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So I was cruising around the web and happened to stop by the Bioware website like I do every week just to check up on the development of Neverwinter Nights. This is a game I've been following almost since the beginning of its conception. The game looks extremely promising, and if Bioware has any say in it, it definately will be.

At any rate, enjoy the new screenies! It appears they were released yesterday. (March 6th)

News source: Official Neverwinter Nights website
View: New Screenshots

The following instructions are for WinXP

1) go to device manager
2) go to audio device/gameport
3) remove SBLive! WDM Basic Device
4) remove Gameport for SBLive!
5) backup wdma10k1.inf to wdma10k1.inf.old
6) backup wdma10k1.pnf to wdma10k1.pnf.old
7) Install official Audigy driver, and select "no" when prompt for "uninstalling driver"
8) restart
9) system report that new audio hardware is found, select do not install driver automatically System report new gameport device found, select do not install driver automatically.
10) run the audigy beta driver UDA_betaUDA_betaAudioEnglishdriversCTZAPXX.exe, select install WDM driver
11) restart, everything okay except the sound font manager
12) copy the sfman32.dll from the "common" directoy of the audigy driver disc, boot to DOS or other version of windows (or safe mode?), then copy the sfman32.dll to System32 directory of windows
13) restart, everything okay, all functionality

the conclusion by that guy is that Audigy is just the old core with new manufacture method (thus different chip size, etc.) with 24-bit playback DAC and 1394 interface. He also hypothesized that Creatvie have their stock dropping a lot earlier last year and a lot of people are criticizing that their R&D is too slow, so they just make Audigy which based on the same old core while advertsing it as "with a lot of whole new technology and functionality"

AAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! YOU CAN WRECK YOUR SYSTEM BY DOING THIS AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!