Use Creative X-Fi Drivers on Audigy Cards

[EL1TE]

Well, some moths ago Creative released some Drivers for X-Fi cards and none for Audigy series, but I founded a way to use X-Fi drivers on my Audigy 4, and it works great.

Here we go...

1*Download the Latest Driver for X-fi, for XP or Vista, that it's up to what OS you use.

2*Get some work to your compression utility (7-Zip, WinRAR, etc) and extract the driver to a folder.

3*Now go to the extrated folder and enter the "Drivers" folder, run setup, wait (Remember to reboot)

4*Done, lol

P.S.: It should work not only on Audigy 4 but on Aufigy 2 series too, for Audigy only cards i don't know, sorry

Remember that you do this at your own risk (i haven't found problems, if you found just uninstall the drivers and install the original ones and all sould be fine :yes: )

Now i'm asking myself, the X-fi wasn't made from "nothing", well i think Creative say X-Fi isn't an "upgrade" from Audigy series... if so why the drivers work? lol :rolleyes:

BCool

Edit: Word corrected

Edited November 5, 2007 by EL1TE

[+Tantawi Subscriber²]

Well, the inf contains both X-Fi and Audigy/2/4 related entries, no wonder it'll work fine, just the way NVIDIA has like 5+ generations; GeForce 5/6/7/8/Quardo(s), supported in a single unified driver, so I wouldn't say X-Fi is made from nothing :p

Nice tip though.

[EL1TE]

Well, the inf contains both X-Fi and Audigy/Audigy 2 related entries, no wonder it'll work fine, just the way NVIDIA has like 4 generations (GeForce 5/6/7/8) supported in a single unified driver, so I wouldn't say X-Fi is made from nothing :p

Nice tip though.

True, but if so why Creative don't release drivers for Audigy series? I don't understand :sleep:

Well, since Vista has arrived Creative released ONLY one driver for my Audigy 4, and i think only one for Audigy and Audigy 2 too.

Bah

[darkz]

True, but if so why Creative don't release drivers for Audigy series? I don't understand :sleep:

Well, since Vista has arrived Creative released ONLY one driver for my Audigy 4, and i think only one for Audigy and Audigy 2 too.

Bah

cause they want you to buy a new one :]

[+Tantawi Subscriber²]

True, but if so why Creative don't release drivers for Audigy series? I don't understand :sleep:

Because their software developers/support stink (N). It's a fact!

[solardog]

Because their software developers/support stink (N). It's a fact!

So true.

[f0rbez]

If you guys are really brave like me, Creative has some even newer beta drivers available. I've installed them on my Audigy 2 and they seem stable. This is the first time they've released a (for the most part) unified driver. It includes support for X-Fi, Audigy 4, and Audigy 2. No support for the old Audigy/SBLive however. Oh and I forgot to mention they support Vista as well ;) Download them here.

[marc2003]

i've been using x-fi drivers with my audigy2 for months now. the proper audigy drivers sound really flat in comparison when listening to music. (on vista that is. i had no problem in xp with the proper audigy drivers)

[Shof]

I have a Audigy 2 ZS card, will i see any improvement using these x-fi drivers?

[Eric Veteran]

Creative Labs is toast anyway. They only have like 10% of the installed sound base on VALVe's hardware survey.

http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html

[Shof]

Creative Labs is toast anyway. They only have like 10% of the installed sound base on VALVe's hardware survey.

http://www.steampowered.com/status/survey.html

it seems people love to use crappy onboard sound instead i suppose :whistle:

[Spyder Veteran]

it seems people love to use crappy onboard sound instead i suppose :whistle:

thats the thing though... its not crappy anymore. hasn't been for quite a while.

[spaceelf]

Depends on the mobo and codec manufacturer and how much effort they put into the audio.

Dell picks better codecs than enthusiast mobo makers do. Sad but true.

[The_Observer]

i just upgraded my onboard to a aug, and theres a bog diff's, will be looking into get a better card when i upgrade to dual or quad core, some time next year

[goatsniffer]

I am extremely happy with my Audigy 2.

Using the k-Lite Codec pack I am able to push the most sound quality out of these mid-range speakers. I love the hardware accelerated sound in games available with this card also.

[GrimReeper]

I was never quite sure why people ever got the Audigy 4. The only review I read about it said don't bother get a Audigy 2 ZS (so I did :D).

Creative support sucks indeed, I guess they are making drivers that support the 4 and 2 but don't want to provide support for them if they are not compatible or have bugs.

I see my Audigy2 ZS and Firefox or Opera and Onboard audio as IE5 or the original netscape navigator

[Yochanan]

Anyone tried this with an original Audigy? You can see the model I have in my sig. I'm currently using the NGO modified drivers, and like them better than the normal Audigy drivers.