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for Windows 9x & Windows NT
Live!Ware are the huge updates that Creative releases once
in a long time that improves the underlying drivers, applications like
the mixer and other little enhancements.
Latest Driver Update
Released On: 3 May 2000
- Updated version of Surround Mixer 1.0 and AudioHQ
- 1024-voice software MIDI synth
- Improved support for Occlusion and Obstruction effects in EAX2.0
Older Driver Patch
Released On: 1 December 1999
- Improves the Obstruction and Occlusion effects in the game, Rogue
Spear.
- Improves the effects mix in some EAX games, including the following
games: Shogo, Blood 2 and Slave Zero.
- Improves SB Live! compatibility with some versions of Intel's PIII
600MHz and above processors.
- Improves the EAX performance in the game, Nocturne.
- Enables SoundFont bank settings to be saved after reboot.
- Improves compatibility with the game, Revenant.
Latest Live!Ware Release
Version: 3.0
Released On: 20 October 1999
This version adds the following main features to the applications.
The sound engine is not upgraded and is similar to the one released
in Live!Ware 2.
- Live!Task for computer novices
- a new look for the Surround Mixer
- a neat EAX demo
- updated PlayCenter with Time-Scaling
The following apps are not available in the download
version. You have to buy the CD and its only available in certain areas.
- Creative Digital Audio Center (Lite Version)
- Creative Wavestudio 4
- Creative Recorder Soft Karaoke
- Sound Blaster Live! Experience
- MiniDisc Center
- EMU General MIDI banks
- Demo MIDI clips
- LAVA! MV3 samples
- MP3 clips
- Standard 30 SoundFont banks
- 25-50 SoundFont banks (>1000 instruments)
Previous Live!Ware Releases
Version: 2.1
Released On: 3 July 1999
- Improves the audio quality of razorjack weapon in Unreal SE game
- Rear speaker distortion sound when CMSS is turned on has been improved
- Half Life frame rate has been improved
- Enables WinAmp 2.10 to function properly on Windows NT 4.0
- Corrupted game presets in the Surround Mixer folder have been updated
- In-game volume mixer slider in some games now functions properly
Live!Ware 2.x is a major update
which brings about improvements to the sound engine and the apps for the
SBLive! Here are some of them:
- enhanced 3D positioning, including the up/down axis
- 80 game presets
- EAX 2.0 property sets
- 1024 PCI wavetable voices
- new AudioHQ
- Surround Mixer
- Auto EA Presets
- upgraded SBLive! Experience
- upgraded PlayCenter
Certain applications are only available in the CD version
which you have to purchase from Creative. The important components are
available for download. Check out the link below to see a list of the
differences.
Your Feedback
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I have an Asus P2B-DS with dual PIIIs. I don't have any issues with my SBLive. I'm using the May 3, 2000 NT drivers. I'm not sure what areas have problems but sound isn't my priority except in games and there's no issues there either. I play Quake III with SMP enabled and my sound still works. Of course you don't get EAX in NT4 but who cares about EAX?
When I installed Win2K, the sound also worked with and so was EAX. However, I did assign an interrupt to the PCI slot and the Win2K computer setup was "MPS Multiprocessor PC" and not "ACPI Multiprocessor PC" -- You check this in the device manager Computer section. Then again, could be my motherboard's unique -- the ACPI support is incomplete so I can't use it in Win2K.
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