Well, you a kind of stuck.. Either you can stick with the Microsoft provided drivers and not have all the features you are used to, or , you can go with the Liveware 3.0 For Windows 2000 from creative, available for download at www.sblive.com .
 
Here's the catch - the drivers from creative are absolutely horrible under windows 2000.. When they work right, it sounds fine, but wow, under most games, forget it , you might was well listen to a cat with it's tail put into a light socket that has been turned on with no bulb in it.. I gave up on my live and gave it to my ex-wife in favor of a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz card..
 
creative's drivers for windows 2000 are plagued with problems that literally thousands upon thousands of people have complained about, but yet, creative refuses to acknowledge there are even issues.
 
All I can say is, good luck!
 
Devildog

thanks for the reply, i had just tried the creative lw3 drivers and srill the options are greyed out. strange anyother ideas?
 
Tom

EAX is disabled in Giants by default IIRC. You have to enable it with a command-line parameter, though I have no idea what it is.

Ah, here it is:
 
Copy all the files from the folder EAL on the first Giants cd into your Giants directory. Right click on your Giants shortcut and add the line -snd3d after the Giants.exe in the target field.

will try this when i get home, if it works many thanks in advanced.
 
Tom

If you enable it then your game will probably slow down alot.

many thanks to all who replied, Xiven your idea worked fine, now i have the options.
PsychoSword: unfortunatly at 1280X1024 with quincunx FSAA it did slow it down a bit too much (runs fine without it), so i have to drop it to 1024X768 with quincunx FSAA to play smooooooth. oh well i may just try it at 1280X1024 without fsaa to see how it runs then (ill stop it now shall i).
 
 
Tom