Windows Vista

[Jason-CL]

Filename: SBAX_PCDVTBETA_US_2_11_0000.exe

This download is a beta driver providing Microsoft® Windows® Vista 64-bit and Windows Vista 32-bit RC1 support for Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy series audio devices. For more details, read the rest of this web release note. This download supports the following audio devices only: Creative Sound Blaster® Audigy® including Platinum and Platinum eX series Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 including Platinum, Platinum eX, and Value series Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS including Platinum and Platinum Pro series Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro and Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA Take note of the following: THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED BETA DRIVER. There is no technical support for this driver. We recommend that only experienced users install this driver. Do not install this driver for critical tasks. This beta driver expires on January 8, 2007. When this happens, users should install the latest Sound Blaster Audigy series Vista driver available. Your feedback is a valuable part of our development process. To submit feedback on this driver, go to Sound Blaster Crew Feedback Beta Program at Windows Vista Knowledge Base. Known issues: Applications from the original Sound Blaster Audigy CD will not work with this download. EAX® and CMSS-3D® are not supported in this download. Users are advised to use Audio Console included in this download to change speaker configurations. When using Vista's Control Panel to configure your speakers, 6.1 speaker mode is not fully functional. Control Panel will stop responding in Headphone mode. there is no test signal in 7.1 speaker mode. Requirements: Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows Vista 32-bit RC1 Creative Sound Blaster Audigy audio devices listed above. Notes: DO NOT install this driver for Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit, Sound Blaster Audigy LS, Sound Blaster Audigy SE, or Sound Blaster Audigy Value. To install the driver, do the following: Download the SBAX_PCDVTBETA_US_2_11_0000.exe file into your local hard disk. Double-click the downloaded file. Follow the instructions on the screen. To uninstall the driver, do the following: Click Start -> All Programs -> Control Panel. Double-click the Device Manager icon. Double-click the Sound, video and game controllers option. Right-click the Creative SB Audigy option, and select Uninstall. From the the Confirm Device Uninstall dialog box, select the Delete the driver software for this device option. Note: This check box must be selected to avoid reinstallation issues. Click the OK button. Restart your computer. To reinstall the driver, do the following: Double-click the SBAX_PCDVTBETA_US_2_11_0000.exe file. When the message You must restart your computer to apply these changes appears, click the Restart Later button. Follow the instructions on the screen.

[Lemonzest]

I'll Install these tomorrow

[andyqkw]

Downloading it now...

[HSE]

Setup went smoothly on RC2, both x86 and x64. The drivers are signed but Vista asks if you trust the source and you can't continue until you click yes. It installs a driver for the gameport but the device manager still shows it as an unknown device.

The recording devices panel no longer crashes, and it activates all the analog inputs (haven't tried them all). The playback devices panel allows to configure the speakers as 5.1/7.1 and to control all the level sliders that surround mixer offers in XP.

Since it is pretty late I haven't tested with the 7.1 setup, only with headphones, but the DD/DTS decoder works and UT2004 no longer suffers a slowdown after installing the drivers.

Tomorrow I will do proper testing but it seems that I am having troubles again with SPDIF pass-through. Overall this release seems like a step in the right direction, let's hope for complete features when Vista is released.

EDIT: This results are with an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro

Message Edited by HSE on 10-11-2006 10:00 AM

[ward1e]

Hi,

The driver installs fine apart from the unrecognised gameport. However though when trying to configure the number of speakers through control pannel by double clicking sound, selecting Creative SB Audigy, and clicking configure, only headphones or stereo speakers are available with no 5.1 or quadraphonic option like there was in the previous driver.

This is when the driver is being used on an original auidgy without the firewire port.

I have tried unistalling and reinstalling the driver multiple times without success.

[dabl]

Please include the model/version of the Audigy card you're using in the reports.

[Edtech]

I download SBAX_PCDVTBETA_US_2_11_0000.exe an try to install on Vista RC2 5744 64bits for my Audigy 2 ZS.

Installer is blocked by Windows and interrupt before installation with this message :

Creative Device Driver Installation Program has stopped working.
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.

If I us "Run in administrator", it's the same.

If I decompress the .exe and install the drivers with the Driver's update of Windows, the drivers are correctly install but I have no sound. I try change sound's parameters but nothing, and Creative Audio Console don't found my Audigy.

I try launch directly Setup. Windows are stopped install and relaunch with correctly parameters, I had the message : Your version on Windows Operating System is not supported by this product. Please upgrade to Windows Vista or later version before resuming installation.

I have this problem with all versions of drivers and all versions of Vista...

I hoped that this update was best...

[Murcielago2006]

Game port still not working, anyone knows how to fix this, its causing Visa to crash! am running an Audigy 2 ZS on Vista RC2.

[GreyWolf]

Blah! Not much of an update. It will let me select 5.1 in the speaker config, but it's still plain old stereo in everything...

[r0yalty]

I must be blind, but where is the download link?