Posted Thursday 7:08.10 PM
March 7, 2002 by triplethreat2k2
Turn your SB Live! into SB Audigy
DO THIS WITH CAUTION. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
I know this is old news. I've seen this myself a couple of months ago, but it seems that people are still very interested in this. I, personally, don't see the advantage of using the Audigy drivers over the Live! drivers that Creative provides. Be aware that your CPU usage will dramatically increase upon installing these drivers.
This is for Windows XP only!
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1) Go to device manager.
2) Go to audio device/gameport.
3) Remove SBLive! WDM Basic Device.
4) Remove Gameport for SBLive!.
5) Backup wdma10k1.inf to wdma10k1.inf.old.
6) Backup wdma10k1.pnf to wdma10k1.pnf.old.
7) Install official Audigy driver, and select "no" when prompted for "uninstalling driver".
8) Restart.
9) System reports that "New audio hardware is found", select "Do not install driver automatically"! System reports "New gameport device found", select "Do not install driver automatically"!
10) Run the Audigy beta driver:
UDA_betaUDA_betaAudioEnglishdriversCTZAPXX.exe, select "Install WDM driver".
11) Restart, everything okay except the sound font manager.
12) Copy the sfman32.dll from the "common" directoy of the Audigy driver disc, boot to DOS or other version of windows (or safe mode?), then copy the sfman32.dll to "System32" directory of Windows.
13) Restart, everything okay, all functionality!
The conclusion by that guy is that Audigy is just the old core with new manufacture method (thus different chip size, etc.) with 24-bit playback DAC and 1394 interface. He also hypothesized that Creative have their stock dropping a lot earlier last year and a lot of people are criticizing that their R&D is too slow, so they just make Audigy which is(?) based on the same old core while advertising it as "with a lot of whole new technology and functionality".
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