Installing Creative SoundBlaster Live! 1024 in Windows 10 64-bit. The onboard sound card. You can see the estimated availability date of Windows 10 drivers for.

I have an old test PC where I recently installed Windows 10 Pro 64-bit to check the performance and compatibility with devices and applications. The onboard sound card is a Realtek AC'97 which as described will cause a BSOD if you try to install the latest Realtek drivers.

The solution was to manually install an older version of the Windows XP 64-bit driver. Since the driver is meant for Windows XP 64-bit, as you may guess is not 100% compatible with Windows 10 64-bit. It installed the playback devices (Realtek AC'97 audio Speakers and Realtek AC'97 Digital Output) and I can play any sound perfectly, but it didn't install any recording device, so I cannot record any sound. I have an old Creative SoundBlaster Live! 1024 PCI card (model CT4832), so I decided to install it and give it a try.

For each attempt I restarted in Test mode (Disable driver signatures) just to make sure the driver will install whether is signed or not. The official Creative BETA driver for Windows XP 64-bit installed 'successfully', but no sound was produced from the speakers! There was no official driver for Vista 64-bit or newer (not even for Vista 32-bit or newer), so I tried the SB_Live_SupportPack_2_5 (unofficial SB driver by Daniel_K). The same again, it installed 'successfully' but no sound came from the speakers.

I wasn't so happy that I couldn't use a Creative driver (either official or unofficial), so I got my last resort, the third-party. It installed 'successfully' but again I could not hear any sound from the speakers (connected to the green speaker output which normally is for the front speakers). I opened the KX mixer and tried to test the speakers, when I got an error that 'Failure to produce sound' I was about to give up when I opened the Playback devices and I noticed 5 devices instead of 2 (Speakers and Digital). These were strangely named 'Master Mixer', 'Wave Out 2/3', 'Wave Out 4/5', 'Wave Out 6/7', 'SPDIF/AC3 output'. So I kept my speakers connected to the green output (front) and then right-clicked on each device and selected 'Test'. Finally I was able to hear sound from 'Wave Out 4/5' device, so set that default.

I can perfectly play any sound now. I haven't tested recording from 'Recording Mixer' device yet, but I hope it works.

EDIT: I just noticed a setting 'Swap front and back speakers' in KX mixer. It was enabled (swap). When I disabled it, the sound now comes as expected from the 'Master Mixer' and 'Wave Out 2/3'.

How to install garmin software on other pna. So I set 'Master Mixer' default as it should. I think that's one step forward.

I'll let you know if recording works once I get the chance to test it. Just for the record, the KX mixer still gives an error 'Failure to produce sound' when testing the speakers, but I don't care if sound works in all other applications. So it is possible to make an old Creative SoundBlaster card work in Windows 10, even on Windows 10 64-bit, but I'm not very satisfied with the way it is done.

I would prefer using Creative drivers for best performance/compatibility. Anyway I'll live with that. PS: The KX Project is available for Mac OS X, for all of you wanting to use a Creative SoundBlaster (and Audigy) card in a Hanckitosh (regular PC running Mac OS X).

I've built a retrogaming rig to play my old Windows favorites ()and was using DOSBox on my main PC for DOS games. But since it does not (yet?) support 3d acceleration and 16bit sound, I figured I should use the real thing for them. I downloaded the sb16 DOS emulation drivers for my Live! Value but I can't get it to work.

First, when I try to install the drivers, it says I don't have enough disk space on destination drive and that I need to free some space before continuing or cancel the operation. Of course I've got 400+ MB free on system partition. Manually extracting does not work. Because, the system hangs when booting Win98 right after the dos emulation drivers are loaded, after 2 minutes of hang I get a 'not ready reading drive c:' or something similar like that, 'abort? When I press either A, R or F nothing happens. So I had to remove the initialize lines from my autoexec.bat.

Windows loads up fine, and the sound works perfectly in windows games but I get no sound in DOS games. I've had my share of googling for hours and it seems that every solution I found didn't work.

I tried millions of different variations of the ctsyn.ini, autoexec.bat and config.sys files but no matter what I do, it just gives me the finger. I'm now even considering getting a SB16 PCI but then I'll lose EAX. Newbie Posts: 22 Joined: 2008-7-05 @ 13:51 Location: Ankara, Turkey •. Work was coming down on me like a thousand demons on that 'Doom' poster so I didn't have a chance to use the P3 much.