SBLive gameport
This is a discussion about SBLive gameport in the Windows Hardware category; Did anybody ever figure out how to get the SB Live gameport to work under 2183? I installed LW3 (rather unsuccessfully, I might add), but I still get nothing about a gameport in the device manager. I've tried completely uninstalling the sound card, and reinstalling.
Did anybody ever figure out how to get the SB Live gameport to work under 2183? I installed LW3 (rather unsuccessfully, I might add), but I still get nothing about a gameport in the device manager. I've tried completely uninstalling the sound card, and reinstalling. . . nothing. The gameport did used to work with RC2, but after upgrading to RC3, I can't get a thing. Anybody have a miracle driver out there?
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Uninstall LiveWare. Uninstall the sound card. Possibly even delete the drivers. Then install using the "shipped-with-W2K" drivers.
The native drivers work great for the game port and audio (as long as you're happy with regular stereo). If you dick around, stuff breaks...
The native drivers work great for the game port and audio (as long as you're happy with regular stereo). If you dick around, stuff breaks...
Yep, Yuppie. I can attest to that. I tried several drivers to get the game port working, each time wound up with increadable hosage...
There are two things to know here:
the game port after the Liveware install is listed as the "Creative Multimedia Interface". Come to think of it, it may have been called that too before the patch. But I digress...
The name of the driver you want is "Game Port for Creative". Use the drivers that come with Win2k! Dated 5/23/98, ver 5.0.0.0.
I have mine running this now, but my liveware patch got broked when I was dinking around with something else. You'll know you got it wrong if you re-boot and it takes an hour to get back to the Device Manger screen to disable it...really slows things down.
There are two things to know here:
the game port after the Liveware install is listed as the "Creative Multimedia Interface". Come to think of it, it may have been called that too before the patch. But I digress...
The name of the driver you want is "Game Port for Creative". Use the drivers that come with Win2k! Dated 5/23/98, ver 5.0.0.0.
I have mine running this now, but my liveware patch got broked when I was dinking around with something else. You'll know you got it wrong if you re-boot and it takes an hour to get back to the Device Manger screen to disable it...really slows things down.
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Thanks to you both. I got the port working: The Device Manager said "Creative Multimedia Interface" and I just updated that driver using the one shipped with Windows called "Game Port for Creative SB Live!". It works like a champ.
As for the LW3 update and the slow-down. I found that the slowdown (at least on my system) was related to a file being accessed from McAfee VirusScan NT (amgrsrvc.exe). It was constantly using 100% system resources. I simply renamed the file to amgrsrvc.bak and rebooted, which considerably sped up the system. I'm not sure if that will apply to other people's systems, though.
As for the LW3 update and the slow-down. I found that the slowdown (at least on my system) was related to a file being accessed from McAfee VirusScan NT (amgrsrvc.exe). It was constantly using 100% system resources. I simply renamed the file to amgrsrvc.bak and rebooted, which considerably sped up the system. I'm not sure if that will apply to other people's systems, though.
