdisplay.p...&forumid=67

And for people saying sound in vista is a step back read:

http://www.thewhippinpost.co.uk/news/vista...r-musicians.htm

There are some exiting new things in the vista sound subsystem. Unfortunatly it breaks hardware aceleration in some games. However for most newer games there will probably be patches or thirdparty fixes and all games currently in development will hopefully take advantage of the advances in vista.

A good example of a thirdparty fix is Alchemy from Creative. There will probably be others but only time will tell.

[ServaCom]

I am now using kxdrivers 3538m and they provide support for 5.1 etc.

I haven't tested microphone support but they are the best so far.

http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?t=128197