first !!! you need two cards :evil: local shop gave me a pile of 5 lives for free you find them everywhere for 5 to 10 quid i bought the audigy2 last year for £30 an audigy or higher model and a sound blaster live... any model install the sblive card only and install the full software and any updates for it to the machine now you have two methods 1} unplug the live card and plug in the audigy and install the kx driver plug back in the live start up and it will use either the wdm driver or the one from the package for the live you installed {all updates AND the original cd first} usualy the wdm {windows crap default driver } is disabled however just change it back you can get the other driver back by using the update driver tab in the device managers sound driver branch {you can remove the wdm driver before installing the live at all by using driver cleaner in safe mode} 2} instead of removing the live card go to its driver tab in the device manager and disable the card completely but REBOOT first and again close down and install the audigy and above card now restart and install the kx drivers now only the audigy card and above gets detected by the kx software and finaly re-enable the sblive and reboot now you can choose between the audigy card and the sblive in the sound and audio devices applet most games will use the default windows driver this should also be good for windows sound playback things like media player the kids games use of eax etc will then use the live but most software for audio allows you to use any card any time i think its best to do this if you make audio stuff but still like the bells and whistles windows sounds and games most always use the default windows settings tips ... turn off ECP printer mode just use normal mode if you find you get looping windows sounds {as it uses a dma and some older p3 p2 wont allow good sharing of dma} although i dont get this problems my spec msi 6380 KT4 chipset 400mhz fsb 2800+ AMD Athlone Barton sblive gamer creative drivers {original cd for the card + web updates to all compoenents} sb audigy2 kxdriver later beta 38 version {works well} onboard ac97 codec enabled {via sound codec} so 3 sound cards 3 drivers 3 independant outputs sets and full eax support problem solved
SO Basically your using the Live with Creative drivers to get partial EAX support....SB Live Cards only support EAX 2.0...
its ok for most games as they use compatabilities you can simply do it the other way round install the creative drivers for the later card you use disable it plug in the live series and use it for apps that require asio its not the best for audio this way but again you can plug in two the same card also and install mixed driver sets i tried it with audigy2 and two work fine together then full eax is avalible again
