Sound Cards

[Jerry]

I still have NOT been able to get good sound with the system I have Vista
installed on. I know it is an old system and other than sound Vista runs
very well. Drivers <or updates> are no long available for the sound card I
have and the on-board sound is the older AC-97 which I understand Vista does
support either.

A while back, someone posted that they had the Creative Labs Audigy 4 card
and it was working very well. The issue is they did NOT say which version
of Audigy 4. There are several Audigy 4 cards ranging in price from $30-
$275. My understanding was the drivers for the Audigy 4 are on the update
page for Vista.

With the system being as old as it is, I do NOT want to invest in the high
end card until I get a new system. If anyone knows which of the Audigy 4
cards do work, I would certainly appreciate knowing. Thank you

 

[Dave Cox]

"Jerry" <jhuffman@triad.rr.com> wrote in
news:#Z8t$bTwHHA.4300@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:

> I still have NOT been able to get good sound with the system I
> have Vista installed on. I know it is an old system and other
> than sound Vista runs very well. Drivers <or updates> are no long
> available for the sound card I have and the on-board sound is the
> older AC-97 which I understand Vista does support either.
>
> A while back, someone posted that they had the Creative Labs
> Audigy 4 card and it was working very well. The issue is they did
> NOT say which version of Audigy 4. There are several Audigy 4
> cards ranging in price from $30- $275. My understanding was the
> drivers for the Audigy 4 are on the update page for Vista.
>
> With the system being as old as it is, I do NOT want to invest in
> the high end card until I get a new system. If anyone knows which
> of the Audigy 4 cards do work, I would certainly appreciate
> knowing. Thank you
>
>
>

The latest creative drivers for vista say.

http://tinyurl.com/38xrpr


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

Known issues:

Applications from the original Sound Blaster Audigy CD will not work
with this download.
Users are advised to use Audio Console included in this download to
change speaker configurations.

This driver does not support the following:
Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS™ signals
DVD-Audio
DirectSound®-based EAX games
Gameports
6.1 speaker mode.
SPDIF passthrough is supported on Vista 32-bit only.