"Final" Creative sound card drivers for Windows Vista
Thu, 03/15/2007 - 09:57 — Ciprian
In the last few days Creative quietly released new versions of their Windows Vista drivers for their line of sound cards. We rushed to the download page and installed the new versions. After testing the drivers on our Audigy 2 ZS sound cards and reading the release notes we noticed that there is little improvement compared to the old beta versions.
Plenty of issues remained unsolved, some of which are acknowledged by Creative:
* Applications from the original Sound Blaster Audigy CD will not work with this download.
* Users are advised to use Audio Console included in this download to change speaker configurations.
* This driver does not support the following:
o Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS™ signals
o DVD-Audio
o DirectSound®-based EAX games
o Gameports
o 6.1 speaker mode.
* SPDIF passthrough is supported on Vista 32-bit only.
Unfortunately the quality of these drivers deserves the tag "beta" and not "final". On the support forums lots of people report problems and are pretty upset with the situation.
Hopefully, Creative will release new updates pretty soon. If you would like to know more about the Windows Vista driver availability for Creative products please check the Support Pages.
In the meantime we will try to keep you posted of any important driver updates.
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cant hold my driver
im using window vista os. after i install my sound card, i reboot my desktop,and then i need to instal back my sound driver...why it happen, everytime i turn on my desktop..how to solve it
Hi i m raen, I installed win
Hi i m raen,
I installed win vista home premium in my pc.I m using Dual core 1.8;1 GB 800 bus speed DDR2 RAM,intel DG31PR motherboard.I just upgrade my pc to pentium 4 to dual core.My sound card is creative sound blaster Live value 5:1 (2001).And this sound card is connected in my PCI slot.But i m facing problem in my windows.It tooks to much time to turn on.During turn on windows my monitor turned off & switch to power saving mode & the red light of my CPU is on.I can't see microsoft corporation loading bar & vista logo.I can see direct my account (password required) page.Then i enter my password & see my desktop.I also clear all my unnecessary start up programs.And my built in LAN is also disable that time.
But if i restart then everything is ok.Everythink runs smoothly.I can see loading bar Vista logo before password required page.And my LAN is also enabled that time.during that time if i restart my pc saveral times i get the same result.
I am facing same problem if i want to open my pc after 1hour after safe turning off my pc.
Plz i need a solution.Plz tell me what should i do.
type of Creative Soundcard i m using?
i had purchased this Creative Sound Blaster Audigy since 2004. it works with my old PC but not with vista.
i login Creative website but don't know which type of driver i should download ?
what i know the packaging is written 24 bit & Asian Special Edition.
stereomix
i have a dell xps 420,creative soundblaster x-fi extreme gammer but no stereo mix.i would like to have a stereomix or what u hear.is there any solution.ty
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