I'm just about fed up with Creative Soundblaster drivers. I don't think I will ever buy another Soundblaster product again (at least not one that requires drivers).
I get lockups while listening to music (or if my sound card is in use somehow) while copying files. It's definitely the drivers.. My soundblaster doesn't even share an IRQ with another device let along have a conflict. When I uninstall the SBLive driver and use the basic XP one, it works fine again.
Straight to the point, my question is does anyone know of a site where I can download previous or beta/leaked versions of Creative Soundblaster Drivers? I thought I had my old ones that worked fine, but I realized I must have not had them backed up so the only drivers for Windows XP I have are the new, crappy ones.
Anyway, I've had this problem ever since I've used Windows 98. I've been through three TOTALLY different systems/platforms and literally the only thing that has remained the same is the soundcard. It even did this on my old Pentium III 350MHz system from almost 4 years ago.
Since this problem has existed, the only way around it has been to use the Windows XP drivers. These are the ONLY DRIVERS that have NEVER had this problem that I've used. Windows 2000 and Windows 98 all suffered from this locking up problem.
I just recently installed Creative's newest SBLive drivers for Windows XP and it's been a total bust. Since I've installed these drivers, I have had several new problems... While watching television on my PC, the sound will randomly "thrash". It gets as loud as possible and boosts itself until it sounds fuzzy and horribly ear startling. I've managed to get around this without restarting by unchecking "Digital audio out only" and then checking it again. But it will do it again shortly after each time I do this.
Another problem I've had is the lockups again. Right now, I'm using the default Windows XP drivers which work wonderfully, but I'm not too keen on these meeting my gaming needs (No EAX and poor hardware acceleration.. etc..)
I get lockups while listening to music (or if my sound card is in use somehow) while copying files. It's definitely the drivers.. My soundblaster doesn't even share an IRQ with another device let along have a conflict. When I uninstall the SBLive driver and use the basic XP one, it works fine again.
Straight to the point, my question is does anyone know of a site where I can download previous or beta/leaked versions of Creative Soundblaster Drivers? I thought I had my old ones that worked fine, but I realized I must have not had them backed up so the only drivers for Windows XP I have are the new, crappy ones.
Anyway, I've had this problem ever since I've used Windows 98. I've been through three TOTALLY different systems/platforms and literally the only thing that has remained the same is the soundcard. It even did this on my old Pentium III 350MHz system from almost 4 years ago.
Since this problem has existed, the only way around it has been to use the Windows XP drivers. These are the ONLY DRIVERS that have NEVER had this problem that I've used. Windows 2000 and Windows 98 all suffered from this locking up problem.
I just recently installed Creative's newest SBLive drivers for Windows XP and it's been a total bust. Since I've installed these drivers, I have had several new problems... While watching television on my PC, the sound will randomly "thrash". It gets as loud as possible and boosts itself until it sounds fuzzy and horribly ear startling. I've managed to get around this without restarting by unchecking "Digital audio out only" and then checking it again. But it will do it again shortly after each time I do this.
Another problem I've had is the lockups again. Right now, I'm using the default Windows XP drivers which work wonderfully, but I'm not too keen on these meeting my gaming needs (No EAX and poor hardware acceleration.. etc..)
I know there are people without these probelms, so it has to have something to do with my system and/or myself... That's what I keep telling myself anyway. It's hard to believe though since I have had the same problems with three completely different systems over the span of many years.
