Audigy 2 in Vista?

[snow patrol]

Hello all. I've been running Vista ultimate 32bit for a few days now, and i love it, but i haven't got any sound yet. I'm using an Audigy 2 but there are no drivers available for vista yet. I seem to remember that there were some before, but that they expired. Are Creative simply waiting for Vista to be fully and officially launched before releasing the driver? (although i notice there are still downloadable X-fi drivers, so that doesn't really make much sense).

Any way i can get around this? I think i'm ready to use Vista full time, but the lack of sound means i'm having to keep switching between it and XP...

Many thanks.

 

[Nothinman]

Why not just use your onboard sound until Creative gets their head out of their asses?

 

[InlineFive]

What Nothinman said is pretty much all you can do.

 

[snow patrol]

Ok thanks guys. Luckily, i remebered i had some USB plantronics headphones which i plugged in and they worked straight away. Better than nothing and will tide me over i suppose.

 

[postmortemIA]

if you're savvy, you could use your xp drivers...

 

[jazzboy]

Typical Creative really. It's a shame cos the actual hardware that they make is pretty good (although more competition from someone else would help), yet they're hopeless with drivers.

You could also see if the KX project drivers work. Again they're for XP and haven't been updated since late 2004 but it could be worth a shot.

 

[Nothinman]

Actually their hardware isn't very good either, they're the only company I know of to consistently put out hardware that doesn't share IRQs properly like the PCI2.1 spec requires. I can't even put my SBLive in my current machine because it causes a different problem in every slot.

 

[The J]

Someone on the Creative forums said that the X-Fi drivers will work. Extract the files from the archive (self-extracting exe), and run "Setup.exe" in the Drivers directory. Do not run the setup in the top directory.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs...id=2377&view=by_date_ascending&page=10

 

[xtknight]

The drivers I have are supposed to expire tomorrow. Why the hell do drivers expire? :roll:

I'm going to give kX drivers a try.

 

[snow patrol]

Originally posted by: The J
Someone on the Creative forums said that the X-Fi drivers will work. Extract the files from the archive (self-extracting exe), and run "Setup.exe" in the Drivers directory. Do not run the setup in the top directory.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs...id=2377&view=by_date_ascending&page=10

Wow, thanks! I installed the xfi gamer drivers and they work a treat (although albeit slightly quieter than in xp)

 

[Mem]

snow patrol I saw your thread over at OCuk ,not seen you for awhile on AT, I remember the good old days .



Driver chart below.

Windows Vista? - Driver Availability Chart

Creative continues our commitment to providing superior product support with our driver development plan for Microsoft Windows Vista?.
Creative products not listed here may be classified as discontinued products which will not have additional driver updates within our software development plan.

KEY: Q1 2007 = January to March 2007, Q2 2007 = April to June etc.
Sound Blaster
Internal Product Plan
X-Fi Xtreme Audio Driver available
Other X-Fi Series Cards Driver available
Audigy 4 Pro January 2007
Audigy 4 January 2007
Audigy 2 ZS Series January 2007
Audigy 2 Series January 2007
Audigy LS beta 2 Driver Available
Live! 24-bit (internal) beta 2 Driver Available
Live! Series No Development Planned
Earlier PCI releases No Development Planned
All ISA releases No Development Planned

External Product Plan
Audigy 2 NX End January 2007
Live! 24-bit External End January 2007
MP3+ (EU&US) End January 2007
Digital Music (Asia) End January 2007
Digital Music LX (Asia) End January 2007
Digital Music PX (Japan) End January 2007
Extigy No Development Planned

Link.

 

[Nothinman]

Creative continues our commitment to providing superior product support

Funny, I thought you had to provide adequate support at some point before you can start providing superior support...

 

[Mem]

Funny, I thought you had to provide adequate support at some point before you can start providing superior support...

Hehe..I think most of us will just settle for a driver that works for the official release,or is that asking for too much .

 

[Nothinman]

Hehe..I think most of us will just settle for a driver that works for the official release,or is that asking for too much .

Considering that I can't get my SBLive to work in these standard PCI slots, yea I'd say that's asking too much.

 

[tickyour]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
if you're savvy, you could use your xp drivers...

I've just installed Vista yesterday & loaded my XP Audigy drivers...works perfectly.

 

[Xyclone]

Just did this... works perfectly.