Understanding the 

The installation program modifies your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files.

Installation Program 

The AUTOEXEC.BAT 

The installation program adds the following statements to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:

.ile Settings

SET CTSYN=C:\WINDOWS

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6

C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM

The first two statements set up the environment variables for your audio card. For an explanation 

of the variables, see  Environment Variables  on page B 5. 

The third statement runs SBEINIT.COM which is the SB Live! MS DOS driver. It is required 

for the SB Live! card to function properly under MS DOS mode.

SBEINIT.COM requires the HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE files to be loaded. If needed, the 

installation program adds the necessary HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE lines to your 

CONFIG.SYS file, creating the file if it is not present.

On the rare occasion a program does not work with expanded memory, simply add the NOEMS 

parameter to your memory manager. For example:

DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS

You may load this driver into high memory in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, even though the 

default is not. For example:

LOADHIGH=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\SBLIVE\DOSDRV\SBEINIT.COM

Do not remove the memory manager altogether. Do not attempt to load SBEINIT.COM into 

high memory when using the NOEMS option if SBEINIT.COM fails to run SBELOAD.EXE or 

SBECFG.EXE. In the rare case that an MS DOS game will not work with a memory manager, 

you will not be able to use the SB Live! card with the game.

B 2 SB Emulation in MS DOS/ Windows 95/98/ME