Have any luck with the X-Fi beta driver for Vista RC1?

[Ricochet]

I'm running 64-bit RC1. The Soundblaster X-Fi beta driver is not "digitally signed" so I get lots of errors when installing the software. In the end the SB X-Fi shows up in the device manager with a yellow exclamation mark. Right-clicking on device, choose update driver, and directing the proper path to the driver folder does not work either.

Anybody in the same situation who has better luck than I?

 

[thereaderrabbit]

I gave up getting this to work a good while back. For a short time Windows Update tried to fix the issue, but the instal failed and MS quickly pulled the patch. No word on when we'll get a driver that works, but I do have sound via my motherboard for now

-Reader

 

[Noema]

Mine works but the sound leaves a lot to be desired. The card crackles a lot under Vista with the beta drivers, which doesn't happen in XP.

 

[Ricochet]

Well, cripes. Looks like I'm gonna have to wait 'til the official release then. At least for now, the built-in mb sound will have to do.

 

[SynthDude2001]

You have to disable the signed driver check at every boot (F8) to run unsigned drivers on Vista x64 now. I have to do the same thing for my Audigy 2.

Edit: I'm actually using the XP64 drivers for my card, because as far as I can tell the Vista drivers are far less feature-complete at this point. I'm not sure if the same thing applies to the X-fi...

 

[Dooyas]

There is a post stickied over at Creative explaining the lack of drivers, I glanced over it earlier, but the short end of it is that they are blaming Vista for changing the way PCI cards are addressed and that EAX may not be viable in Vista.

Post is here

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs...message?board.id=Vista&message.id=1694

 

[Ricochet]

Thanks for the post, guys. Looks like I have a little more reading material from that last link.