New Microsoft WDM drivers for Win98...

[windowman]

Re: Re: Re: Hmmm...

What do you mean by ASP drivers?

If you are using the drivers off the Installation CD you should check out the drivers on the Creative website. They were posted in the last couple of months.

That's correct, whatever the drivers are that it installs are what I'm using. I was at Creative's SB Live site just a couple of days ago and didn't read anything about a driver update for my card (it's only a year old. I have the 5.0 version; the 5.1 is out now but it doesn't seem to have anything new about it except for some options that gamers might like so I guess I'm using the best driver they currently have.

You know, I've always assumed that when installing any software that either it or Windows would auto-sellect the best driver for my system. A lot of times you'll get a pop-up mesage saying that a file or driver you have on your system is "newer" than the one you're trying to install so the process seems fairly intuitive to me. I don't know though....

But like I said, the ASP driver is the only other alternative I have to what I'm now using I think and I don't seem to need it. (Besides, technically speaking it's an illegal hack.)

What I'd like to know is excatly WHAT driver SB Live 5.X uses? Do they even have a driver of their own or do they just use WDM? According to Cakewalk it appears they use WDM but I couldn't find any info on that at the Creative website.

 

[AlChuck]

You must mean the APS drivers. (The Emu Audio Production Studio is essentially the same hardware as the SB Live, and you can get those drivers to work with an SB Live failry easily. They have low-latency ASIO drivers for Cubase, etc.)

I never heard of ASP drivers. ASP (Active Server Pages) for web servers, sure; and Cleopatra was killed by the bite of an asp...

 

[brzilian]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Hmmm...

That's correct, whatever the drivers are that it installs are what I'm using. I was at Creative's SB Live site just a couple of days ago and didn't read anything about a driver update for my card (it's only a year old. I have the 5.0 version; the 5.1 is out now but it doesn't seem to have anything new about it except for some options that gamers might like so I guess I'm using the best driver they currently have.

You know, I've always assumed that when installing any software that either it or Windows would auto-sellect the best driver for my system. A lot of times you'll get a pop-up mesage saying that a file or driver you have on your system is "newer" than the one you're trying to install so the process seems fairly intuitive to me. I don't know though....

But like I said, the ASP driver is the only other alternative I have to what I'm now using I think and I don't seem to need it. (Besides, technically speaking it's an illegal hack.)

What I'd like to know is excatly WHAT driver SB Live 5.X uses? Do they even have a driver of their own or do they just use WDM? According to Cakewalk it appears they use WDM but I couldn't find any info on that at the Creative website.

Not sure what you mean by version 5.0 and 5.1. The 5.1 in the product name denotes that the card is capable of Dolby Digital 5.1 decoding (5 speaker channels + 1 subwoofer channel).

If you bring up your harware manager , it will tell you the date of your drivers. Mine are dated 1/5/2001 and are from the Soundblaster website. In the hardware manager, my SB Live is listed as SB Live! Value (WDM) - that means it is using WDM drivers. Vendors can write WDM drivers as well - that is not exclusive to the drivers that come with Windows 2000.

I agree with you that Creative Labs should provide more specs on their website as far as driver compatability goes (WDM, ASIO).

 

[windowman]

well...

Not sure what you mean by version 5.0 and 5.1. The 5.1 in the product name denotes that the card is capable of Dolby Digital 5.1 decoding (5 speaker channels + 1 subwoofer channel).

Last years model was 5.0 and now its 5.1. They've got a driver update if you have last years 5.0 but like I said, its just got a few bells and whistles for the gamers/kids.

I will say this however, a lot of people have trouble trying to record at 16/44.1 with it. It seems it just isn't fast enough to dither all the tracks on the fly (since the card can only record at 16/48 by default) so they fall out of sync especially if they're long tracks of 5 minutes or so and recorded in one complete take. It seems the best route to go is to record at 16/48 and then dither down the final product. Trouble is, some of the cheaper software for recording (like Cakewalk Guitar Tracks2) can't record higher than 16/44.1 so your stuck with buying better software or a better card. A young guy on a budget can't win these days....

Oh, I tried to look for my driver (SB wave I assume) and it looks like maybe it's ctmm16.drv; does that seem right?
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Al; yes I mean APS you big wienie!

Actually I always hated the mixer scheme of that crazy thing. I know it was a God-send for the midi guys but it didn't do anything for me but to complicate my life. Besides, I always felt like a thief seeing as how its a hack (though possibly a necessary one for some people.)

 

[Paul881]

Wow, now this would be great! I use Home Studio 2002 with an s/b 5.1 (I thought the 5.1 referred to the Dolby surround sound capability, not the version issue of software/hardware), and a Win 98 o/s. With my set-up, "real time" DXi effects mean unacceptable latency. Hit the keyboard, wait for the sound. Absolutely no good for me. WDM drivers for win 98 and no latency would be a god-send but not in my lifetime - I think. If anyone can tell me that I can use WDM drivers in win 98 to get rid of this delay, I would be overjoyed.

Soooooo....if this is more than just a rumour or urban myth, give us the details, tubedude. Cos I can't find any mention on the M/s site either.