SB live - Audigy 2

[Rebel=UK=]

was loooking around going to buy a Audigy 2 and found this:

Turn you Creative sound Balster live! 2 Soud Blaster Audigy

1) Go to device manager.

2) Go to audio device/gameport.

3) Remove SBLive! WDM Basic Device.

4) Remove Gameport for SBLive!.

5) Backup wdma10k1.inf to wdma10k1.inf.old.

6) Backup wdma10k1.pnf to wdma10k1.pnf.old.

7) Install official Audigy driver, and select "no" when prompted for "uninstalling driver".

8) Restart.

9) System reports that "New audio hardware is found", select "Do not install driver automatically"! System reports "New gameport device found", select "Do not install driver automatically"!

10) Run the Audigy beta driver:

UDA_betaUDA_betaAudioEnglishdriversCTZAPXX.exe, select "Install WDM driver".

11) Restart, everything okay except the sound font manager.

12) Copy the sfman32.dll from the "common" directoy of the Audigy driver disc, boot to DOS or other version of windows (or safe mode?), then copy the sfman32.dll to "System32" directory of Windows.

13) Restart, everything okay, all functionality!

The conclusion by that guy is that Audigy is just the old core with new manufacture method (thus different chip size, etc.) with 24-bit playback DAC and 1394 interface. He also hypothesized that Creative have their stock dropping a lot earlier last year and a lot of people are criticizing that their R&D is too slow, so they just make Audigy which is(?) based on the same old core while advertising it as "with a lot of whole new technology and functionality".

http://file2.mydrivers.com/sound/UDA_beta.zip

http://www.reactorcritical.com/download.shtml

http://www.nvidia.com.pl/download.html?Programy

Think it would work?

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What are you hoping to achieve Rebel?

I guess you are a gamer, in which case it might be worth a try. Only do make a FULL backup of your system before you play around with Creative drivers. They are notoriously troublesome.

I have an Audigy Platinum eX - had it for some time now. Cost me a fortune when I bought it. Over the years I tried out different drivers and such (KX), but never succeeded in gaining anything. So I went back to my original settings and drivers - it worked and all these other drivers just messed me up.

Anyway, I think yours is worth a try, yes. But make sure you can put things back as they were.. Good Luck with it. B)