Devldr16.exe
(Creative Labs)
Background task installed with the drivers for some Creative Labs sound cards it provides SoundBlaster 16 emulation for DOS applications and games. Without it, your DOS games will not have any sound. Disabling this program, however, often gives problems with the general behaviour of sound and of the Creative sound utilities on your PC.
Recommendation :
This is another Creative program which is the cause of many frustrations for AnswersThatWork users. Once upon a time "Creative Labs" used to be synonymous with quality ! Some users experience unexplained crashes of this program where it is impossible to clear it off the screen; others experience occasional to total inability to start Windows 98/ME; some find that their modem no longer works properly; others experience strange behaviour of their software (Photoshop); others find that menus do not open up when clicking on them and that the only way to recover is to restart; some find that the mouse pointer disappears, till a reboot; some experience unexplained general instability problems; the list goes on. Shocking! For the technically minded all these problems are due to the fact that DEVLDR16 emulates old ISA sound cards which do not have the ability to share resources in the way that the newer PCI cards can. If you do not use DOS games, and you want to get rid of this task, the only way we have found to safely disable this task is as follows : 1) Disable in Startup Manager. 2) Next, in Device Manager, in the Sound section or under "Creative Miscellaneous Devices", disable Creative SB16 Emulation .