Creative Live sound card VISTA Drivers

[pasanlaksiri]

Creative Live sound card VISTA Drivers

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A trip over to Creative's website was worthless. No drivers were currently available for my card and I got the impression they weren't going to waste the effort.

Creative also has listed that there is no development planeed for the Live! series of sound cards,

Creative are pathetic . I won't buy any more products from a company that can't support downword products - lesson learned.

Anyway this is a modded driver

http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=20

That way is working perfectly for me >>>>>>

And this is an alternate way of getting a working driver from the *official* installer:

* Get LiveDrvUni-Pack(ENG).exe from Creative's web site
* Run the installer, it will display the checking CRC window
* It will then tell you it can't find an SB card - oh yeah? Leave the dialog alone, we need it there for the moment
* Owing to the magic way the installer works it has already unpacked all the driver files onto your hard disk, as soon as the installer exits it will delete them - so don't let that installer exit yet
* Open an Explorer window, navigate to %USER%\AppData\Local\Temp and look for the most recently created directory (mine was called CRF000. There will be an Audio\Drivers directory under it, navigate to this directory. (BTW substitute %USER% with your user name)
* Copy the path from the path bar at the top of your Explorer window.
* Now open the Device Manager (Windows key+Break), select the 'unknown audio' device, right click and then select 'Update Driver Software' and then 'Browse my computer for software'.
* Now paste the path to the driver into the text box and press next. The driver should now install. That's it!

Now you can close the installer window. You now should have a working Live! soundcard.

Hope this helps someone else enjoy Vista with full fidelity.

 

[Anusha]

Creative's driver support for Vista sucks like hell! (that's what I heard from others). I mean, just imagine; they have the best audio cards for PCs. They have to do way better than this on their drivers department.

 

[tckrockz]

macho w8 until Vista is Officially released 2 da public on da 30th n seee
den dey should develop drivers 2 keep up dere business ne

 

[Anusha]

macho w8 until Vista is Officially released 2 da public on da 30th n seee
den dey should develop drivers 2 keep up dere business ne

Does this mean that no business is supposed to have a PC with a creative card installed? Vista Business and Enterprise Editions are already released ne.

 

[tckrockz]

dude

Does this mean that no business is supposed to have a PC with a creative card installed? Vista Business and Enterprise Editions are already released ne.

i mean nt dat way if creative want 2 sell dere Sound Card dey hav 2 release drivers ne . dude is it released 2 da public u cn go 2 any shop in US n buy it

 

[Anusha]

i mean nt dat way if creative want 2 sell dere Sound Card dey hav 2 release drivers ne . dude is it released 2 da public u cn go 2 any shop in US n buy it

But, you can't expect them to release the first good drivers like that! They have to do a lot of beta testing, just like the video card manufacturers are doing. They have been releasing beta drivers for a while now. They are not complete yet...not even close!

 

[tckrockz]

dnt knw

But, you can't expect them to release the first good drivers like that! They have to do a lot of beta testing, just like the video card manufacturers are doing. They have been releasing beta drivers for a while now. They are not complete yet...not even close!

ya i dnt use a creative sound card or Vista ryt nw so no probz here
ya i agree bt itz da bad news of da ppl hu r usin da sound card

 

[Anusha]

Good for me that I'm not using a Creative card.

 

[zCexVe]

The drivers r a main problem for me to use vista.And too I use onboard sound which is Creative SB Audigy 2 SE.They dont have driver support for that even in their website .So I will have 2 wait till MSI give me a best

 

[pasanlaksiri]

But, you can't expect them to release the first good drivers like that! They have to do a lot of beta testing, just like the video card manufacturers are doing. They have been releasing beta drivers for a while now. They are not complete yet...not even close!

Yep. Because those modded drivers r working. But not like originals.

 

[pasanlaksiri]

Good for me that I'm not using a Creative card.

INTEL ONBOARD CRAPS

 

[pasanlaksiri]

The drivers r a main problem for me to use vista.And too I use onboard sound which is Creative SB Audigy 2 SE.They dont have driver support for that even in their website .So I will have 2 wait till MSI give me a best

Ethakan modded driver eka use karapan. Machan matanam Intel lage onboard sound cards pennanna baha.

 

[Anusha]

INTEL ONBOARD CRAPS

Well, it's like getting a normal car for free, which will have all the spare parts so that you can get it repaired if it encounters an accident, or buying a Ferrari for Rs.500 lakhs which wouldn't have any spare part around in case it faces with the same accident. Remember, you have to drive both on the same road (analogous to the speakers). Which one would you prefer, if the country in subject is Sri Lanka?

 

[zCexVe]

A Lambhorghini for sure which undertakes repairs themselves or a Aston Martin may be
And thus remember,sound cards doesn't get accidents,they only fry or driver crashes..just the driver not the car

 

[pasanlaksiri]

Well, it's like getting a normal car for free, which will have all the spare parts so that you can get it repaired if it encounters an accident, or buying a Ferrari for Rs.500 lakhs which wouldn't have any spare part around in case it faces with the same accident. Remember, you have to drive both on the same road (analogous to the speakers). Which one would you prefer, if the country in subject is Sri Lanka?

Ok ok now u mean that onboard sound card is good kiyalane.

Machan matanam eke sounds hodatama madi.

And u cant compair normal 10 Sri car with Onboard Sounds

 

[Anusha]

Maybe your motherboard's APU is too old. You can't compare a Creative Soundblaster Live card with an X-Fi. Newer motherboards have better APUs than the ones that came out two years ago. Quality wise, they are not as good as X-Fi's, but most of them are better than a Live!