I have WinXP, however these don't seem to the drivers I had bundled with my OS. (Sorry Can't Verify) I installed LiveWare3 because the default drivers were very buggy with my volume controls. Then I upgraded to 3300. Now, here's the kicker, I have a SMP machine (Dual 800Mhz PentiumIIIs) I could not use EAX before because I would freeze up or get a BSOD. Now however, with these drivers... and WinXP... IT WORKS! NO MORE CRASHES AND EAX ACTUALLY WORKS!! :)

I wonder if the results are the same with Win2k!!

contributed by Ivano

June 30, 2001

This driver works fine with my ASUS CUV4X-E (with audio on board). I can apply realtime effect (EA), but the surround mixer and the speaker setup don't work (Plugin Error Message).
With this version the hybernate function works fine (with 3213 the computer hangs on blanck screen)

contributed by Sam Morris

June 29, 2001

Two quick notes:
* The card's output still skips when playing MP3s in Winamp, among others, but not as much as with previous drivers;
* The bug where sound is only played on the right-hand speaker after hibernation has been FIXED (I'm using Win2k).

~Sam

contributed by C SCOTT (Lammypie)

June 26, 2001

been using the v3300 drivers in win2k. on SBLive Platinum with LiveDrive2.
Best Drivers Yet. Not much difference to 3219, but less crackle and pop syndrome.
3219 was the best improvement from the official drivers as they fixed my hibernation problems. 3300 also retain the hibernation fix.

contributed by Carl Huby

June 24, 2001

The new 3300 drivers are the ones ripped from the latest winxp beta, they installed perfectly over 3219 in win2000 using the updrv2k.exe.

They did cause crackling in the sound on some web pages but this stopped when I set 'delay transaction' to disabled in the bios.

I've heard reports on the creative newsgroups that AC3 works perfectly through these in win2000 finally.. seems creative are working hard to get proper MS certification in time for XP, as they only ever managed the lowest basic certification in 2000.

WinME and 98 have been having eax and sound problems using these, so they may be more NT optimized than previos WDM drivers.

Regards,
Carl.

contributed by Corduroy

June 23, 2001

WDM 3300, Liveware 5.1, Win98SE

Install worked fine as described on the download page (SHS). However, changing the soundfonts in AudioHQ/Soundfontmanager would not work, the computer would freeze, no matter how small the soundfont I loaded was.

I looked through the installed files and found that sfman.sys and sfman32.dll seem to be broken. I replaced both files with WDM version from the WDM 3219 driver sets and everything works like a charm.

(Note: sfman32.dll is obviously damaged in the 3300 download archive, because it is the same version number like sfman32.dll in the 3219 archive, but only half the size, 59 compared to 118kb)

contributed by Paz Tichover

June 23, 2001

I Had WDM drivers version 3219 which make the AC3 Passthrough work with both WinDVD and PowerDVD. But since I have a dual board (BP6) I still had the SMP problems. Heard that WDM 3300 solves some SMP problems, so had to try.

After installing the new WDM 3300 AC3 Passthrough broke again both in PowerDVD and WinDVD. SMP problems were still there - so actualy the new driver only caused problems. I installed the 3219 Version back and AC3 Passthrough came back on.

So, it seems the new version is worse then 3219.

contributed by Stefano Galante

June 22, 2001

Hi! Installing the new 3300 WDM drivers messed up all my system. After manually recovering all the files from the old drivers (WDM 3213), I tried another procedure to use the new drivers: using a boot disk, from dos, copy only the new "emu10k1f.sys" in C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS overwriting the old file... that works!!! And the loud volume that I heard each time I started Windows is now gone!!!
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Windows version: Windows ME
I'm using a Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer 5.1 Retail

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