Eventually this design proved so popular that Creative made a PCI version of this card. Creative's audio revenue grew from US$40 million per year to nearly US$1 billion following the launch of the Sound Blaster 16 and related products. Rich Sorkin was General Manager of the global business during this time, responsible for product planning, product management, marketing and OEM sales. Moving the card off the ISA bus, which was already approaching obsolescence, meant that no line for host-controlled ISA DMA was available, because the PCI slot offers no such line. Instead, the card used PCI bus mastering to transfer data from the main memory to the D/A converters. Since existing DOS programs expected to be able to initiate host-controlled ISA DMA for producing sound, backward compatibility with the older Sound Blaster cards for DOS programs required a software driver work-around; since this work-around necessarily depended on the virtual 8086 mode of the PC's CPU in order to catch and reroute accesses from the ISA DMA controller to the card itself, it failed for a number of DOS games that either were not fully compatible with this CPU mode or needed so much free conventional memory that they could not be loaded with the driver occupying part of this memory. In Microsoft Windows, there was no problem, as Creative's Windows driver software could handle both ISA and PCI cards correctly.
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Some drivers from the Audigy 2 ZS have been soft-modded by enthusiasts. These can be installed on Creative's older cards, including Sound Blaster Live!, Audigy, and Audigy 2. It has been claimed to offer improved sound quality, hardware acceleration of higher EAX versions in games, 64-channel mixing for Audigy 1, and an overall improvement in the card's performance. Several forum posts across the web have reported favorable results with this technique, excepting Live! users where the drivers only add the ability to use the newer software applications (i.e. the newer mixer applet). Comments on forums from developers of the software mod have said that Live's hardware is not capable of EAX3 nor 64-channels of hardware sound mixing.
When Windows Vista was released, there was only a single beta driver for the Creative Audigy series that was usable on the operating system with minimal functionality and frequent instability reported by users. A Creative Forum activist named Daniel K. modified drivers from the X-Fi and applied it to the Audigy and Live! series, restoring most if not all of the features that came with the original XP setup CD in Vista. X-Fi drivers have noticeably better sound quality under Vista, and more bug fixes because of the newer build (last modified version is 2.15.0004EQ April). He managed to enable the X-Fi Crystallizer to work on Audigy series cards in software, however because of the patents involved, he was forced to remove all the modified drivers and DLL patch.
i am looking for DOS drivers for my Sound Blaster Live CT4830. I am very amateur in MS-DOS. Could someone please help me or guide me to a step by step tutorial on setting up native DOS drivers for my sound card. Thanks
If you experience any problems such as no sound, interrupt conflicts or else, try to modify the settings for your driver usingSBESET.EXE, or modify your BIOS settings following the instructionsgiven in the HTML file.
My SBLive is an older 4.1 version, and I think the ct4830 is a 5.1. Otherwise I'd upload my driver CD for you.But to get your SBLive working in DOS, I'd try to use the file structure on my PII as a starting point.
Sound Blaster Live! was the first sound card from Creative with the "What U Hear" recording input channel. This was supported in the Windows drivers, so no additional software was needed to utilize it. The analog stereo audio signal that came out of the main Line Out was directed into this input. That way, one could mix all available inputs and the MIDI synth into one stereo signal. When using "What U Hear" with 5.1 sound, the sound would be downmixed to stereo first. The Creative Recorder utility included with the sound card was specifically designed to take advantage of the "What U Hear" feature, making it a simple matter to capture streaming sound from any source, even from programs that deliberately avoid providing a means for saving the digital sounds, thus freeing non-technical users from the complexities of "patching" between inputs and outputs of various software modules.
Hey Guysi am currently having difficulties finding working native dos drivers for my Creative SoundBlaster Live Value CT4830.i have tried the ones in the sticky but they dont work, i have also tried other ones from vogons but no luck.Has anyone got the CT4830 working in dos. the games i am trying work fine in Windows98 but when i click restart in msdos mode there is no sound.
Come to think of it, I seem to recall the sound playback also being very quiet after the installation of the drivers from the CD -ROM.There might be some "gain" controls under the Mixer settings. I cannot recall, as it has been almost 20 years since I've installed my card with a Windows 98SE setup.I noticed that there is an "UPDDRV95.EXE" file in the \Win95drv folder. Perhaps run that and see if it makes a difference?
I'm pretty sure that a driver incompatibility is why the CT4830 did not work. You see, I started with the CT4830, got the 100% smooth install, but then no sound. But rather than reimage the HDD right away, I popped in the CT4780 (after trying another CT4830, as stated earlier), and it worked perfectly.
I'm thinking that the early model Live! cards pre-Windows XP and pre-WMA drivers would be excellent choices for EAX sound plus good SB16 compatibility with good wavetable. This is a dirt cheap solution for those wanting to get into retro gaming on PC.
Do you have the CD you used successfully with your CT4760 linked someplace please? Otherwise I was going to use this on on Vogon's drivers. I have an ESS ES1869F ISA sound card installed as well if that matters.
I?m trying to find some specs on the CT4830 on Creative's site, or other. Did find the User Manual & drivers / patch, but no real specs.For purposes of recording old vinyl LPsb> & reel to reel to HDD to burn to CD or convert to mp3, is this Creative CT4830Very likely / Possibly / Not likelyb>) to have better sound quality than my integrated audio?
The drivers don't bother each other. You can have problems if the 2 sound cards end up with the same IRQ. I have an Audigy 1 and an Audigy 2 ZS in my recording computer. At one time, I had a third sound card in the computer but the computer developed some psychological problems and starting switching around IRQs between the 3 cards on every reboot so I extracted one of them.
You can find much better cards out there for recording than the Creative Labs cards but there is nothiing else to compare with the kX drivers for taking advantage of the features of these cards for recording. You should just stick your CT4830 in the computer and try it out and see how it sounds.
The Ensoniq based SB Live cards were very troublesome to get working properly, I recall a lot of people scouring markets for the original Soundblasters which would just work...The Ensoniqs are very picky about having the exact right driver, an OEM card won't work properly with a non-OEM driver (e.g. a Dell SB Live needs the Dell driver) and vice-versa, and in DOS the OPL3 emulation caused a lot of heartache, being done by a TSR program, and the wavetable for music was also a software table loaded into memory from an .ECW file (which was usually not supplied with the driver package... handy).If the program uses MIDI music, make sure the Midi Mapper is not selected if it's being run under Windows.
Long time since I used Win98, but in the MIDI section of the sound or multimedia setup or whatever it was called, make sure MIDI is directed to the card's MPU-401 interface, not the mapper. If the driver is correctly installed, I think you just select MPU-401.
Again it's a long time since I used such a card, but the Wave Device may not produce any sound unless a software wavetable is loaded. If there is an MPU-401 option available, that might play Soundblaster FM, but I don't remember whether the Ensoniq based cards could do that in hardware or not. 2ff7e9595c
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