Alternative Creative Drivers kX Project Site

Necrosis · May 10, 2002, 09:07 AM

Hi Folks...if you would like to try something different for your Creative card try these drivers.

http://www.kxproject.spb.ru/index.php

I've never used them myself, but they come highly recommended.

Zardon · May 11, 2002, 02:39 PM

I see no one has replied but its got alot of views so I thought I would reply and day thanks for the link.

i have a friend with the card who is going to try the set later, ill let you know how it goes.

Jeff · May 11, 2002, 04:00 PM

That would be great, but my Audigy's workin' fine right now (sure no special control panel) I installed them from within device manager, to get rid of Creative's bloat. But now my 8500DV works properly too,

I wanted to try them on my PCI128, but alas, no support for THAT card.

high_ping · May 12, 2002, 02:12 PM

As you guys probably know, I am a huge Philips Acoustic Edge fan...however, since I quad boot my main box, I am currently forced to use a SB Live 5.1 xgamer. I had an audigy, but I am embarrassed to say that I broke off two of the resistors when changing out :o

So, as everyone knows the drivers for the sb series pretty much sucks in xp, but work flawlessly with the new alsa release in linux. So I am game to try these out. I will let you know my findings...worse case, I reinstall the oems.

akuma-x · May 13, 2002, 11:44 AM

Cool.
Just tried these out and they seem good so far.
granted i still get really bad popping in RTCW, JK2 and SS 2 SE. ( but the only time that i have not had popping in thouse games was when i was using the FireGL OGL drivers for my 8500 so i will not go there

)

high_ping · May 13, 2002, 06:36 PM

Yep, popping in all games that I have tried...going back to the oems that were relesed in nov. If anyone know of any newer drivers please post em.

DallasStar · May 14, 2002, 12:15 AM

just drivers:
http://users2.ev1.net/~dallasstar/Cr...ps/drivers.ace

full package:
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp2...00/SP20920.exe

these were released in May 2002 (or maybe April)

akuma-x · May 14, 2002, 02:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dallasstar
just drivers:
http://www.ev1.net/~dallasstar/Creat...ps/drivers.ace

full package:
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp2...00/SP20920.exe

these were released in May 2002 (or maybe April)

Will these work w/ the SBLive! 5.1 Xgamer??

Necrosis · May 14, 2002, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by akuma-x
Will these work w/ the SBLive! 5.1 Xgamer??

Yes this will!!

I just loaded them..great drivers.

Just remember to find the CTOem.cfg file in the folder and detect it. If you don't it will say you don't have the card installed.

Halon_X · May 14, 2002, 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dallasstar
just drivers:
http://www.ev1.net/~dallasstar/Creat...ps/drivers.ace

full package:
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp2...00/SP20920.exe

these were released in May 2002 (or maybe April)

I'm currently using those drivers. Great sound improvement. Highly recommended!!!!
dallastar has done a great job making a file for just the drivers. He reduced the file frm 350 megs to 4.5.

And yes they work for all the Live Series.

Way to go dallas!!

akuma-x · May 14, 2002, 08:31 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Necrosis
Yes this will!!

I just loaded them..great drivers.

Just remember to find the CTOem.cfg file in the folder and detect it. If you don't it will say you don't have the card installed.

Ok i found this file but i'm not sure what i need to do w/ it.

Edit: nevermind, I deleted it and that seamed to work.
and now that i look at you post i guess detect was a typeo

bb_forrest · May 15, 2002, 09:49 AM

Dallastar's file appears to not be there.

Cheers

Forrest

Necrosis · May 15, 2002, 10:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by akuma-x
Ok i found this file but i'm not sure what i need to do w/ it.

Edit: nevermind, I deleted it and that seamed to work.
and now that i look at you post i guess detect was a typeo

Yeah it was a typo sorry about that..guess thats what I get for posting so late at night.

DallasStar · May 15, 2002, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bb_forrest
Dallastar's file appears to not be there.

Cheers

Forrest

I'll look into it and fix it right now

DallasStar · May 15, 2002, 02:05 PM

fixed:

accidentally wrote www rather than "users2"
very sorry for the inconvenience

http://users2.ev1.net/~dallasstar/Cr...ps/drivers.ace

bb_forrest · May 15, 2002, 08:57 PM

Just getting them now......

Thanks

high_ping · May 17, 2002, 05:12 PM

Thanks!

requiredfield · May 22, 2002, 01:46 AM

For my first post here I would like to thank dallasstar for trimming the fat off that softpaq, for those of us that are connectionally challenged.
Thank You

I dont know about anybody else's experience with CTAGENT.DLL, but I have never seen a more persistant file than that one for trying to get out to the internet. My choices were to either let it go or remove it, since it insisted and reinsisted with every browser window I opened (and when you say no with ZA you need to open another browser window) it wanted out and wanted to take many, many more dll's with it. I had to go into safe mode to delete it. So far no ill effects and nothing else wanting to get out to the internet.
One other thing, it did a job on the volume of the system, I now have a few apps that are louder (quite a bit) than the rest of the system. I had initially thought the drivers didnt take or had installed poorly, until I turned my speaker volume to 3/4 (external, normally at 1/4). The system volume (control panel) is one notch short of full now (two or three from the left before) and the speaker volume (externally) is at 1/2 to get the same volume.

I would also like to mention the kX drivers, for which I thank Necrosis for making me aware of. I tried those first, for me no real improvement except that they were not a Creative product. Also they had a strange problem on my system, they would not wake from standby. Yes my system is somewhat tweaked but no other driver has ever done that before.

Some specifics
P4 2.0
Intel D845BG mobo
Windows XP Pro
Live 5.1

As you may have picked up on I'm not very pro-Creative right now, they cant seem to admit they have a problem, but two of their biggest customers, with 1-800 numbers I might add, have released multiple updates.
This soundcard problem I have lived with but I have owned (tried, thanks BestBuy) three different modems of theirs, and a CompUSA store brand (with Win2K drivers no less) out performed all of them on the first connection and hasnt failed me since. So right now I dont have a very high opinion of Creative Labs.

I just thought I would share my experiences

requiredfield

DallasStar · May 22, 2002, 01:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by requiredfield
For my first post here I would like to thank dallasstar for trimming the fat off that softpaq, for those of us that are connectionally challenged.
Thank You

I dont know about anybody else's experience with CTAGENT.DLL, but I have never seen a more persistant file than that one for trying to get out to the internet. My choices were to either let it go or remove it, since it insisted and reinsisted with every browser window I opened (and when you say no with ZA you need to open another browser window) it wanted out and wanted to take many, many more dll's with it. I had to go into safe mode to delete it. So far no ill effects and nothing else wanting to get out to the internet.
One other thing, it did a job on the volume of the system, I now have a few apps that are louder (quite a bit) than the rest of the system. I had initially thought the drivers didnt take or had installed poorly, until I turned my speaker volume to 3/4 (external, normally at 1/4). The system volume (control panel) is one notch short of full now (two or three from the left before) and the speaker volume (externally) is at 1/2 to get the same volume.

I would also like to mention the kX drivers, for which I thank Necrosis for making me aware of. I tried those first, for me no real improvement except that they were not a Creative product. Also they had a strange problem on my system, they would not wake from standby. Yes my system is somewhat tweaked but no other driver has ever done that before.

Some specifics
P4 2.0
Intel D845BG mobo
Windows XP Pro
Live 5.1

As you may have picked up on I'm not very pro-Creative right now, they cant seem to admit they have a problem, but two of their biggest customers, with 1-800 numbers I might add, have released multiple updates.
This soundcard problem I have lived with but I have owned (tried, thanks BestBuy) three different modems of theirs, and a CompUSA store brand (with Win2K drivers no less) out performed all of them on the first connection and hasnt failed me since. So right now I dont have a very high opinion of Creative Labs.

I just thought I would share my experiences

requiredfield

I dont remember how I did it, but I disabled the agent very easily.

Do the kx drivers sound any different? Anyone tried them with midi?

requiredfield · May 22, 2002, 01:58 AM

I couldnt tell you. I'm not much of an audiophile on a pc anyway. I was after a fix for the snaps, crackles and pops that are in certain apps. I can tell you this they lessened the serverity of them in the troubled apps but in doing so it was spread to other areas, previously unaffected.

skinlab · May 22, 2002, 05:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dallasstar
just drivers:
http://users2.ev1.net/~dallasstar/Cr...ps/drivers.ace

full package:
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp2...00/SP20920.exe

these were released in May 2002 (or maybe April)

im downloading the full package.
is it just for XP or win2k or what? and will i need to uninstall the previous drivers/software as well?

skinlab · May 22, 2002, 05:34 AM

nevermind

i downloaded it, and as soon as u run the installer, read file pops up and says what version

it's for winXP pro and corporate, so i guess i cant install it on win2k, good thing i have a cable connection, so i didnt waste much time downloading it

can anyone possibly link me to the win2k version of the package?

thx

DallasStar · May 22, 2002, 08:10 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by skinlab
nevermind

i downloaded it, and as soon as u run the installer, read file pops up and says what version

it's for winXP pro and corporate, so i guess i cant install it on win2k, good thing i have a cable connection, so i didnt waste much time downloading it

can anyone possibly link me to the win2k version of the package?

thx

Yes, you can install them on Win2k. They work for Win2k.

syko86 · Jul 9, 2002, 06:45 AM

Just tried it. Works well so far. And there's so many things to tweak/change! Give it a go

.

Maniac · Jul 11, 2002, 10:19 AM

Hm, just installed this Compaq driver release which is said to be the new official one. Works really fine for me so far, but I got one bad problem: GTA3 won't allow me to use EAX, the game says that I wouldn't have the hardware for EAX. Uhm?
Any fixes? Thx in advance...

DallasStar · Jul 11, 2002, 12:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Maniac
Hm, just installed this Compaq driver release which is said to be the new official one. Works really fine for me so far, but I got one bad problem: GTA3 won't allow me to use EAX, the game says that I wouldn't have the hardware for EAX. Uhm?
Any fixes? Thx in advance...

this happens when you install the drivers improperly.

did you use the installer supplied by creative or did you simply decide to go to device manager and manually update?

if you did the latter, then that's why you have the problem. If you did the former, then try reinstalling the drivers...

Maniac · Jul 11, 2002, 12:57 PM

I installed the drivers twice by using the installer provided by creative. The only thing I may try is installing the whole package, because both times I only installed the components of which I thought that I might need em. Will try a complete install tomorrow. So EAX works in GTA3 for you?!

DallasStar · Jul 11, 2002, 01:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Maniac
I installed the drivers twice by using the installer provided by creative. The only thing I may try is installing the whole package, because both times I only installed the components of which I thought that I might need em. Will try a complete install tomorrow. So EAX works in GTA3 for you?!

I don't have GTA3. I have EAX in every app that uses it though.

Maniac · Jul 11, 2002, 02:43 PM

k, thanks for your reply, will try to reinstall it tomorrow...

Necrosis · Jul 11, 2002, 11:01 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dallasstar
I don't have GTA3. I have EAX in every app that uses it though.

What the heck is it with GTA3 and conflicts. Sheesh!!

May 10, 2002, 09:07 AM	#1
Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	Alternative Creative Drivers kX Project Site Hi Folks...if you would like to try something different for your Creative card try these drivers. http://www.kxproject.spb.ru/index.php I've never used them myself, but they come highly recommended.

May 11, 2002, 04:00 PM	#3
Jeff Yarr... I be blind! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 3,191 Rep Power: 80	That would be great, but my Audigy's workin' fine right now (sure no special control panel) I installed them from within device manager, to get rid of Creative's bloat. But now my 8500DV works properly too, I wanted to try them on my PCI128, but alas, no support for THAT card. __________________

May 13, 2002, 11:44 AM	#5
akuma-x DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 27 Rep Power: 0	Cool. Just tried these out and they seem good so far. granted i still get really bad popping in RTCW, JK2 and SS 2 SE. ( but the only time that i have not had popping in thouse games was when i was using the FireGL OGL drivers for my 8500 so i will not go there ) __________________ AMD Athlon XP 1600+ 266FSB / ECS-K7S5A MoBo Radeon 8500 64DDR retail 275/275 ATI TV wonder (not installed at this time) SB live xgamer 5.1 WD 30gig 7200 ATA-100 Harddrive WD 13gig 7200 ATA-66 Harddrive 512 PC2100 DDR Kingston Ram Antec TruePower 430W PS HP 9100 CD writer plus WinXP Pro / Mandrake 9.0 Beta1

May 14, 2002, 12:15 AM	#7
DallasStar Junior Join Date: May 2002 Location: Wave Existence Posts: 2,065 Rep Power: 0	just drivers: http://users2.ev1.net/~dallasstar/Cr...ps/drivers.ace full package: ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp2...00/SP20920.exe these were released in May 2002 (or maybe April) __________________ "A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night." --- Franz Kafka

May 15, 2002, 09:49 AM	#12
bb_forrest DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Any other mirrors? Dallastar's file appears to not be there. Cheers Forrest

May 11, 2002, 02:39 PM	#2
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	I see no one has replied but its got alot of views so I thought I would reply and day thanks for the link. i have a friend with the card who is going to try the set later, ill let you know how it goes.

May 12, 2002, 02:12 PM	#4
high_ping King of the Wicker People Join Date: May 2002 Location: Baton Rouge Posts: 98 Rep Power: 0	As you guys probably know, I am a huge Philips Acoustic Edge fan...however, since I quad boot my main box, I am currently forced to use a SB Live 5.1 xgamer. I had an audigy, but I am embarrassed to say that I broke off two of the resistors when changing out :o So, as everyone knows the drivers for the sb series pretty much sucks in xp, but work flawlessly with the new alsa release in linux. So I am game to try these out. I will let you know my findings...worse case, I reinstall the oems.

May 13, 2002, 06:36 PM	#6
high_ping King of the Wicker People Join Date: May 2002 Location: Baton Rouge Posts: 98 Rep Power: 0	Yep, popping in all games that I have tried...going back to the oems that were relesed in nov. If anyone know of any newer drivers please post em.

May 15, 2002, 02:05 PM	#15
DallasStar Junior Join Date: May 2002 Location: Wave Existence Posts: 2,065 Rep Power: 0	fixed: accidentally wrote www rather than "users2" very sorry for the inconvenience http://users2.ev1.net/~dallasstar/Cr...ps/drivers.ace __________________ "A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night." --- Franz Kafka

May 15, 2002, 08:57 PM	#16
bb_forrest DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Great Just getting them now...... Thanks

May 17, 2002, 05:12 PM	#17
high_ping King of the Wicker People Join Date: May 2002 Location: Baton Rouge Posts: 98 Rep Power: 0	Thanks!

May 22, 2002, 01:46 AM	#18
requiredfield DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	For my first post here I would like to thank dallasstar for trimming the fat off that softpaq, for those of us that are connectionally challenged. Thank You I dont know about anybody else's experience with CTAGENT.DLL, but I have never seen a more persistant file than that one for trying to get out to the internet. My choices were to either let it go or remove it, since it insisted and reinsisted with every browser window I opened (and when you say no with ZA you need to open another browser window) it wanted out and wanted to take many, many more dll's with it. I had to go into safe mode to delete it. So far no ill effects and nothing else wanting to get out to the internet. One other thing, it did a job on the volume of the system, I now have a few apps that are louder (quite a bit) than the rest of the system. I had initially thought the drivers didnt take or had installed poorly, until I turned my speaker volume to 3/4 (external, normally at 1/4). The system volume (control panel) is one notch short of full now (two or three from the left before) and the speaker volume (externally) is at 1/2 to get the same volume. I would also like to mention the kX drivers, for which I thank Necrosis for making me aware of. I tried those first, for me no real improvement except that they were not a Creative product. Also they had a strange problem on my system, they would not wake from standby. Yes my system is somewhat tweaked but no other driver has ever done that before. Some specifics P4 2.0 Intel D845BG mobo Windows XP Pro Live 5.1 As you may have picked up on I'm not very pro-Creative right now, they cant seem to admit they have a problem, but two of their biggest customers, with 1-800 numbers I might add, have released multiple updates. This soundcard problem I have lived with but I have owned (tried, thanks BestBuy) three different modems of theirs, and a CompUSA store brand (with Win2K drivers no less) out performed all of them on the first connection and hasnt failed me since. So right now I dont have a very high opinion of Creative Labs. I just thought I would share my experiences requiredfield

May 22, 2002, 01:58 AM	#20
requiredfield DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	I couldnt tell you. I'm not much of an audiophile on a pc anyway. I was after a fix for the snaps, crackles and pops that are in certain apps. I can tell you this they lessened the serverity of them in the troubled apps but in doing so it was spread to other areas, previously unaffected.

May 22, 2002, 05:34 AM	#22
skinlab Got Satan? Join Date: May 2002 Location: was in Canada, now in UAE Posts: 286 Rep Power: 0	nevermind i downloaded it, and as soon as u run the installer, read file pops up and says what version it's for winXP pro and corporate, so i guess i cant install it on win2k, good thing i have a cable connection, so i didnt waste much time downloading it can anyone possibly link me to the win2k version of the package? thx __________________ Religion is the opiate of the masses - Marx God is dead - Nietzsche X-pider2 + Enermax 465 / P4P800-DX / 2.6C@3.25 / 1GIG XMS 4000PT/ R9800PRO / Audigy2 ZS / 80gig WD SE + 160gig Maxtor SE + 200gig Maxtor PS3100 External / Plextor Premium + BenQ DW1640 / other stuff

Jul 9, 2002, 06:45 AM	#24
syko86 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 130 Rep Power: 0	Just tried it. Works well so far. And there's so many things to tweak/change! Give it a go . __________________ "Shoot Yourself In The Head, A Better Life Is Ahead." "Who do you side?" "Myself, of course." http://shux-inspir3.spydar.com Shucky Poets

Jul 11, 2002, 10:19 AM	#25
Maniac DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Frankfurt - Germany Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	Hm, just installed this Compaq driver release which is said to be the new official one. Works really fine for me so far, but I got one bad problem: GTA3 won't allow me to use EAX, the game says that I wouldn't have the hardware for EAX. Uhm? Any fixes? Thx in advance... __________________ If it's stupid but works, it's not stupid.

Jul 11, 2002, 12:57 PM	#27
Maniac DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Frankfurt - Germany Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	I installed the drivers twice by using the installer provided by creative. The only thing I may try is installing the whole package, because both times I only installed the components of which I thought that I might need em. Will try a complete install tomorrow. So EAX works in GTA3 for you?! __________________ If it's stupid but works, it's not stupid.

Jul 11, 2002, 02:43 PM	#29
Maniac DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Frankfurt - Germany Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	k, thanks for your reply, will try to reinstall it tomorrow... __________________ If it's stupid but works, it's not stupid.