For a while there Creative was doing pretty good releasing driver updates
for the audigy serives on Windows Vista (32/64). I just went to their
website and a driver search pulled up no results for the audigy all of the
sudden, when they previously at least had the (usless) october build for a
late beta 2 (or was it RC1?). At any rate, any one hear that Creative was
pulling support for the audigy in vista? That would be pretty sad to hear,
and not jive with what I just read on their website.



Carlo Razzeto

/Carlo Razzeto/ said:

> For a while there Creative was doing pretty good releasing driver updates
> for the audigy serives on Windows Vista (32/64). I just went to their
> website and a driver search pulled up no results for the audigy all of the
> sudden, when they previously at least had the (useless) october build for a
> late beta 2 (or was it RC1?). At any rate, any one hear that Creative was
> pulling support for the audigy in vista? That would be pretty sad to hear,
> and not jibe with what I just read on their website.

http://www.creative.com/support/vista/

I have heard nothing contrary to the official word. Check into their
forums.

I think they pulled the beta drivers from their site because they expire
tomorrow (01/12/07). Hopefully, they'll have some kind of replacement up
today (I'm not holding my breath, though).


"Carlo Razzeto" <crazzeto@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> For a while there Creative was doing pretty good releasing driver updates
> for the audigy serives on Windows Vista (32/64). I just went to their
> website and a driver search pulled up no results for the audigy all of the
> sudden, when they previously at least had the (usless) october build for a
> late beta 2 (or was it RC1?). At any rate, any one hear that Creative was
> pulling support for the audigy in vista? That would be pretty sad to hear,
> and not jive with what I just read on their website.
>
> Carlo Razzeto

"David A. Lessnau" <DavidALessnau@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:0AEDE283-18E8-44DA-AA2B-3F7323BA5781@microsoft.com...
>I think they pulled the beta drivers from their site because they expire
>tomorrow (01/12/07). Hopefully, they'll have some kind of replacement up
>today (I'm not holding my breath, though).
>
>

That makes sense, I didn't realize tomorrow was the EXP date... I thought we
had a bit longer. Well, hopefully we'll see something that's compatible with
RTM (and works properly, but that's too much to hope for from Creative).

Carlo

"Carlo Razzeto" <crazzeto@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> That makes sense, I didn't realize tomorrow was the EXP date... I thought
> we had a bit longer. Well, hopefully we'll see something that's compatible
> with RTM (and works properly, but that's too much to hope for from
> Creative).

Just in the nick of time...
http://uk.europe.creative.com/suppor..._2_12_0001.exe

Currently my Audigy 4 card is disabled and I'm using onbaord audio. Even
with these drivers, things like EAX won't work properly under Vista and it
is likely that they never will.

CJM

Great Link. Although I have a beta driver now, I found a newer one that
doesn't expire at all that I can see.

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"dev" <dev@null.invalid> wrote in message
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> /Carlo Razzeto/ said:
>
>> For a while there Creative was doing pretty good releasing driver updates
>> for the audigy serives on Windows Vista (32/64). I just went to their
>> website and a driver search pulled up no results for the audigy all of
>> the
>> sudden, when they previously at least had the (useless) october build for
>> a
>> late beta 2 (or was it RC1?). At any rate, any one hear that Creative was
>> pulling support for the audigy in vista? That would be pretty sad to
>> hear,
>> and not jibe with what I just read on their website.
>
> http://www.creative.com/support/vista/
>
> I have heard nothing contrary to the official word. Check into their
> forums.

"CJM" <cjmnews04@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
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> Just in the nick of time...
> http://uk.europe.creative.com/suppor..._2_12_0001.exe
>
> Currently my Audigy 4 card is disabled and I'm using onbaord audio. Even
> with these drivers, things like EAX won't work properly under Vista and it
> is likely that they never will.
>
> CJM
>

Tell me about it, here's hoping I don't randomly lose channels like I did
with the last driver.

Carlo

I have just installed the new drivers and they seem to work alright.
One thing though the volume seems quieter (all the settings are the same as
before)?

NIK

"Carlo Razzeto" <crazzeto@hotmail.com> wrote in message
newsEDD7126-10BE-4AB1-8A7A-B2E995EBB7C2@microsoft.com...
> "CJM" <cjmnews04@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
> news:eyAFhfjNHHA.3944@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Just in the nick of time...
>> http://uk.europe.creative.com/suppor..._2_12_0001.exe
>>
>> Currently my Audigy 4 card is disabled and I'm using onbaord audio. Even
>> with these drivers, things like EAX won't work properly under Vista and
>> it is likely that they never will.
>>
>> CJM
>>
>
> Tell me about it, here's hoping I don't randomly lose channels like I did
> with the last driver.
>
> Carlo

"nicholas hall" <niknik1971NOSPAM@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:F553CAF9-C679-4314-9159-5F5791F2CD07@microsoft.com...
>I have just installed the new drivers and they seem to work alright.
> One thing though the volume seems quieter (all the settings are the same
> as before)?
>
> NIK

What kind of soundcard/platform are you running? On my system it failed to
pass the tone test, and when I decided to set it for 5.1 anyway (what the
heck right?) the system restarted it's self rather ungracefully

Carlo

I have a sound blaster audigy 2 ZS which is connected to a 5.1 speaker
system

NIK

"Carlo Razzeto" <crazzeto@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "nicholas hall" <niknik1971NOSPAM@btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:F553CAF9-C679-4314-9159-5F5791F2CD07@microsoft.com...
>>I have just installed the new drivers and they seem to work alright.
>> One thing though the volume seems quieter (all the settings are the same
>> as before)?
>>
>> NIK
>
> What kind of soundcard/platform are you running? On my system it failed to
> pass the tone test, and when I decided to set it for 5.1 anyway (what the
> heck right?) the system restarted it's self rather ungracefully
>
> Carlo