Creative SB5.1 Utilities don't work under WinXPpro

[Avatar8481]

I recently upgraded to Windows XPpro and have a Soundblaster live 5.1 installed in my computer. It worked well enough under win2kpro but since upgrading has performed very poorly. Driver installations keep crashing and stalling out but I have gotten them installed, however, since then I have not been able to use the AudioHQ functions for selecting my speaker setup, thus rendering my surround setup largely useless. I open the "Speakers" control panel within the AudioHQ and a Microsoft error reporting box appears. I have looked in the event viewer and this is the text for the error:

Faulting application ctsurmix.exe, version 1.1.1.0, faulting module ctsurmix.exe, version 1.1.1.0, fault address 0x00004636.

(eventID 1000)

and then the information event immediately following has the following text:

The application, C:\Program Files\Creative\SBLive2k\SurroundMixer\CTSURMIX.EXE, generated an application error The error occurred on 06/23/2002 @ 22:58:30.327 The exception generated was c0000005 at address 00404636 (CTSURMIX)

(eventID 4097)

Has anybody else had this problem or know of a solution? Thank you very much and I look forward to hearing your suggestions.

Michael Pokorny

 

[williamc]

The only solution is to upgrade and buy creative's latest card, the audigy, which is creatives goal. Or, to upgrade to a TBSC or GTXP.

Sorry, thats the way creative does business, we've been over this already here, Creative support bombs.

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[Avatar8481]

I posted this same problem on another board and got a different answer, basically what I had to do was find the offending application, in this case ctsurmix.exe, and under Properties:Compatability I rolled back the compatability setting to win2k, the system I had it running under before. Now it not runs the application but all the functionality is preseved and I changed my speaker setup the way I'm supposed to be able to. Thanks for your reply though.

 

[williamc]

Interesting, hadn't heard that worked before, in fact, thats the first i've ever heard that those settings actually worked. I guess its a good thing they do... yer lucky your drivers work under xp=) They don't on all configurations, some people have been having actual driver problems.

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