Comments on: Enable CMSS of Creative Sound Blaster Live! 24-Bit External in Vista x86 and X64

By: Scott Zarnke

Scott Zarnke — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:20:41 +0000

By: Scott Zarnke

Scott Zarnke — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:18:38 +0000

I had the problem with “audio device supported by this application is not detected” when I first started with the Live 24-bit External. I’m using Vista Business 32-bit. Initially, I used the CD that came with it, along with letting Windows search for a better driver. The one it found actually had an unidentified version.

Anyway, what I did then was to go to Creative’s support page and find the page for this device. Under downloads, I expanded it by clicking show all downloads. There I found driver versions 1.1.02 as well as a new beta version 1.1.92. Downloaded the beta and also a version of the Creative Audio Center, version 1.10.12. I uninstalled the old driver (including deleting it) and all of the installed software. Then I put the new beta driver on (which includes Creative’s Audio Control Panel that has the settings to set 5.1 vs 2.1, etc), and then installed the new Audio Center. The Audio Center has the Speaker Settings, EAX Settings, Surround Mixer, etc that all work now.

I’m not sure if it just needed that new Audio Center, or if the beta driver was needed, too. You could try with the 1.1.02 version to see if that works if you don’t want to use the beta.

Also, the new Audio Center also has CMSS settings now, so the instructions of this article might not be needed not. Again, I don’t know if that’s just because of the new Audio Center or the beta driver.

By: unsatisfied

unsatisfied — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:55:48 +0000

followed this all to the absolute letter on a fresh install of windows and it flat out didn’t work… waste of time

By: Sam Morris

Sam Morris — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:56:16 +0000

End of the line for the SB Live External by the looks of things. The last of the official drivers no longer supports this card, failing with a “please insert disc” message.
This is the only way to install the card, but relies on the OS detecting the card as a ‘USB Audio Device’ – this is only possible with a fresh install of Vista. Once the card has come up as ‘Sound Blaster Live 24-Bit External’, it cannot be reverted to ‘USB Audio Device’, even if that specific driver is installed on top.

By: SH

SH — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:05:24 +0000

Cheers…

I was lukin for this.. helped me a lot m8

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:10:47 +0000

Just thought I’d say that Creatives new beta drivers for this (Created for Windows 7, but may work in Vista I’m told) enable CMSS-3D as an option by default. So you can use the newest drivers and have full functionality of your card

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:02:06 +0000

So I had this up and working in vista, installed the Windows 7 beta on a partition and can’t seem to get it to work on it… too bad

By: Ray M

Ray M — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:41:54 +0000

Hey,

Thanks for this tip, but I have some issues.

I followed everything you wrote on the site. And everything works, I see the power lit, and the cmss light on on the sound card.

Heres the problem, when I go to spk setting or device control or eax setting, I get a error message saying:

“The audio device supported by this application is not detected. The application will exit.”

I do not know what I did wrong, I uninstalled everything and re-did it again, but same results.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

By: sayeem

sayeem — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:37:13 +0000

thanks a lot Carl! looking forward to trying this out. what operating system are you using though?

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:27:29 +0000

hey sayeem…
sorry, I switched servers and you can view my guide below. any questions leave them there

http://www.projektnepa.com/carl/?p=313

By: sayeem

sayeem — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:22:10 +0000

hey, i installed the card as refered to in this page, same thing, the audio not supported. Hey Carl, i tried your link for traktor 3 as im trying the same thing here. i had no trouble doing this on xp. just cant figure out what’s happening. Can you help me out?

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:53:47 +0000

Thank You So much for posting this. It took me days to get Traktor 3 DJ software to rechognize all channels of the Creative Soundblaster Live!, but thanks to your help I figured it out and have a step-by-step on how to configure Traktor to work with this card, here: Traktor 3 and SB Live!

By: zetoh

zetoh — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:16:44 +0000

“the audio device supported by this apllication is not netected. The application will exit.”

this is what I receive while launching the reative speaker settings.

so this hack does not work for me . does anybody know the workaround ????

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:52:13 +0000

Thanks in advance.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:51:40 +0000

Ok, so I followed this guide through to the letter, and it was working fine up until step 16. (”The audio device supported by this application is not detected.”) I definitely extracted rather than the installed the basic audio package. From what hellangel77 said, I tried to find the Vista application for the SB Live External card, but the line seems to have been discontinued; the only software that I found that seemed remotely close to what had been suggested specifically said “DO NOT use with SB Live External”. Help!?!?

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:24:06 +0000

This works great! It is the only one that works! Go for it. And yes, be careful. The person said “extract using winrar” or the other programs, this means put it in a folder(s) that you can find and link back to.