Fix for Liveware 3.0 installation problems

[Laddyboy 0]

Ok Guys, After 4 straight days (about 3 weeks ago), three fights with my wife, 2 shot glasses, and a formated WD harddrive.(sung to the 12 days of christmas...hehe) I finally reinstalled Win2K last night and tried to install Liveware! 3.0. I followed the liveware 31 instructions (not the ones just released) with a few additions. 1. disable Irq steering

2. disable modem speaker

3. disable Unimodem half-duplex audio device.(this is the one that finally allowed the fix to work).

All is working fine now, I have great sound, 4 or 2 speaker support, surround support, everything appears to be working great.

After I extracted the program I think (it was late) I had to rename that setup_ex file to setup.exe (like in the 30 fix.) and ran the rest of the setup from there. Again this is a I THINK, try following the instructions first and if it hangs try renaming the above mentioned file. If you need help I promise I will answer you post. Just give me time as I am in the USA and most of you are about 5 hrs ahead of me...

 

Good Luck

[SHS 0]

hehehe frist part is funny but I hope didn't real fights with your wife over this ?.

Maybe that why it works for me & not everyone esle I don't have modem in my system Hmm.

This maybe the key all of it "disable Irq steering" wierd my BIOS is set PnP OS in fact evenything set PnP other then Manuel assign each PCI Slot.

[Laddyboy 0]

No I didn't fight with my wife, it just fit in the song.

I guess the wave device on the modem is causing some kind of conflict with the SBL card.

[RoGuE 0]

well ive gone through tne instructions several times and all ive managed to do is get sound....i dont have a modem {internet behind a zyxel isdn router} and i get stuck on step #3.....if you can help me with this give me a jingle at quakin@swbell.net

[RoGuE 0]

and oh yeah, is there newer revised instructios besides? im using the instructions found on this site

[Laddyboy 0]

Rogue:The latest instructions are the ones on the front page. Thos are not the ones I used. I used the previous instructions. The new ones are a little different. I haven't tried those yet. When I installed the 4.0 drivers I had no sound at all but I continued to follow the instructions. Is the launcher at the top of your screen just not coming down? If you can see it there and you put your mouse there and it won't come down try clicking you left mouse button. It is not set to come down by just putting your mouse there. If this is not what you are talking about in step three please be more specific.

[RoGuE 0]

no the drop menu comes down...but i dont have any sound. then the computer hangs when its booting up....cant load the live menu. then if i uninstall the liveware 3.0 and reboot into safe mode and re run the run.cmd i get sound back....i dont have 4 speaker support and i have sound but its got a lot of reverb in it....

[Laddyboy 0]

sounds like something went array somewhere. I would suggest reinstalling 4.0 drivers thru the device manager. Then reboot even if it doesn't prompt you too. Just a note, my sound card and speakers work fine even though the properties tab says that no drivers are installed for the device. Just make sure you are copying the drivers from the Audio\english\NT4drv. From what I gather....Liveware! can't see the win2k drivers and therefore won't load the plugin and does not initialize correctly. If you just want to remove the reverb problem go to the environment tab and back the reverb down to 0%.

 

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[Kr0mE 0]

I got Liveware up and running, and it sounds every bit as good as it did in win98...the only problem is, i have no sound in Unreal Tournament ( even after a fresh install of the game) and choppy sound in Q3 test.

anybody have any ideas?