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Technically this should be in the other PC forum, but seeing as you guys are far more into this technical stuff for gaming I figured it wsa the best place to ask.
My PC, running Windows XP, came with a Soudblaster Live 5.1 Digital Card - definitely a card and not onboard as it has all the connections and they are in the place for a card.
Under Windows XP Device Manager, where it lists everything you have in the PC and the driver, the driver is simply "Creative Soundblaster Live Driver (WDM)".
Now I know WDM stands for Windows Driver Model, a generic type of driver yes ?
So, I go to creative's site, download the new proper drivers, install and get as far as setup with the message;
"Creative Soundblaster Live Setup could not detect and Soundblast Hardware on your system. Please check before trying setup again."
This then screws the existing driver which has to be reinstalled.
I've tried using update driver, removing the driver and restarting, everything !
Anyone else got a similar configuration and actually updated the driver ?
My PC, running Windows XP, came with a Soudblaster Live 5.1 Digital Card - definitely a card and not onboard as it has all the connections and they are in the place for a card.
Under Windows XP Device Manager, where it lists everything you have in the PC and the driver, the driver is simply "Creative Soundblaster Live Driver (WDM)".
Now I know WDM stands for Windows Driver Model, a generic type of driver yes ?
So, I go to creative's site, download the new proper drivers, install and get as far as setup with the message;
"Creative Soundblaster Live Setup could not detect and Soundblast Hardware on your system. Please check before trying setup again."
This then screws the existing driver which has to be reinstalled.
I've tried using update driver, removing the driver and restarting, everything !
Anyone else got a similar configuration and actually updated the driver ?
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Practical Magic wrote:
> http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?
> board.id=dim_audio&message.id=39953
>
> The answer, if anyone has a Dell and Soundblaster Live 5.1 then read
> on, you don't actually have Soundblaster 5.1 ....B&stards :(
>
> I've emailed customer support to complain, the card is useless as
> Creative do not support it and it's the only aspect I've not been
> happy with - sound drop outs, EAX barely works in games etc
>
> Unless they offer to sort it I'll have to go out and buy a decent
> card, which seeing as I paid an extra £40 to have that in the
> first place I'm getting to the point where I wish I'd just gone down
> SR in the first place...
Thank god i got a Audigy 2 but dont look at it negatively it isnt really a great card with XP to be honest ... at least the computers working o_O
> http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?
> board.id=dim_audio&message.id=39953
>
> The answer, if anyone has a Dell and Soundblaster Live 5.1 then read
> on, you don't actually have Soundblaster 5.1 ....B&stards :(
>
> I've emailed customer support to complain, the card is useless as
> Creative do not support it and it's the only aspect I've not been
> happy with - sound drop outs, EAX barely works in games etc
>
> Unless they offer to sort it I'll have to go out and buy a decent
> card, which seeing as I paid an extra £40 to have that in the
> first place I'm getting to the point where I wish I'd just gone down
> SR in the first place...
Thank god i got a Audigy 2 but dont look at it negatively it isnt really a great card with XP to be honest ... at least the computers working o_O
Yea i had this clan mate with some live problems had to use onboard instead.
§niper wrote:
> Think the sound problems are with XP and Creative drivers or something
> though... I'm happy with my machine though but i have a Audigy 2.
Think only older stuff was a bit dodgy. I had a Soundblaster 1024 that was dodgy on XP as you couldnt ultlize 4 speakers. New drivers came out and it was sorted.
I personnaly am happy with my onboard sound as it features full 5.1 or even 6.1 hardware coding. Got optical out and the normal phono leads. Actually they tested it against the Audigy and they said it was just as good, only thing you dont get is EAX but that doesnt bother me.
Thinking of getting a 5.1 Speaker set, will have to get one with a 5.1 decoder as I want to use it with my stand alone DVD player which I think may have a decoder built in, but the PS2 and XBox certainly don't.
> Think the sound problems are with XP and Creative drivers or something
> though... I'm happy with my machine though but i have a Audigy 2.
Think only older stuff was a bit dodgy. I had a Soundblaster 1024 that was dodgy on XP as you couldnt ultlize 4 speakers. New drivers came out and it was sorted.
I personnaly am happy with my onboard sound as it features full 5.1 or even 6.1 hardware coding. Got optical out and the normal phono leads. Actually they tested it against the Audigy and they said it was just as good, only thing you dont get is EAX but that doesnt bother me.
Thinking of getting a 5.1 Speaker set, will have to get one with a 5.1 decoder as I want to use it with my stand alone DVD player which I think may have a decoder built in, but the PS2 and XBox certainly don't.
Think the sound problems are with XP and Creative drivers or something though... I'm happy with my machine though but i have a Audigy 2.
http://delltalk.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message? board.id=dim_audio&message.id=39953
The answer, if anyone has a Dell and Soundblaster Live 5.1 then read on, you don't actually have Soundblaster 5.1 ....B&stards :(
I've emailed customer support to complain, the card is useless as Creative do not support it and it's the only aspect I've not been happy with - sound drop outs, EAX barely works in games etc
Unless they offer to sort it I'll have to go out and buy a decent card, which seeing as I paid an extra £40 to have that in the first place I'm getting to the point where I wish I'd just gone down SR in the first place...
The answer, if anyone has a Dell and Soundblaster Live 5.1 then read on, you don't actually have Soundblaster 5.1 ....B&stards :(
I've emailed customer support to complain, the card is useless as Creative do not support it and it's the only aspect I've not been happy with - sound drop outs, EAX barely works in games etc
Unless they offer to sort it I'll have to go out and buy a decent card, which seeing as I paid an extra £40 to have that in the first place I'm getting to the point where I wish I'd just gone down SR in the first place...
Lipe wrote:
> How do I find the device manager?
Control Panel --> System, Then if you've got XP, it's under the hardware tab. If not, then it's somewhere around there, but I can't remember where.
> How do I find the device manager?
Control Panel --> System, Then if you've got XP, it's under the hardware tab. If not, then it's somewhere around there, but I can't remember where.
How do I find the device manager?
WDM stands for Windows Driver Model, and is an all-encompassing driver format. WDM is designed to replace VfW by providing a much more flexible way of dealing with drivers. Rather than having specific functions (like "Start capture" and "Grab frame" in VfW), WDM drivers can be extended by supporting standard functions as well as adding their own. This allows WDM to support a standard set of functions, as well as adding functions specific to the particular capture hardware.
WDM is supported by Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP and it is hoped that only a single WDM driver needs to be written for a particular piece of hardware and it will work under all the above versions of Windows. This should end the situations whereby different versions of drivers were available for different versions of Windows.
All this extra flexibility comes at a price, and WDM drivers can be substantially more complex to develop than VfW drivers. Unfortunately, this leads to some problems.
WDM is supported by Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP and it is hoped that only a single WDM driver needs to be written for a particular piece of hardware and it will work under all the above versions of Windows. This should end the situations whereby different versions of drivers were available for different versions of Windows.
All this extra flexibility comes at a price, and WDM drivers can be substantially more complex to develop than VfW drivers. Unfortunately, this leads to some problems.
Erm i think its Windows Media driver ...
Thanks, if no one else says anything I'll give it a go, really trying to avoid tinkering with it but if there is no other way...
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