Sound Blaster Live!
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The Sound Blaster Live! is one of the best, if not the best, Sound Card for Windows 98 SE. But you got to make sure that you get the right card.
Avoid OEM versions, like the ones from DELL, and stick with retail cards, the driver CDs will work just fine with those. Also don't use the WDM drivers, they are slower and have issues with games. VXD drivers are fast and bugfree with DirectSound3D and EAX technology. Also some chipsets can have issues with this Sound Card, so my advice here is to go with an Intel chipset. Most Windows games will sound great on this Sound Card. EAX supporting games will sound fantastic, and having tried quite a few Sound Cards, EAX is where this card really shines. It's only in A3D 2.0 supporting games that an Aureal Vortex 2 is noticeably better. |
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 SB0100 PCI Sound Card
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DOS compatibility surprised me and a lot of games that didn't work on C-Media or YAMAHA based PCI Sound Cards, well they worked just fine on the Sound Blaster Live. Also you get Sound Blaster 16 compatibility, rather than just a Sound Blaster Pro and we have a working General MIDI device as well, so games like Doom, Duke Nukem 3D and Descent sound great.
DOS Drivers
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Windows 98 Drivers
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These are the Windows 98 Drivers from the Installation CD. They contain the VXD drivers, which are recommended for Gaming. Run Upddrv98.exe and it will commence with the installation, no CD required and they install very fast. But they won't work with all Live! cards, especially OEM versions. Successfully tested with SB0100 and SB0060 cards.
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Audigy 2 ZS drivers for Live!
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These are drivers from the Audigy 2 ZS Installation CD and they work just fine with Sound Blaster Live! cards. They support more cards, for example OEM cards with hard-to-find drivers.
Just start with 1. folder and work your way to folder 5. | ||
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