Modder Unlocks Vista Driver Features on Creative Sound Cards

Solaris17 · Apr 7, 2008

TheGuruStud said:
You wouldn't happen to have his P17 to x-fi audio mod, would you?

I can't seem to find them, since he deleted them.

oh, and the obligatory, kiss my ass creative

id ask kursah here seems he's on to something

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=736751&postcount=41

Kursah · Apr 7, 2008

Solaris17 said:
id ask kursah here seems he's on to something

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/showpost.php?p=736751&postcount=41

All I did was some googling..then one link led to another, that nomoregoatsoup link has a lot of good stuff too...check the RH side under Recent Goat Droppings and Top Posts...I just lucked out, and I hope that users out there can enjoy what Creative doesn't want them to, and if it doesn't work for ya...then at least you tried em out right?

Mussels · Apr 7, 2008

the echo you speak of (barrel underwater) sounds like what SB live users get with default drivers under vista. the only cure was to run anything that wasnt 2.0 or headphones.

Solaris17 · Apr 7, 2008

ya i got it fixed though i installed his modded drivers and i turned off matrix on my %:1 it makes headphones sound better but i rarely use those so all good

shame its a live prob though :shadedshu i think ill move to a new sound card soon anyway.

eidairaman1 · Apr 7, 2008

Solaris17 said:
ya i got it fixed though i installed his modded drivers and i turned off matrix on my %:1 it makes headphones sound better but i rarely use those so all good shame its a live prob though :shadedshu i think ill move to a new sound card soon anyway.

Its not a Live Problem, but Creative Labs Problem cause they are greedy Bastards

pagalms · Apr 7, 2008

Yep, sound is now much cleaner and better. Thanks to Daniel_K and

to Creative.

SpookyWillow · Apr 7, 2008

just installed these and im so happy i now have surround sound

it worked ok for a little while but just decided to stop yesterday so these came at just the right time lol

everything seems to work ok so far but the advanced eq doesn't seem to work too well, you can select different EQ settings but the sound doesn't change.

other than that they are ok

down with creative i say, boo!!!!!!!!

btarunr · Apr 7, 2008

I wouldn't say down with Creative, but their drivers and corporate policies.

They make great hardware which earns bad name only due to poorly written drivers and atrocious end-user support from the manufacturer. The drivers written by DK prove that it's more or less just bad software that has been pulling back Creative, not to forget their flunk-fanatic corporate bosses that make corporate decisions on par with dumb blondes playing chess vs. Kasprov (the public, us).

selway89 · Apr 7, 2008

Well I found an old CT4760 SBLive! card with the yellow digital connector on the back, part of platinum or something like that. With this article appearing I decided to give it ago.
Eitherway I disabled the onboard HDaudio on my ABIT IP35-E, and Im pleasently surprised that the Live! card is working and sounds great

Bass boost where u can set the level and the cut-off level is good

Mussels · Apr 7, 2008

selway89 said:
Well I found an old CT4760 SBLive! card with the yellow digital connector on the back, part of platinum or something like that. With this article appearing I decided to give it ago.
Eitherway I disabled the onboard HDaudio on my ABIT IP35-E, and Im pleasently surprised that the Live! card is working and sounds great

Bass boost where u can set the level and the cut-off level is good

please help. i have a friend with that very live model that he got off me yesterday and the drivers say no card supported. His may be a CT4780, cant remember off the top of my head - did it 'just work' for you?

NamesDontMatter · Apr 7, 2008

check to see if its an oem version dell etc, those have slightly different drivers.

Solaris17 · Apr 7, 2008

Mussels said:
please help. i have a friend with that very live model that he got off me yesterday and the drivers say no card supported. His may be a CT4780, cant remember off the top of my head - did it 'just work' for you?

dont uninstall the drivers.....let windows pick it up then install them it replaces the files windows uses...i had that problem i had a diff card but when i uninstalled the drivers and tried running the exe it said no compatable hardware was found so i let wndows pick it up then i installed again and it worked fine

Mussels · Apr 7, 2008

Solaris17 said:
dont uninstall the drivers.....let windows pick it up then install them it replaces the files windows uses...i had that problem i had a diff card but when i uninstalled the drivers and tried running the exe it said no compatable hardware was found so i let wndows pick it up then i installed again and it worked fine

its not a dell or OEM one as i used to own it, i think its the Live! 5.1 DE (digital entertainment, something like that)

The system has no drivers at all, calls it an unknown PCI device. should he install the ones that dont work (the legit audigy ones with the echo effect) and then these over the top?

NamesDontMatter · Apr 7, 2008

try switching PCI slots? seated correctly?

Solaris17 · Apr 7, 2008

ok heres waht you do...get winrar kk? than downlaod the correct driver as i have mapped out in one of the above posts after you do that...right click and tell winrar to extract the driver to a folder...once the folder is made open up device manger and right click on the "unknown pci device" then click on update driver...when the box comes up dont click let me pick my driver click let me pick my driver from a list..at that point uncheck "show compatable hardware" and click the have disk button then go to the folder you extracted and click on p17.ini and tell it to install...all should be well after this

Mussels · Apr 7, 2008

Solaris17 said:
ok heres waht you do...get winrar kk? than downlaod the correct driver as i have mapped out in one of the above posts after you do that...right click and tell winrar to extract the driver to a folder...once the folder is made open up device manger and right click on the "unknown pci device" then click on update driver...when the box comes up dont click let me pick my driver click let me pick my driver from a list..at that point uncheck "show compatable hardware" and click the have disk button then go to the folder you extracted and click on p17.ini and tell it to install...all should be well after this

i told him to try that, but i didnt know what .ini file to select. will pass this post onto him.

selway89 · Apr 8, 2008

Yeah just worked for me! If its a 24bit card i think he needs to use another driver set...

mysticjon · Apr 8, 2008

yeah it didnt detect my x-fi fatality, i have vista 32bit, hmm. anybody else have the same problem or fixes?

DanishDevil · Apr 8, 2008

It didn't? Damn. OK probably no luck for me, then.

mysticjon · Apr 8, 2008

DanishDevil said:
It didn't? Damn. OK probably no luck for me, then.

yeah i just went and downloaded the drivers off the creative website, apparently they have an update from march so it works fine

BumbRush · Apr 8, 2008

creative shot themselves in the foot by telling him to stop, then he shot them in the other foot by telling everybody what they did to artificialy cripple their older cards in order to force sales of newer cards.......

oh well, i will stick with my onboard, it dosnt have any distortions like some boards, and at least realtek updates their drivers regularly and dosnt remove fetures for no good reasion

Avarice · Apr 8, 2008

Mussels said:
i told him to try that, but i didnt know what .ini file to select. will pass this post onto him.

sooooo i got the drivers installed on the SB Live (EMU10K1) i got off mussels the other day and its detected etc and well im not getting any sound at all.... I've configured all the playback options to use the card, still nothing.

selway89 · Apr 8, 2008

Avarice said:
sooooo i got the drivers installed on the SB Live (EMU10K1) i got off mussels the other day and its detected etc and well im not getting any sound at all.... I've configured all the playback options to use the card, still nothing.

Hmm well I disabled my onboard and installed the CT4760 card, then uninstalled the Realtek software which oddly stopped any sound at all working, after reinstall its working fine.

Id try reinstalling if you already havent done so already.

Avarice · Apr 8, 2008

selway89 said:
Hmm well I disabled my onboard and installed the CT4760 card, then uninstalled the Realtek software which oddly stopped any sound at all working, after reinstall its working fine.

Id try reinstalling if you already havent done so already.

ok so i tried reinstalling them and i got an error saying that REGPLIB.EXE (also got this error last time just forgot to mention it) has stopped working. i don't know if this has something to do with why it isnt working, did anyone else get this error when installing the drivers?

Problem solved..... not quite sure how i done it but it involved lots of trial and error :'(

Solaris17 · Apr 8, 2008

sweet glad you got it to work

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