Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1 Driver for Windows Vista Download

David Polanco
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Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1 Driver for Windows Vista Download

Apr 22nd, 2007 3:41:41 pm - Subscribe
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For all of you guys that have had no luck installing your Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1 Driver on Windows Vista, here is a resolution that works!

After I installed Windows Vista I noticed that windows update did not support my Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 so I decided to look for an alternative driver. I tried the following programs that did NOT work.

SBL51_W9xME.exe - This download is a standalone package of Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 software meant for existing 5.1 card users who have lost their installation CD. It also includes the following Creative Audio software suite

ngocmd.exe - This applies to all Live! products, including OEM Dell, Gateway, HP, etc. editions, 24-bit, 5.1, and the rest. Vista 5308 may or may not find drivers on Windows Update, but even if it does, they will not support Digital Audio.

So I went straight to my manufacture...Dell. I begain looking for my computer type, then by its model. I noticed that a old driver was avaliable.

Direct Download from Dell Servers
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital

(Note - You do not need a Dell to download this Driver, its from Creative)

So I downloaded it - Right Clicked on it > Properties > Windows XP Compatibility > Apply > Ok. Then I double clicked and installed.

Luckly, after 2 hours of searching I found a resolution to my audio problems window Sound Blaster Live 5.1 for Windows Vista. All of you that have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2, this should also work for you.

Direct Download from Dell Servers
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2

A 2nd Solution by anonymous - June 11th, 2007:
Creative Forums On Vista

Be sure to follow the directions strictly as they are written in blue...it's not hard

Here's a mirror of the file you have to extract:
SBXF_PCDVT_LB_2_13_0012.exe

And this WORKS FOR EVERYONE that has a Sound Blaster 5.1 Digital on Vista

Bye

Comment if you need help. Good luck!

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anonymous - April 29th, 2007
A big 'Thank you' from the Netherlands. It works, as you off course already knew.

anonymous - April 29th, 2007
I will try tomorrow. Greeting from Croatia...

anonymous - May 01st, 2007
You da MAN!!

It works!, finally I have sound again. Dell 8400 with Creative Sound Blaster Live. I am using Vista Business.

anonymous - May 01st, 2007
A big thanks from the Netherlands again. Works like a charm!

anonymous - May 01st, 2007
Thanx Man, will try it later

anonymous - May 03rd, 2007
thanks! i also have Vista business and i couldnt find a driver anywhere

never thought about the compatibility option

anonymous - May 04th, 2007
YOU ARE THE SHIT

anonymous - May 04th, 2007
ill try it , hope the sound doesnt distort in games as other drivers for vista i tried "live 5.1"

/Thanx

anonymous - May 04th, 2007
u are my lucky god.......thx man

anonymous - May 05th, 2007
no comment

anonymous - May 07th, 2007
Thanx Man, will try it later

anonymous - May 10th, 2007
jorge rodriguez - thank you my friend

anonymous - May 10th, 2007
i must sad that audigy driver work properly and thanks from Bosnia for this driver.....

anonymous - May 11th, 2007
You are the man cheers m8 been trying to rectify this problem for some time now, nice one!!!

Scott, UK

anonymous - May 12th, 2007
Thanks mate you are a life saver, was thinking I would be having to get a new sound card, now I have crystal clear sound again rather than crackly sound on Vista. Thanks again

anonymous - May 14th, 2007
thank you again from the netherlands!!! And allso France :=P

anonymous - May 14th, 2007
I tried the driver in XP Compatible mode and it told me that it could not find a SB Card inthe system, although there is one installed and loaded with the vista driver that only gives stero sound....any hints?

david - May 14th, 2007
My recommendation would be to uninstall any audio drivers that may already be present from a past installation. Then proceed with the steps listed above.

anonymous - May 14th, 2007
hi David,

Thanks for the response. On my first attempt, there was no drivers loaded. The card appeared in Device Manager with a yellow !

david - May 14th, 2007
Ok try this, unless you already figured it out. Go to the device manager and uninstall any present drivers. Once that is complete, give the PC a reboot. One that is done make sure that you are installing the correct sound card driver. I've been through many installations of different sound cards in the past, and not all sound blasters are the same. Once that is done proceed. If possible, give me a full name of your soundcard.

anonymous - May 15th, 2007
Hi dude! Thanx but it's not working for me. I downlaoded this exe file and ran it in Win XP compatibility mode. The files are extracted and the setup program starts. But then without showing the wizard it says that a Creative sound blaster 5.1 was not found on my system. Anything i can do for this, please? Thanx a lot!!!!

anonymous - May 15th, 2007
hello from Portugal, I got the same message went for the ngocmd.exe witch i had already installed without sucess so i ran it again and now its working fine. make shure the plug & play OS is set to yes in your bios.
good luck and tks to david anyway

david - May 16th, 2007
Glad I could help out. If anyone else needs help, just comment and I will get an email stating you've commented.

anonymous - May 20th, 2007
ok so this is what i did:

first i went to device manager and under other devices i uninstalled the "multimidea audio device". it didnt even recognize it as a sblive at this point. then i downloaded Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live 5.1 Digital driver and put it on xp compatability. then i installed. nothing happened though. i didnt get any errors. it never really asked me anything. it just extracted and then installed but my card still isnt recognized.

anonymous - May 21st, 2007
Does THis Work With x64-bit version of Windows Vista!!!!!!!!!????????

david - May 21st, 2007
Give it a try and tell us.

anonymous - June 01st, 2007
Okey,this is what I've done lately,but the problem still persists and this seems to be getting out-of-hand,and Microsoft & Creative should really spend a huge time & effort for fixing this huge problem.What I did was install a fresh copy of Vista Ultimate on my PC.After installing I've noticed immediately that my PC has no sound whatsoever,after investigating a bit in device manager (Which showed my sound device having that yellow thing.),and attempting to install my Sound Blaster Live! driver from the original cd (Which would not recognise the driver.).I have aslo tried you're suggestion of installing the driver posted in you're blog and putting it in XP mode compatible,but the problem still persists saying: "Setup could not detect any sound blaster audio card in your system."Any posts concerning this problem is a BIG thanks..

david - June 01st, 2007
Be sure to uninstall any existing driver that may have been installed prior, once that is done it should work.

anonymous - June 02nd, 2007
Hi!

David, great work that you are at least making the effort. Unfortunately I have the same problem that it mentions a Soundblaster sound card could not be found.
How can I determine the exact make and model of my card? I'm pretty sure it's a Live 5.1, but I'm afraid I'll have to pull it out of the machine first.

I've also tried extracting the files to a folder and by installing the new drivers navigate to that folder. Didn't work either.
When I did that while internet drivers (by MS I presume) where installed through "Update drivers" and then navigated to the unpacked information it mentioned that the drivers installed where up to date. (However the sound was still crap.)

Any other ideas? Thanks!

anonymous - June 05th, 2007
Are you able to get 5.1 surround working?

I'm using the KXproject drivers and after messing around for about an hour they're working okay.

gman

anonymous - June 05th, 2007
hey, thanks for your efforts, but im getting the same message: "setup was unable to detect and sound blaster card installed on your system"

its a Sound blaster live! 5.1 and im running windows vista home edition

any help would be appreciated.

also, if you can, could you contact me at my e-mail address: pendaz(@)gmail.com

Thanks

anonymous - June 06th, 2007
Hi, nice post. I'm having no luck getting Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 512V to work, any help would be apreciated.

anonymous - June 08th, 2007
Thanks for the tip at the top. I tried the steps that you outlined. Found that I had to do two more things for the driver to finally get installed:
1) I made sure to uninstall the audio entry in Device Manager before installing the CD Driver
2) I made sure that I went to the Dell/Drivers/R69382 folder and made sure that the file SBLA05W.exe was set to run in XP compatibility mode.
Thanks again.

anonymous - June 10th, 2007
"setup was unable to detect and sound blaster card installed on your system"

dont know how to fix this

anonymous - June 10th, 2007
Works great on my dell 8250! You saved me hours of time fingering this out. Thanks!

anonymous - June 12th, 2007
this very wierd, the only positive remarks are at the beginning and at the end....i have tried unistalling multimedia audio from device manager before, plug and play OS from bios on, compatibility mode XP SP2 Yadda ok....forget that

here is the solution:

forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=14650#M14650

be sure to follow the directions strictly as they are written in blue...it's not hard

here's a mirror of the file you have to extract:

ccftp.creative.com/manualdn/Drivers/AVP/9925/0xE2389202/SBXF_PCDVT_LB_2_13_0012.exe

And this WORKS FOR EVERYONE that has a Sound Blaster 5.1 Digital on Vista

Bye

anonymous - September 10th, 2007
I tried going on the Creative forum and downloading the latest and i cant seem to find anything. please let me know where i can download teh vista drive you mentioned on the forums. please email me at RRSRER@gmail.com

thanks,

anonymous - September 11th, 2007
files.aoaforums.com/F2803-SBXF_PCDVT_LB_2_13_0012.exe

anonymous - September 27th, 2007
Thankyou!!!! That compatibility change was very smart. Thanks alot.

anonymous - October 01st, 2007
IMPORTANT:
I am just updating Vista Ultimate and it is installing drivers for my Live 5.1 card, will post again to let you know how it goes.

david - October 02nd, 2007
Great thanks keep us updated.

anonymous - October 04th, 2007
THIS FOOKING SERVER IS FOOKING SLOW ! DELL FOOK TI MADER

anonymous - November 10th, 2007
If you get the "unable to detect" error message, here's the fix (this has been a known fix for years - even for Windows XP):

Install a program like WINRAR so you can right-click the downloaded .EXE and extract it to a folder. In the folder is another compressed folder called DRIVERS - extract that one too. Inside THAT folder is a program called "CTZAPXX". Run it - it will ask if you want to install the drivers (gee, you think we do after all this?). Once you accept the install, it will ask for a reboot. You should already have sound as it plays the Windows shut-down sound as it reboots. This has always worked for me on all machines!

anonymous - November 22nd, 2007
hey david

Could you confirm that SB 5.1 Live works fine with the Vista Update

thanks

david - November 22nd, 2007
I am unable to confirm anonymous November 22nd, but I am pretty sure it will indeed work. Keep in mind that this is simply a driver, and honestly...its not a really 'a good one'....but all and all it works. Can anyone please verify?

anonymous - November 24th, 2007
Hey david

i have changed to Windows Vista Ultimate now, and it has updated the C 5.1 SB Live Drivers.......now the thing is that: IT WORKS WELL.....but only 3 of my speakers work(Left Right and Subwoofer).....Otherwise if i click: Sounds ==> Playback ===> Configure(5.1) and Test Each Speaker WORKS Fine!!!!......but otherwise only 3 work......i have searched like hell passed few days....and i found this:
=======
forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=26559
=======

The only problem is that the two files i need to activate surround sound are on rapidshare....which does not work in my country.

If any of you could find the same 2 files in the link please let me know.

The files:

Sound Blaster Live series 4.1 - 5.1 vista 32/64 driver

rapidshare.com/files/64356124/SBAX_2_12_0001_20.zip

Creative audio console - Install this to surround sound work ¡

Creative audio console Version 1.20.57 (preferably use this version)

rapidshare.com/files/65598530/AudCon.zip

Thankyou
===================================

anonymous - December 25th, 2007
thank you i'll try

anonymous - January 20th, 2008
Worked great! Thanks!

anonymous - January 21st, 2008
goooooooooooooood

anonymous - February 09th, 2008
hello everbody! The question is: this driver indicated in this site works all the channel from the board live 5.1? I try other ways to plug 5.1 and 4 channels but work´s just 2! Somebody know this information? sorry about my english! denissato@hotmail.com

anonymous - February 12th, 2008
Thanxxxxxxxxxxx alot from EGYPT

i really tierd looking for this one over the internet , and when i got some one working i found that the sound going out from 2 speakers only

, so i hope this driver make all speakers working .... cheeeers

anonymous - February 25th, 2008
hi. i wana download this driver for my computer. it's truely good for sound.

anonymous - March 01st, 2008
My p16x.sys is having a compatability issue with Vista as i had recently chaged frm XP. Help required

frm Dubai

anonymous - March 08th, 2008
Hi have installed but sound is distorted.

naimadekar - March 25th, 2008
Hi my nick is naimadekar, I make this driver:

Sound Blaster Live series 4.1 - 5.1 vista 32/64 driver

rapidshare.com/files/64356124/SBAX_2_12_0001_20.zip

Creative audio console - Install this to surround sound work ¡

Creative audio console Version 1.20.57 (preferably use this version)

rapidshare.com/files/65598530/AudCon.zip

YOU CAN READ ALL INSTRUCTION AND PROBLEM SOLUTION ON MY ORIGINAL POST HERE:
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=26559

If you hear distortion sound, change speakers to 4 or 5.1

Sounds in Windows Vista enviroment (music, mouse sounds,theme sounds,etc.) have only two channel, this is windows vista problem not hardware sound problem, multichannel sounds work only in OpenAL games how "Bioshock", "Prey" or DVD 5.1 surround sound movies.

Note: For multichannel sounds in windows vista environment, you have to enable Speaker Fill option in control panel - sound enhancements setting in my naimadekar driver mod.

I test multichannel 4 and 5.1 sounds successfully in Bioshock, prey, crysis and Virtua tennis 3 games!

You can try too, other driver how Daniel_k mod this work great and have support of CMSS and Stereo Surround too! Here:
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=27410

anonymous - March 26th, 2008
jeez man thnx ur a life saver thought i'd never get a driver download for my Sound Blaster Thnx again

anonymous - April 08th, 2008
thanks

anonymous - April 09th, 2008
thank you very much from Greece

anonymous - April 22nd, 2008
5445u54u

anonymous - April 28th, 2008
thanks to you from INDIA

anonymous - May 01st, 2008
YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS DUDE!!!!!

anonymous - May 02nd, 2008
The sound Quality is not good. I prefer KX-DRIVER

anonymous - May 26th, 2008
thank you!

anonymous - June 14th, 2008
It said there is no such sound card on my system?!

anonymous - June 14th, 2008
i tried many solutions here.. nuthing works Oo
this modded driver works like the rest: front-left/right works. subwoofer does as long as the front-boxes do.
rear and center says nothing.
in windows-driver i have 5.1 in this creative-optimize-thingy i had to choose between 2.1, 4.1 and headphones..
all with the same effect.
same happens with x-fi driver.
bullshit -.-
i'll try to force xpdriver again and if this wont work i'll use kx driver again (which for some reason stopped working yesterday o,o i had sound just to the point where kx loaded after each reboot)

anonymous - June 15th, 2008
Thnx for all! I'll Try Later & Then will give u a sweet hug! wish it will work!

anonymous - June 28th, 2008
Thank`s bro for your information, great job, thank`s By Me : Siliwangi from Idonesia.. God bless You....::heers:

anonymous - June 30th, 2008
I have an Audigy card and after installing Vista Home edition I have no line in, any help on this one?

anonymous - July 02nd, 2008
i kindah got it working of a different driver, but i have now got a beeping noise.. what do you think is causing it ?

anonymous - July 02nd, 2008
does the microphone jack work after this fix?
Please reply

anonymous - July 11th, 2008
Thank Dude I will try with my fucking Creative Card

anonymous - July 13th, 2008
I can't find the Speaker Fill Sound Enhancement tab. There's only the General, Tones, Levels and Advanced tabs I can play with.

anonymous - July 17th, 2008
thanksssssssss

anonymous - July 23rd, 2008
Hi, David Polanco!
:> Thanks a lot for the Creative Soundblaster live 5.1 driver for windows vista.

Hope your driver really can help my sound work.

anonymous - August 02nd, 2008
Thanks a lot!!

Also from the Netherlands

anonymous - August 05th, 2008
vista Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 driver download

anonymous - August 08th, 2008
i tried the way on this forum and also the way at creative forums, i was ale to install the driver by Microsoft's Update but my computer keeps giving me BSOD or restarts itself, very unstable, anyone pls help!

anonymous - August 08th, 2008
Yea, Thanks Bro...!!!

anonymous - August 09th, 2008
I ue window vista ultimate 32 bit. already try 2 of that driver...5.1 speaker sound, when listen song, just get the front 2 speak having sound...but when run testing for the speaker, 5 speaker also got sound...I use sound blaster live 5.1

Anyone help. Thanks

anonymous - August 11th, 2008
thanks

anonymous - August 12th, 2008
You're the don ....

Thank a million!!!!!!!

anonymous - August 17th, 2008
kjk

anonymous - August 27th, 2008
Thanks a bunch man, finally i have sound on my vista o/

anonymous - September 01st, 2008
If you get distortion after installation ann you have to do is go to playback devices select Creative SB Live! Speakers Click on 5.1 Souround then next uncheck all unavailable speaker such as center, subwoofer & rear Pair, click next, select only front left and right click next then finish

anonymous - September 04th, 2008
David, the link for your 2nd solution is no longer working it seems. When i try it, it says the page can not be displayed. thoughts?

anonymous - September 15th, 2008
Cool Man,,, Ur advice is so nice.. it works. We just need to make compatible our old drivers and it works...

anonymous - September 16th, 2008
Anyone found a solution for the BSOD it gives when installing the Microsoft Update driver? my computer keeps restarting itself all the time

anonymous - September 20th, 2008
Thanks ever so much David, and to everyone else who brought in information as to how to get the soundblaster Live to work.

Big up from Kelvin in London. =)

anonymous - September 23rd, 2008
だと思わない？

anonymous - September 30th, 2008
Hi David,

Would this also support EAX on Vista?

anonymous - October 04th, 2008
Thank you a Million Times .. your idea was marvellous hope someone buys you a new house in your future

anonymous - October 07th, 2008
i install but it did not work

anonymous - October 16th, 2008
It doesn't works. I'm trying to install it, but system can't find my sound card.

anonymous - October 20th, 2008
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anonymous - October 20th, 2008
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anonymous - November 14th, 2008
dude...thanks alot...i mean really...you just made my day...

david - November 21st, 2008
Not a problem glad I could help out.

anonymous - November 22nd, 2008
Terima Kasih as in thank u! from malaysia!

anonymous - November 29th, 2008
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