How to enable Creative Software in Vista with SBLive 5.1 Digi

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******NOTE: This workaround involves using a 3rd party driver, and is not officially supported by Creative Labs ******
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***this solution seems a little hit and miss, i have had everything working for two days but just installed the latest ATI 7.2 catalyst driver and what do you know, the only thing that works now is wave studio, all other programs put the windows "this program has stopped working" message. I do not know whether or not this is directly related to the ATI driver or a windows update, but i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling everything. It has worked and i assume still does for some people....so this is not a guaranteed solution, it seems to be down to each machine as to whether this workaround works. I still have working sound, and its just as good, just no EAX anymore, and the functionality of most the programs seems to have disappeared. Still probably worth a try and you have nothing to lose*** I believe i have found a solution for users of SoundBlaster Live 5. Digital users on Vista. This workaround may support other soundblaster live cards, i have only been able to test it on mine so far so if anyone wants to test other cards, please let me know so we can add them to this list. This workaround should allow you to install your creative software from your installation disk, with a high level of functionality in VISTA, as well as getting your SBLive card working very nicely. So far, i have managed to use:
Playcentre, with all options including EAX Recorder, althought it will only let you record from the microphone EAX control panel, including modifying, importing and exporting of all Enviroments, FX and EQs Wavestudio - fully operational Audio HQ - Speakers and surround mixer dont work - EAX control panel will deal with most of this, and going to the sound option in Vista control panel will let you enable bass/treble and speaker config. Windows DriversMindisc Studio - This seems to work, although i no longer have a minidisc so cant confirm to what extent Remote Centre - as above. To actually achieve this is relatively simple, but i think a few people havent done all the steps, just the first few, and are left a bit confused as to how to set it up. If you follow these steps you should have nothing to set up, by the last step you should have a system which thinks it has a SBlive installed, and all the standard creative software in the start menu, to use almost as normal. It is relatively uncomplicated to do and takes about 5-20 minutes.
STEP ONE If your card is currently installed IE: it appears as recognised in the device manager, begin by uninstalling it. You should ideally begin this whole process with your card uninstalled. STEP TWO Download the following driver:http://download.kxproject.lugosoft.com/downloads/kxdrv3538m-full.exe
** This is a third party driver and is not endorsed or supported by creative.
What this driver will do is allow your pc to recognise your SBlive. Download the driver somewhere convienient EG: desktop. Do not install yet
STEP THREE Reboot your system, and when the popup comes up asking where drivers are , ignore and close them - do not direct the systems to the drivers as you are going to install them yourself. Once you have shut all the popup windows and driver requests, Click on the KXDRV3538m-full.exe you should have on your desktop. This will unpack the drivers and should automatically run the installation program. Follow the onscreen prompts to fully install the driver and the KX software. Once you have followed this installation, you should be asked to reboot, do so and when you reload you should have sound when you logon to windows.
This is only half of the solution, you must continue the with next steps
STEP FOUR - CREATIVE SOFTWARE Ok so now you want to put all the creative software you were used to on XP onto your system. This as is straightforward as you could want it to be - simply put your creative disk in and install the card drivers and software as per usual, you should have no errors and the install should complete in 5-0 minutes - As per usual you will be asked to restart which is fine.
STEP FIVE - Completed When windows loads up now you should still have sound, except now your system recognises your card - and by going into the start menu you should find that nearly all creative programs that you installed - with the exception of surround mixer will work, in some cases with full functionality. Please refer to the top of the thread to see what programs offer what. ***Other required workaroundsTo enable the microphone in Recorder, you must right click on the .exe in the root folder(C:/Program files/Creative/Programs/...), select Properties > compatability and set it to XP SP2
***Notes Bass, treble and speaker settings can be found in the Sound option on the control panel, OPEN sound, click on speakers (SBLIVE) and there will be an option TONE. Bizarrely these sliders dont slide - clicking on them activates them and sets them to the middle, but you can not change them. However it sets it to the right amount, so any bass/treble problems can be resolved using the EQ in your audio player, or in the EAX control panel. To my knowledge, once you have completed stage five, you can actually uninstall the KX drivers that you installed in Step Two. This driver is only needed to allow you to install the official Creative Drivers and everything should still function after the uninstall of the KX driver. You must follow all steps to get your creative software working. i currently have the following programs working in VISTA:
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***I must also add that i am not responsible for these drivers, and will not take the credit for them as that would be highly unfair on the guy (whose name i dont know) who went to all the effort to create them. I simply tried his drivers, and then tried installing the creative software once i had which is how i got to writing this guide. As you can see from the screengrab above, this worked.
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******NOTE: This workaround involves using a 3rd party driver, and is not officially supported by Creative Labs ******

Answer 1

Hi Don,
I did answer a similar question but of course cannot find the thread anymore.
Your expression to increment the counter is OK. In CP5 the increment action is not listed anymore in the dropdown lists of the advanced action.
In your analysis you do forget this: the user can rollover twice on the same area, not? And do you want all text captions to remain visible once they have been made visible?
Perhaps another approach: create a user variable for each Rollover slidelet, initially set to 0. In the action executed on Rollover check first if its variable = 1, in that case only the Text Caption has to be made invisible again (in case you hide it when other rollover areas are activated), if it is 0, you change the variable to 1, add it to your counter, show the Text Caption and hide the other Text Captions, and then only check the value of the counter, if it is 4 you show the button (or enable it, but I do not like to show a disabled button to a user).
As for using a counter to do something, I have used something like that in my Menu Template (second use case). Here is the link to that blog post:
Template for reusing scripts
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