backtop

Print E-mail del.icio.us 37 comment(s) - last by Garreye.. on Jun 27 at 5:55 PM
Sound Blaster Audigy LS, Audigy SE, Audigy Value and Live! 24-bit users receive advanced features in Windows Vista

Sound Blaster Windows Vista users rejoice as Creative Labs has released new drivers for Sound Blaster Audigy LS, Audigy SE, Audigy Value and Live! 24-bit sound cards. The new drivers introduce Creative Labs applications to Windows Vista. With the new drivers, value Sound Blaster users have access to the Creative Audio Console, Device Control, EAX Console and Speaker Settings applications.

Using the applications, Creative Labs grants access to output audio quality, S/PDIF input/output sampling rate, speaker configuration, sound effects and CMSS settings – feats previously reserved for Windows XP users.

Sound Blaster Audigy LS, Audigy SE, Audigy Value and Live! 24-bit users can download the new drivers for Windows Vista/XP 32-bit and Vista/XP 64-bit.

Comments     Threshold


This article is over a month old, voting and posting comments is disabled
Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By therealnickdanger on 6/26/2007 2:24:48 PM , Rating: 2
Doesn't look like there's any support yet. C'mon CL, don't fail me!




RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By RamarC on 6/26/07, Rating: -1
RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By FITCamaro on 6/26/2007 4:05:43 PM , Rating: 4
Because Creative won't write a driver for it? How again is that Microsoft or Vista's fault?


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By pixelslave on 6/26/07, Rating: -1
RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By FITCamaro on 6/26/2007 7:01:48 PM , Rating: 4
That argument is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. A poorly designed product is the result of a company being too big. Vista has proved itself to be a capable, secure OS. Yes you might think it sucks too much resources and don't like the interface, but it is still capable and secure.

A hardware manufacturer not writing a driver is the issue here. A driver that Microsoft is not responsible for writing. If anyone has grown too big, its Creative since they can't keep up with drivers for their products.


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By hadifa on 6/26/2007 9:26:02 PM , Rating: 2
"That argument is the dumbest thing I've ever heard."

Right, it is too dumb to be true. I guess he is being sarcastic!


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By oTAL (blog) on 6/27/2007 5:48:40 AM , Rating: 3
quote:
Right, it is too dumb to be true. I guess he is being sarcastic!


Yeah, right... LOTS of very sarcastic people around the world... :roll eyes:

(See the difference? =P )


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By Screwballl on 6/27/2007 12:56:56 PM , Rating: 1
Honestly, BOTH are to blame.
MS has forced too strict of a regulation on their drivers so the manufacturers have to pick and choose which of their best selling lines get the drivers and then piece the rest in later on.
As a PC tech, my view is that Vista is WinME version2. another way to look at it is Vista = XP SP3 that you pay for.

Sure it has some security updates and capability upgrades but the underlying coding is nothing new, simply modified XP coding. It is something that is just enough to make a few extra bucks for MS when XP was more than capable and able to be patched.... where is SP3 that has been promised since SP2??? MS saw that they could make money rather than release something for free so they are charging for SP3 in the form of Vista. At least when XP was released it was an upgrade of 2000 but was different enough to be a new OS. Vista is XP with a new skin (thus SP3).
Way to shaft the customer once again MS!


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By Garreye on 6/27/2007 5:55:40 PM , Rating: 2
I think it's great that MS is being strict with drivers. Everyone, especially the non-tech people (who probably don't know what a driver is), gets upset when windows is at all unstable and a lot of the time it's a bad drivers that are the problem. The only way MS can fix this problem is to have strict driver regulations.

Vista had been out for several months now, and was in beta for months before that, Creative has had lots of time to get drivers out. Creative has been horrible the last few years with driver releases in general, not just with Vista.

As far as Vista being XP SP3, have a look at this article, I think you'll reconsider:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/pretty-vista.ars
Also, not sure if it's mentioned in that article, but Vista is based on the Windows Sever 2003 code, not XP.


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By RamarC on 6/27/07, Rating: -1
RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By FITCamaro on 6/27/2007 9:26:27 AM , Rating: 3
Oh god no. Microsoft changed something to move forward with its products.

Again. Don't blame Microsoft and Vista because hardware manufacturers waited until after Vista was released to start writing drivers for it. It was in beta since 2005. They had more than enough time to look into the new driver model and write drivers that would work with it. They choose not to.

I worked for a company that made fingerprint sensors. We were working on a driver for Vista in June of 2006. And the only thing that didn't work on Vista with the XP/2000 driver were the power states.


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By arazok on 6/26/2007 4:15:11 PM , Rating: 2
I was thinking the same thing.... I'm STILL waiting for a working driver for my Audigy 2, so CL releases drivers for the value cards? I've been using my integrated audio since Vista came out. I swore I'd never buy a CL card again after seeing how well the 1st Audigy drivers performed (they don't work at all). This just reinforces my decision.

But hating Vista is just nonsense. I'm 100% satisfied with Vista. It's not Microsoft's fault Creative can't bother to put enough resources into driver development.


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By hellokeith on 6/26/2007 4:17:13 PM , Rating: 2
My Audigy 2 works fine in Vista using the Creative Vista Audigy 2 series driver. What specifically is the problem you're having?


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By arazok on 6/26/2007 5:57:23 PM , Rating: 2
Works fine until I play any game. I get about 30 seconds of sound, and then everything gets this garbled echo like sound. Completely unusable.

From what I have read in CL forums, I'm in good company.


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By hellokeith on 6/26/2007 6:09:03 PM , Rating: 2
I guess you're doing something wrong then. All my games work fine, except for BF2, which I had to turn off EAX. Nice to have but no biggie though.


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By GlassHouse69 on 6/26/2007 8:02:55 PM , Rating: 3
no biggie? this is why you own an audigy, for its eax support and offloading of cpu utilization. I hear vista doesnt do either very well if at all.

GI JOE!!!!


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By Samus on 6/27/07, Rating: -1
RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By dgingeri on 6/26/2007 5:55:44 PM , Rating: 3
I won't buy another Creative card, either. So far, I have an Audigy 2zs, and when that wouldn't work right in WoW, I got an Audigy 4, which also didn't work right. I went to my on-board sound and got better performance than the CL cards.

I finally install Vista and try out the creative cards again, only to find they they, yes both of them, pick up major static somewhere and have it constantly going when the system is supposed to be inactive with the screen saver going. The only way I can get the static to stop is to send the system into standby or shut it completely down.

As of last night, I gave up on the Creative cards, again, and went back to my on-board sound. I haven't had better sound performance in WoW. the on-board, standard AC97 sound on my Asus A8N-SLi Premium, a cheap ALC850, is better than the Creative cards.

CL has taken their monopoly on sound cards way too far and gone totally sloppy. This is a monopolistic practice at its worst. MS at least still takes care of their stuff. CL doesn't seem to even care to try.


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By arazok on 6/26/2007 6:00:42 PM , Rating: 2
Funny. I have the same MB, same problem, and find the AC97 just as good as you do.

To be honest, I've been buying CL cards since the 486, and recently I have just been buying them out of habit. My experience has shown me that I am perfectly happy with on-board sound.


RE: Audigy 4 Pro... :(
By Aquila76 on 6/26/2007 10:50:35 PM , Rating: 2
Yet another A8N-SLI (Deluxe, though) owner here. I just ditched my Audigy and Creative / Cambridge SoundWorks DTT3500 speaker set for on-board and a Logitech Z-5500 set. I'm done waiting for Creative to release proper drivers for ANY OS, let alone Vista. Unless they come out with some card that sounds like God yelling at Moses ala 'The Ten Commandments', fsck Creative.