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HOT: Turn your SB Live into Audigy for free (may be untrue)

uhh.. no... your post should say how to install the Audigy driver on your Live. All the Geforce cards use the same driver, but that doesn't make your Geforce3 a Geforce4.
 
I don't own either card, so I don't benefit. But, since this is causing an uproar, I am assuming there is more to it than Device Manager calling your Live an Audigy.
 
here save some time:

Your Creative SB Live! 2 SB Audigy??!
=>Posted by: NewsFactory.
=>Thursday, March 07 @ 18:34:09 CET
Further to my earlier post Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Is A FAKE? that says that someone in Taiwan or China claimed to have found a way to modify some Audigy driver to install it to support his Live! card and then the Live! card has full fuctionality of the Audigy except the 1394 port. Well if you want to know how to do this and how to modify the driver hit read more...

Seems some Chinese posted the article in a Taiwan soundcard messageboard, and that although that Taiwan BBS got a warning letter from Creative from some Hongkong attorney. And I think they did the right thing. They actually put the letter and that article together for us to see them entirely.

DarkDeus has translated the main steps for you:

It's for WinXP!

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".
SB Live! 2 SB Audigy driver under the common section.

SB Live! 2 SB Audigy driver 5th file up from bottom.

USE @ YOUR OWN RISK


Rancho*: I doubt that this procedure is really working due to the same hardware used. I suggest that CL has rather kept their announcement to develop a unified driver for Live! and Audigy.

http://www.reactorcritical.com/download.shtml
 
i think warp2search.net is running on impulse power...the Anandtech Effect overloaded their warp core! 😉


-hudster
 
One question I have about all of this is wether or not it'll actually make my SB Live sound better. Anyone try this and notice anything new?
 
umm...would there be any benefit from this? like jasonja said before, Nvidia updates their drivers all in one package for the seperate cards...doesn't mean i have a geforce 4!
 
Complete BS. The only reason it can be claimed to be true is that there is very little recognisable difference in the sound between a Live and an Audigy. This just places an Audigy driver in place of a Live driver. The 2 cards use completely different chips, the EMU10k1 for the live and the EMU10k2 for the audigy. Admittedly, they are similar(the one is the sequel to the other), and that is why the driver is mostly the same, but it does nothing for the capabilities of your card.
 
Last I checked, it was a different kind of architecture and featureset which warrants a different model card, not software.
 
Cool, I didn't know that they were working on unified live/audigy drivers. I have an old live value that the drivers just suck for under xp. My inputs are set to mono. They haven't updated the old lives at all.. I thought they forgot about them.
 
hmm ... well one of the main things I was looking at the audigy for was to be able to assign each digi its own channel - the Lives got only one active at any time and i have to click the button to swap between cd and tv, if its just a driver to allow more channels to be active at once, then it wold save me upgrading.

shame its for xp, not W98
 
Of course it's complete BS - They use completely different silicon, with different feature sets. Even if you can make the device manager claim it is an audigy, you won't be able to do funky things like multiple environments - the emu10k1 just doesnt have the number crunching power.
 
Just in case someone actually believes this to be true, I also am submitting that the Audigy is a different chip than the Live.

As already mentioned, the upgrade is much like from one GeForce to the next. In addition to 24 bit 96khz playback, the Audigy also sports better hardware support (and thus less CPU utilization), and it internally processes audio streams at whatever sampling rate the file is, unlike the Live which would upsample or downsample to 48khz and then convert the file back to the original sample rate for output. It also has hardware support for EAX2.

Of course, definitive proof of this would be to run benchmark tests with CPU usage using Audigy drivers for both the Audigy and Live!, and Im sure the results would show that it isnt merely the drivers that have made the Audigy a better card.

 
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