Soundblaster Live! doesnt sound right

[Geiger9]

I just bought a soundblaster Live! and Im running XP. I've tried downloading the XP drivers and the Liveware 3.0 yet my games still sound crappy. And after I install liveware I cant access the audioHQ to change the EAX settings.

 

[chaps]

You must uninstall all drivers from your previous sound card, even if it was a sound blaster card. We believe that you have a conflict caused by some old sound card drivers (files) that are still active on your system. You may have to do a manual hunt to remove these old drivers. After you hunt them down and remove them (the old drivers) uninstall the current sound card drivers and then do a re-install. You may have to remove the sound device from control panel and then do the install. You may also have to do a reboot and then install. XP is so auto-magic with its built in driver installation process I have had to fight with the system to get the drivers that I wanted installed. XP Pro comes fully loaded with lots of drivers and I have in past let the operating system do the process of sound card driver installion with a sound blaster card using the drivers on the XP Disk- all went well. You can also get correct drivers from the Windows update site.

Mike