ESS ES1970-3D (Canyon3D) Free Driver Download

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Supported Models

ES1970-3D (Canyon3D) Driver

Manufacturers

ESS

Supported Operating Systems

Windows NT4, Windows NT3.51

File Name

SC988_v18_40237.zip (1.0 MB)

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Uploader Notes

Used in Taiwan distributed (Generic) Model SC988 Sound Card. Sound Card sold in USA under CompUSA (house brand) "PCI Five Channel Surround Sound Card" SKU #274757

Drivers are for generic ESS 2/2E Maestro chip set also.

Uploaded By

Jeff Creamer (DG Member) on 10-Oct-2000

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

AntonS
Tested on Windows 98SE

25 Oct 2008
(10 minutes after download)

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"The driver ES197X.VXD ver 4.12.01.2008 for the ES1970S Canyon3D Chipset on the Diamond Multimedia MX400 fails drastically on my system Win98SE. The other files in the self-extracting zip seem older and all seem to work OK except this one.

Thinking that this may be erroneously included for Win 2000, XP etc. If its version no. relates to the date it seems a bit young fo

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Phil

5 Aug 2004

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"Good for the most part , lost it trying to change sound cards. Hope to go back to orgional setting."

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Allen
Tested on Windows XP

10 Nov 2007

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"after 5 other attemps w/five other programs this one started my sound card and fixed my computer."

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Graham Truman

16 Aug 2001

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"The driver does not work on windows 2000, on the ESS ES1930S On board sound."

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Driver Contents File List

The following files are found inside the driver download file.

Name	Size	Date
ESSSWT.DLS	1.1 MB	14 Apr 1999
CONFIG.INI	2.4 KB	14 Apr 1999
ESSSWT.DAT	56.7 KB	14 Apr 1999
MAESTRO.DLL	53.8 KB	14 Apr 1999
MMDRV.DLL	20.5 KB	14 Apr 1999
ESSAPM.EXE	21.0 KB	14 Apr 1999
MAESTRO.SYS	232.9 KB	14 Apr 1999
OEMSETUP.INF	285 bytes	14 Apr 1999