New Sound Blaster Live Drivers....

smb · Post by **smb** » Mon May 02, 2005 9:59 pm

I was looking for SB live digital 5.1 drivers for about a month. I downloaded Dell's and Creatives, but could not get them to install without the original driver disk. So, I thought I would have to do with onboard sound. I stumbled upon KX Drivers from here. These drivers are excellent. they don't take up the huge amount of cpu cycles, memory or space. If you have a sb live card, I highly recommend these instead. Oh yea, they work great in games, and mp3's sound excellent ( subjective opinion insert).

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue May 03, 2005 3:51 pm

In all seriousness, I would lose the SBLive card.

The onboard audio on any modern mobo made in the last 2 - 3 years will generally perform better, sound just as good, and won't have the IRQ issues the SBLive had.

I wouldn't use an SBLive card as a doorstop... one of the worst mistakes Creative ever made.

Invisible Evil · Post by **Invisible Evil** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:00 pm

I never had a problem with a SBLive, but have heard alot of stuff about these problems.

smb · Post by **smb** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:11 pm

hehehe it's not that bad. Onboard audio is AC '97. My Phillips Acoustic Edge gave up the ghost.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue May 03, 2005 8:41 pm

I'll take AC'97 or CMedia over an SBLive any day.

CaterpillarAssassin · Post by **CaterpillarAssassin** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:09 pm

hey man i loved my sblive! !

Using a turtle beach now. Not a bad card for what I paid for it (dont ask what cuz I dont remember lol, it was cheap tho)

Karchiveur · Post by **Karchiveur** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:26 pm

AOL = SBlive

smb · Post by **smb** » Wed May 04, 2005 9:42 pm

Originally posted by Karchiveur
AOL = SBlive

LOL

Shadow250 · Post by **Shadow250** » Wed May 04, 2005 10:13 pm

i have an sb live and actually it it runs games a lot better then the onboard cmi 8330. i got stuttering sound on a couple games with that. it has no pci irq probs which seems to be the most common one.