Vista - Soundblaster Augdigy drivers won't load and the PC slows to a craw

I had a soundblaster audigy SE card that worked with Vista Beta 2, however
when I upgraded to RC1 the sound card wouldn't work due to driver
incompatibility. I took a Soundblaster Audigy (not an SE) out of my other PC
and downloaded drivers from Creative. The driver load failed twice, but on
the third try it loaded, except when I rebooted, the drivers didn't load and
the PC slowed from 2.8 GHZ to about a 300 Mhz. When I took the sound card
out, the PC ran fine, except obviously no sound. Are there any drivers that
will work in the 32-bit Vista RC1 with the soundblaster Audigy? Creative's
website doesn't list a specific driver for the Audigy, however the driver for
an Audigy 2 is supposed to work with the Augidy.

on the creative website, www.creative.com , go to click on the 'support' tab
and click on the 'Discussion Forums'; you'll find many discussions under
'Windows Vista' and people who share your concerns, and some
solutions...good luck.

John
"Harvdog46" <Harvdog46@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Are there any drivers that will work in the 32-bit Vista RC1 with the
> soundblaster Audigy? Creative's
> website doesn't list a specific driver for the Audigy, however the driver
> for an Audigy 2 is supposed to work with the Augidy.

Go to the KXProject Forums to download their driver for Vista. I did and I
love it!!

http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/forums.php?language=en

or

http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?t=118620



"Harvdog46" <Harvdog46@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I had a soundblaster audigy SE card that worked with Vista Beta 2, however
> when I upgraded to RC1 the sound card wouldn't work due to driver
> incompatibility. I took a Soundblaster Audigy (not an SE) out of my other
> PC
> and downloaded drivers from Creative. The driver load failed twice, but
> on
> the third try it loaded, except when I rebooted, the drivers didn't load
> and
> the PC slowed from 2.8 GHZ to about a 300 Mhz. When I took the sound card
> out, the PC ran fine, except obviously no sound. Are there any drivers
> that
> will work in the 32-bit Vista RC1 with the soundblaster Audigy?
> Creative's
> website doesn't list a specific driver for the Audigy, however the driver
> for
> an Audigy 2 is supposed to work with the Augidy.