Warning SB Live users: Liveware 3.0!!!

For all SBLive usersI downloaded Liveware 3.0 (all 28 megs) and installed it. It created big problems with my resources (PIII 500, 128 ram, Voodoo 3, DX7) and made, for instance, GP500 choppy and slow even on lower settings. Before, it ran smooth maxed-out. Worse, it messed with my Windows drivers, for instance, I could no longer exit Windows 98 through WindowsI'd have to exit or restart manually. I uninstalled Liveware 3.0 and reinstalled the original drivers and everything works fine. Liveware 3.0, BTW, now automatically uninstalls your original Liveware software and drivers. James Larson

>For all SBLive usersa€|I downloaded Liveware 3.0 (all 28 megs) and installed >it. It created big problems with my resources (PIII 500, 128 ram, Voodoo 3, >DX7) and made, for instance, GP500 choppy and slow even on lower settings. >Before, it ran smooth maxed-out. Worse, it messed with my Windows drivers, for >instance, I could no longer exit Windows 98 through Windowsa€|I'd have to exit >or restart manually. I uninstalled Liveware 3.0 and reinstalled the original >drivers and everything works fine. >Liveware 3.0, BTW, now automatically uninstalls your original Liveware software >and drivers. >James Larson Everything fine here - LW 3.0 offered more clear sound to me and more game profiles than 2.1. Something is wrong....Have you tried to disable the Live! Launcher? It has some bugs that behave as you described. -- /---------------\ Mika Takala ICQ 14314015

I have the same problem with liveware 3.0 win 98 never shuts down now, it always just restarts, and I noticed it has eaten up huge amounts of resources. They need a patch for this.

I'm using Liveware3.0 with no problems or slowdowns at all. Win98 STB Velocity TNT AGP 128 meg pc100 ram sbLive! value Abit BH6 Mainboard 300a o\c 464 mhz For all SBLive usersI downloaded Liveware 3.0 (all 28 megs) and installed it. It created big problems with my resources (PIII 500, 128 ram, Voodoo 3, DX7) and made, for instance, GP500 choppy and slow even on lower settings. Before, it ran smooth maxed-out. Worse, it messed with my Windows drivers, for instance, I could no longer exit Windows 98 through WindowsI'd have to exit or restart manually. I uninstalled Liveware 3.0 and reinstalled the original drivers and everything works fine. Liveware 3.0, BTW, now automatically uninstalls your original Liveware software and drivers. James Larson

Works fine for me, except I had to reload my fonts for midi the first time. Lutrell >For all SBLive usersI downloaded Liveware 3.0 (all 28 megs) and installed >it. It created big problems with my resources (PIII 500, 128 ram,

Yo! Stay away from Liveware 3.0. It adds nothing useful, but may cause alot of trouble. For those of you who uses soundfonts, Liveware 3.0 is a true disaster. It erases your soundfont settings after each reboot. Also, my previous EAX-settings disapperared. Liveware 3.0 isn't worth the download. Jon

I couldn't even get the POS (piece of software, of course...) to install correctly on my system...

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> Yo! > Stay away from Liveware 3.0. It adds nothing useful, but may cause alot of > trouble. For those of you who uses soundfonts, Liveware 3.0 is a true > disaster. It erases your soundfont settings after each reboot. Also, my > previous EAX-settings disapperared. > Liveware 3.0 isn't worth the download. > Jon > > For all SBLive users.I downloaded Liveware 3.0 (all 28 megs) and

installed > > it. It created big problems with my resources (PIII 500, 128 ram, Voodoo > 3, > > DX7) and made, for instance, GP500 choppy and slow even on lower settings.

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> > Before, it ran smooth maxed-out. Worse, it messed with my Windows > drivers, for > > instance, I could no longer exit Windows 98 through Windows.I'd have to > exit > > or restart manually. I uninstalled Liveware 3.0 and reinstalled the > original > > drivers and everything works fine. > > Liveware 3.0, BTW, now automatically uninstalls your original Liveware > software > > and drivers. > > James Larson

I have to disagree, Liveware3.0 reduces the size of your registry by over 3MB! That may not seem like much and I am sure people are saying who care about and extra 3MB on my hard drive, but I am talking about 3MB of keys and values written as text into your registry, over 14,000 lines of text now gone. Each and every one of those lines had the potential to crash your computer. SB made a big leap forward in reducing the footprint the SB Live made on you computers operating system. I have had no problem since installing Liveware 3.0 and by the way the readme did explain how to save and restore your EAX settings. To email me remove the "u"s

> Works fine for me, except I had to reload my fonts for midi the first time. > Lutrell I can't even install the ***! It decompresses everything, tells me about starting the setup, and that's it. The system doesn't freeze, it just never starts the setup... l8er ronny -- The box said "Windows 95 or better", so I installed LINUX! |\ _,,,---,,_ I want to die like my Grandfather, ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ in his sleep. |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Not like the people in his car, '---''(_/--' `-'\_) screaming their heads off!

I agree, no problems here either with Liveware 3.0 -- Don Burnette Dburn in N3 and Legends

Before LW 3 my cpu was perfect, after LW 3 I have had nothing but crashes, freezwes, and heart attacks. what's up with this then?

Yo! I may be that Liveware 3.0 makes sence, but I cannot see how. Firstly, I had trouble installing the thing. By reading postings in creative.prooducts.sound_blaster.live, I have found that this is a common problem. I had problems also, but in a mysterious way, the thing installed eventually. Secondly, installing Liveware 3 is a bad thing if you have been using SoundFonts. Liveware 3.0 resets your Soundfont settings each time you turn on your computer. I had to edit the registry manually to fix this problem. It may be that Liveware 3.0 reduces the size of the registry. It most certainly deleted my SoundFont informations from the registry. If you are happy with a previos version of Liveware, stay away from LiveWare 3.0. In my opinion, it adds - if anything - nothing but trouble. Jon

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> I have to disagree, Liveware3.0 reduces the size of your registry by > over 3MB! That may not seem like much and I am sure people are saying > who care about and extra 3MB on my hard drive, but I am talking about > 3MB of keys and values written as text into your registry, over 14,000 > lines of text now gone. Each and every one of those lines had the > potential to crash your computer. SB made a big leap forward in > reducing the footprint the SB Live made on you computers operating > system. I have had no problem since installing Liveware 3.0 and by > the way the readme did explain how to save and restore your EAX > settings. > >Yo! > >Stay away from Liveware 3.0. It adds nothing useful, but may cause alot

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> >trouble. For those of you who uses soundfonts, Liveware 3.0 is a true > >disaster. It erases your soundfont settings after each reboot. Also, my > >previous EAX-settings disapperared. > >Liveware 3.0 isn't worth the download. > >Jon > To email me remove the "u"s