A few months ago i switched to kx drivers,latency in sblive is superb,and just a few days ago my rear out started motorboating and distorting,in kx mixer i swaped the rear to front option,everthing was fine for a few hours,then it to started motorboating and distorting,i put card in another computer and installed the creative drivers and both outs were still doing the same thing,reinstalled kx again,no luck,sound was even more hell,i could hear motors in the computer oscilating in the audio out,could this be the result of using the kx drivers?has anyone out there had similar problems?FLEER.

Sounds to me like your card has just given up the ghost. AFAIK, it has absolutely nothing to do with the KX drivers.

The same problem with that drivers and Live. I think that, these drives, are dedicated rather for Audigy. I've noticed that people with Audigy have no similar problems, like we do.

never had any problems with sb live and kx drivers on my windows box

i run a sb live 5.1 with kx drivers and haven't had any problems..

don't know what you are talking about..

I also have an old Live! Value in one of the computers...
It's working on kX since 1999, with driver/OS/hardware upgrades inbetween.
No problems at all.

Same here.

Thanks for the input,going to buy another sb and give it awhirl,does anyone think that that going back and forth from kx to creative drivers<at least 20 times>,trying to somehow combine the two could have trashed the card,it is only a couple months old,I notice that after removing the card and enabling ac97 again I am getting hissing and static,I need to take this pc to the doctor.
P.S,I am in no way bashing the kx drivers,they were a god send for real time playback of softsynths! FLEER

just a question...have you posted this in the developers forum? what did they say? if this is really a bug they are the only people who can fix it + if there already was a smilar issue they will know for sure

If a driver can trash a soundcard so badly that the analog output motorboats then the designers of the hardware are spectacularly incompetent. I seriously doubt that the engineers at creative are incompetent judging by the fact that they have made some top notch consumer cards over the years.

As far as I know, the KX drivers don't mess with the firmware on the card and the emu10k1 resets it's program each time it is reset. What this means is if the card still doesn't work with another set of drivers it must have failed for another reason.

I would guess this motorboating output is a common failure mode for most soundcards (I would guess a dead cap in one of the analog amplifier circuits causing the amplifier ground to oscillate) so this is why there are two reports on this hapenning with the KX drivers. As my stats prof always says "The plural of anecdote is not data".


Maybe this general unhapiness of your machine killed your Live! Are you sure your PSU is healthy?

Think about trying another card besides a SB. Perhaps a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz or M-Audio Revo.

It's also possible that with reinstalling drivers so many times, something is screwed up in windows. Try a repair install or the card in another computer.