Support for Audigy with Vista - Posting from Neowin site might be helpful to some

[Smitty1258]

From a thread over at neowin

and you have a Creative EMU10K1 or EMU10K2 (Audigy/Audigy2) based card? You'll want to read this. (Especially if you're running Vista)

The kX Driver Package is a completely independent, lightweight driver set that has been around for years now. The sound quality is phenomenal compared to the stock Creative drivers. Full Vista support has been around for a while. Unfortunately X-Fi users are still out of luck as kX does not support them.

I've been using these since I got my original Audigy card a few months after it came out. I still use that same card in my Dual-Core system because the sound quality is so crisp and clean.

Seriously, if you have an Audigy or Audigy 2, and you want to use the card in Vista without a hitch, give kX a whirl.

Latest Version: http://download.kxproject.lugosoft.c...3538m-full.exe
Forums: http://www.driverheaven.net/kx-proje...support-forum/

Here is a whole list of ppl who got it to work.

http://forums.creative.com/creativel...cending&page=1

But I only see one person saying EAX works with vista with these drivers.
Can anyone here with Vista confirm this to work?


Best comment from that creative forum link...

Amazing how a Russian guy can write working drivers in his bedroom, yet the company who took our money makes no effort.

Just looking for some comformation, someone with Vista and an Audigy card(maybe audigy 2 zs ) and maybe cod2 with EAX turned on to see if these drivers do indeed work

[stormy]

Amazing how a Russian guy can write working drivers in his bedroom

That's because he doesn't have to deal with DS3D, EAX and OpenAL, lack of hardware support.

All the games that I am playing in Vista at the moment are OpenAL games and they sound as good if not a bit better (definitely not worse) than in XP. I also have the latest X-Fi drivers installed on my Audigy 4, and they sound better than the last Audigy driver.

Microsoft made enough changes to how audio works in Vista, so tell me how the KX drivers are of any benefit if they remove the one thing I use my card for?

[Smitty1258]

Originally Posted by stormy

That's because he doesn't have to deal with DS3D, EAX and OpenAL, lack of hardware support.

All the games that I am playing in Vista at the moment are OpenAL games and they sound as good if not a bit better (definitely not worse) than in XP. I also have the latest X-Fi drivers installed on my Audigy 4, and they sound better than the last Audigy driver.

Microsoft made enough changes to how audio works in Vista, so tell me how the KX drivers are of any benefit if they remove the one thing I use my card for?

Im pretty sure that those xfi drivers wont work for an Audigy 2

[stormy]

How much would you like to bet?

I have even had the X-Fi drivers installed on an old Audigy ES (that's ES, not SE). All it takes to extract the downloaded driver file, go to the Driver folder and run the setup.exe found there. Alternatively you can install manually through Device Manager but selecting Update driver and pointing it to the Wdm folder.

Creative has had a unified driver for most Audigy (not the LS/SE/DE/Value) and X-Fi (not the Xtreme Audio) cards for at least a year and a half now. The only difference between the X-Fi driver package and the Audigy one is the base .exe (the downloaded driver file), but after extracting can be installed using the methods above in both Vista and XP.

[Smitty1258]

Originally Posted by stormy

How much would you like to bet?

I have even had the X-Fi drivers installed on an old Audigy ES (that's ES, not SE). All it takes to extract the downloaded driver file, go to the Driver folder and run the setup.exe found there. Alternatively you can install manually through Device Manager but selecting Update driver and pointing it to the Wdm folder.

Creative has had a unified driver for most Audigy (not the LS/SE/DE/Value) and X-Fi (not the Xtreme Audio) cards for at least a year and a half now. The only difference between the X-Fi driver package and the Audigy one is the base .exe (the downloaded driver file), but after extracting can be installed using the methods above in both Vista and XP.

hey i didnt know that.

So will EAX work in vista using the xfi drivers with my audigy 2 zs?

If i understand what you say correctly, then your response should be yes.

let me know.

All im really trying to do here, is get EAX to work in COD2 on Vista, using my audigy 2 zs

[stormy]

So will EAX work in vista using the xfi drivers with my audigy 2 zs?

Yes as long as the game uses OpenAL. Same applies to both the X-Fi and Audigy drivers. One thing is at least to my ears the X-Fi drivers are much cleaner, crisper sounding than the last Audigy set.

Unfortunately for everything else that uses DS3D we need to wait for Creative to release Alchemy. Either that or find someone that can hack/modify the existing Alchemy that works on the X-Fi to work on the Audigy. As far as Alchemy not working on the Audigy's that is just Creative being jackasses as there is nothing that Alchemy provides that the Audigy's don't already support. It is all in the way they coded it to look for an X-Fi and EAX5, which is all fine and dandy but EAX5 is only supported under OpenAL and not DS3D; with the Audigy's fully supporting OpenAL and EAX4.

I have seen one person on the Creative forums claim to have modified either the dll or the exe (or both) and managed to get Alchemy fully working on his Audigy. Only problem there is no one has heard from him since.

As far as the KX drivers go I agree that for listening to movies and music they are far better than anything that Creative has put out driver-wise. Unfortunately when it comes to games, they leave a lot to be desired. I have used them before, albeit quite a while ago on an old SB Live, but like I said for music and movies they were great. When I had my Live I had even managed to find a link that explained how to modify the Audigy 2 drivers and apps to work on the Live (too bad the link is dead now), something like the YouP-Pax drivers, only I found it before the YouP's came out.

[Smitty1258]

what a bummer

less than 1 year ago, over $100 on a sound card, and vista has been out over 6 months now.