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Use this instead of the Creative drivers.  You'll get an error upon the first reboot, but audio won't be garbled anymore.

http://download.kxproject.lugosoft.com/dow...rv3537-full.exe

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Thanks, i'll give it a go. Does it install and reconise the card as an Audigy 2 zs still, or just an audigy like the official drivers. Also does allt he EAX and stuff work?

It's really too bad that we've got to use third party drivers for this. I always thought Creative kind of lagged behind on driver/software development and it really shows here - every other designed-for-XP driver I've used on Vista b1 has worked perfectly. This is honestly the only thing stopping me from running this full time, and it's unfortunate that Creative is so behind the curve.

Here's hoping that Creative will catch up quickly. I understand that http://preview.creative.com is their beta projects page?

edit=nope, that may not be it.

From another thread -- YouP drivers for Audigy http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php...&highlight=youp

I have NOT tested these as of yet.

Since I couldnt get my onboard realtek ac'97 drivers to function properly, i broke down and went out and bought a soundblaster audigy 2 value card. to get vista to install, since the install app would not work, said could not detect audigy 2 on system, i DLed the latest drivers, extracted them with winrar and went to the drivers folder and ran the exe, this worked. Now I have beautiful crisp sound in vista.

The original poster's drivers work fine for me. I had the official creative ones installed previously, but after a while sound became garbled. Installed the ones he suggested, and songs playback fine once more. Although I do get the "could not detect your device" message on each boot; I can live with that.

Since I couldnt get my onboard realtek ac'97 drivers to function properly, i broke down and went out and bought a soundblaster audigy 2 value card. to get vista to install, since the install app would not work, said could not detect audigy 2 on system, i DLed the latest drivers, extracted them with winrar and went to the drivers folder and ran the exe, this worked. Now I have beautiful crisp sound in vista.

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Which driver file specifically?

The original poster's drivers work fine for me. I had the official creative ones installed previously, but after a while sound became garbled. Installed the ones he suggested, and songs playback fine once more. Although I do get the "could not detect your device" message on each boot; I can live with that.

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Good to hear :)

well  i get error every boot....no sound !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  i got sound with creative driveres  but  horrible sound.......... i tryed the direct sound fix  from 5048... totally screwed up  vista///// had to reinstall ////  any one else know a fix

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32 bit AND THIS IS GIVING ME THE ****s//////////////// my mate has a audgity 1 and his WORKS FINE

2 zs r crap//...///./

Just so you all know... installing the drivers will only give ok sound ... Using the PAX drivers off of driverheaven are exactly the same drivers as the creatives... just tweaked.

It appears the "media Technologies" in the Creative suite keep directinput and other "directx" features out... like the "what you hear" feature... If you run the Creative Diagnostics.. you will get 3 errors... One error you get is if you run the diagnostics....is a Framework crash.. Sorry about all the dots...<

the driver version in dxdiag on Vista show as {0.0.0}{HEXADECIMAL VALUE PID HERE} SO.. until we see new drivers.. no use to me.. if you want to change ur EAX feature.. go to the Console.

Just so you all know... installing the drivers will only give ok sound ... Using the PAX drivers off of driverheaven are exactly the same drivers as the creatives... just tweaked.

It appears the "media Technologies" in the Creative suite keep directinput and other "directx" features out... like the "what you hear" feature...  If you run the Creative Diagnostics.. you will get 3 errors... One error you get is if you run the diagnostics....is a Framework crash..  Sorry about all the dots...<

the driver version in dxdiag on Vista show as {0.0.0}{HEXADECIMAL VALUE PID HERE}  SO.. until we see new drivers.. no use to me.. if you want to change ur EAX feature.. go to the Console.

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i just want normal sound.....I DONT CARE BOUT EAX AND ALL THAT C**P !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ,,,,,,

I just got this working and posted it over on the Creative boards. I havent played with EAX yet, but I got this to work w/o any 3rd party drivers, all Creative and I havent had garbled audio for hours.

Ill be quick about this cause I know like most of you I was banging my head as to how to get this to work. This is what I did and its been playinng for hours without any garble. If you deviate from what I have done, post it if theres a quicker way.

I installed the drivers from the disc that I got with the set, you will get alot of errors but it should still install fine. I would also assume you can DL the orginal NOV19 driver and install under compatability mode. (DL to desktop--->right click---->properties----->compatability and change to XP) install and reboot.

Next, I installed the 2nd driver set (april5) and instead of installing under compatibilty mode, I opened the .exe with WINRAR and went to Drivers---->Support----->i386----->ctzapxx.exe and select "driver install" and leave "overwrite existing drivers" unchecked.

Reboot and let me know how it worked.

It's really too bad that we've got to use third party drivers for this. I always thought Creative kind of lagged behind on driver/software development and it really shows here - every other designed-for-XP driver I've used on Vista b1 has worked perfectly. This is honestly the only thing stopping me from running this full time, and it's unfortunate that Creative is so behind the curve.

Here's hoping that Creative will catch up quickly. I understand that http://preview.creative.com is their beta projects page?

edit=nope, that may not be it.

From another thread -- YouP drivers for Audigy http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php...&highlight=youp

I have NOT tested these as of yet.

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http://preview.creativelabs.com/default.aspx

I found that once you have any drivers installed, some degree of garbled/glitched sound can be eliminated by disabling hardware acceleration. Its suspected that DirectSound is the culprit of the glitching, as for me the glitching is a progressive problem, one that gets worse and worse as sounds are played.

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