soundblaster driver?

[bindit]

Please, please, can anyone help with a driver for a Soundblaster audio 64 PCI, for a friends PC i've re-formatted. Everything is working fine except i'm a driver short. I've spent an hour on the net and come up with an .ecw file from soundblaster.com i don't know how to use and a whole heap of other sites such as freedownloads.com and downloads.com that lead me nowhere, this used to be easy!

[TheHobbit]

bindit said:

Please, please, can anyone help with a driver for a Soundblaster audio 64 PCI, for a friends PC i've re-formatted. Everything is working fine except i'm a driver short. I've spent an hour on the net and come up with an .ecw file from soundblaster.com i don't know how to use and a whole heap of other sites such as freedownloads.com and downloads.com that lead me nowhere, this used to be easy!

I have an AWE64 ISA card, but Win2000 and WinXP find it without needing a driver disk.....

have you tried here: http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/drivers/welcome.asp ??

[bindit]

Thanks Hobbit, but thats the site that gave me a .ecw file that doesn't run with anything. The PC is running win 98.

[squirrelz]

The ecw file is a wavetable set, you need to download the driver which is shown further down the page.

(Not sure if these links will work)

Downloads page
http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/drivers/product.asp?bypass=1&category=2&os=2&driverlang=1&prod=34&drivertype=1

Driver download link
http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/drivers/eula.asp?id=265

[bindit]

great, thanks squirrelz, was just about pulling whats left of my hair out, all sorted now.

[bindit]

oh dear, i shouldn't jump the gun like that, the PCI 64 driver doesn't work, i need the PCI 64V which is not available on the creative website, only the wavesets, i've now spent about two hours searching for this feckin driver

>> Edited by bindit on Sunday 11th January 16:28

[TheHobbit]

is this the file you downloaded? I found the "SB PCI 64 V" and the download link is (supposedly) this:

http://files.europe.creative.com/manualdn/Drivers/Others/1843/SBPCI_WebDrvsV5_12_01.exe

[bindit]

Thanks for your help hobbit, but its not compatible with win98. Don't know what to do now, never thought getting a soundblaster driver would cause me this amount of hassle, wouldn't mind if it wasn't my friends PC.

[TheHobbit]

Doh!, my mistake .

Have you tried DriverGuide? I've found stuff there when I've been unable to find it anywhere else.....

[bindit]

i tried to use Driverguide, but the download program you need to use with the site will not work, says i have a .dll file that is too old!

[TheHobbit]

bindit said:

i tried to use Driverguide, but the download program you need to use with the site will not work, says i have a .dll file that is too old!

YHM.