Creative Driver Updates and New Audigy 2 DriverPack 10/02/03

Ney · Feb 13, 2003, 03:21 AM

dexe, as with every other A2 driver, only these apps work for my SB Live! Value:
- Audio HQ 1.10.22 (Device Controls, EAX Control Panel, Keyboard, SoundFont Manager)
- Surround Mixer/Speaker Settings

In fact, I don't even know the others, so I haven't tried that much for them to work.

And I see no difference with these new drivers, but I like to upgrade anyway.

RIV@NVX · Feb 13, 2003, 05:21 AM

Speaker Calibration and EAX Console should not be installed on Live! cards (if you install them, most of things will stop working).
P.S.
If FAQ is missing anything, please post here (if you don't understand or something). You can PM me too.

dexe · Feb 13, 2003, 10:28 AM

thanks,
I just wonder, is the all same like in old drivers... And yes it is ;(
regards...

dwarfy · Feb 13, 2003, 10:32 AM

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Originally posted by dwarfy
works very well with my live, exept one thing : the windows startup sound is completly horrible and distorded.

however, after the boot, everything is fine. any idea ?

nobody has the same problem with these .324 and a live! ?

kmolazz · Feb 13, 2003, 11:05 AM

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Originally posted by RIV@NVX
I don't know how much does this matter, but you should install 324 over 323 - and 323 over 283. That's what CL says.

thanks, it worked, everything is ok now

RIV@NVX · Feb 13, 2003, 03:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by dwarfy
nobody has the same problem with these .324 and a live! ?

Must be some loading in the background, not only the windows sound. Or maybe some software cooling.

P.S.
Check first question in FAQ

dwarfy · Feb 13, 2003, 08:12 PM

no soft cooling loaded

only ICQ and Tvtool are loaded at the boot (and with the .323, the sound at window start is not distorted)

P.S. : I've haven't seen anything like this in the FAQ ("using aud2 drivers au aud1"), please where it is in the FAQ ?

RIV@NVX · Feb 14, 2003, 06:44 AM

Check my sig (I updated it).

dwarfy · Feb 14, 2003, 06:48 AM

yeah, i know, but i don't find any solution to my problem in the FAQ.

I've installed .324 drivers alone (no apps) and everything is ok (under windows, apps, games, etc ...) except the windows startup sound which is completly distorted (no probs with .323 and all precedents releases)

RIV@NVX · Feb 14, 2003, 06:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dwarfy
yeah, i know, but i don't find any solution to my problem in the FAQ.

I've installed .324 drivers alone (no apps) and everything is ok (under windows, apps, games, etc ...) except the windows startup sound which is completly distorted (no probs with .323 and all precedents releases)

There was a solution, but it is more like a joke

I suggest you to disable startup sound (if this is a bug there is no way to fix it).
Have you tried reinstalling drivers?

dwarfy · Feb 14, 2003, 06:59 AM

yes, and It is the same

I've tested them on my two comps (one with a live! (one of the first) and the second with a live! 1024) and it's the same.

so i continue use the .323 (because I haven't seen any problem with the game/apps I use AND the stratup sound is ok, so ...

)

RIV@NVX · Feb 14, 2003, 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dwarfy
yes, and It is the same I've tested them on my two comps (one with a live! (one of the first) and the second with a live! 1024) and it's the same.

so i continue use the .323 (because I haven't seen any problem with the game/apps I use AND the stratup sound is ok, so ... )

Seems like something is messed in the driver itself (10k1 part). They will not bother fixing it.
Still, you can use newer apps and .323 driver (they *should*be* compatible).

dwarfy · Feb 14, 2003, 12:48 PM

I don't use creative apps, just the drivers

~~Asuka~~ · Feb 16, 2003, 06:09 PM

Finally, got the new A2 drivers to work on my SB Live! 5.1

First, I only had the new drivers and tried to install them (after patching them). Install worked fine, no probs in device manager after rebooting, but no sound at all

So, since it didn't work the easy way, I did it like this:

1. Got hacked .283 driver-only package, .323 and .324 drivers from Creative's site and patched the latter two with ctcomp
2. Uninstalled Creative Web drivers, removed all Creative references from <windir>\inf (just search for files containing "creative") to prevent auto-reinstall
3. Installed hacked .283 using ctzapxx.exe, reboot
4. Installed patched .323 using ctzapxx.exe, reboot
5. Installed patched .324 using ctzapxx.exe, reboot

Now everything works just fine

No sound problems, no missing files, no other problems whatsoever.
I don't have installed any of the junk apps from Creative, just drivers.
I've also compacted the files a good bit, repacking them and compressing using cab (which compresses much better than zip and still better than rar). Everything completely patched and ready to use!
.283 driver set: 11.2MB
.323 driver update: 6.0MB
.324 driver update: 3.8MB
If someone is willing to host them, I could upload them.

dwarfy · Feb 17, 2003, 04:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Asuka
Finally, got the new A2 drivers to work on my SB Live! 5.1
First, I only had the new drivers and tried to install them (after patching them). Install worked fine, no probs in device manager after rebooting, but no sound at all
So, since it didn't work the easy way, I did it like this:

1. Got hacked .283 driver-only package, .323 and .324 drivers from Creative's site and patched the latter two with ctcomp
2. Uninstalled Creative Web drivers, removed all Creative references from <windir>\inf (just search for files containing "creative") to prevent auto-reinstall
3. Installed hacked .283 using ctzapxx.exe, reboot
4. Installed patched .323 using ctzapxx.exe, reboot
5. Installed patched .324 using ctzapxx.exe, reboot

Now everything works just fine No sound problems, no missing files, no other problems whatsoever.
I don't have installed any of the junk apps from Creative, just drivers.
I've also compacted the files a good bit, repacking them and compressing using cab (which compresses much better than zip and still better than rar). Everything completely patched and ready to use!
.283 driver set: 11.2MB
.323 driver update: 6.0MB
.324 driver update: 3.8MB
If someone is willing to host them, I could upload them.

and no probs at the windows startup sound ???

(because here, with two comps with live!, EVRYTHING is ok except the windows startup sound)

erickmOrillo · Feb 18, 2003, 03:00 PM

Does this new drivers have the function of clone the stereo front sound into the rear speakers?

RIV@NVX · Feb 18, 2003, 03:20 PM

No, only CMSS. foobar2000 has this option, for example.

shuki · Mar 15, 2003, 08:27 AM

Just wanted to post up that I went through RIV@NVX's FAQ yesterday and brought my OEM audigy up to .324 drivers and apps. Thank you guys SO much for the input and RIV, especially for writing and maintaining the FAQ. Man I love DH!!

XBoy · Apr 7, 2003, 01:50 PM

Is anyone able to create and have it display your speaker calibration profiles? I create the profiles but it seems that it doesn't save??

BlueSteel · Apr 7, 2003, 02:28 PM

The only profile-related problem I encountered is that if you save them under a new name you need to create a new profile for each speaker-setting; normally you can save several configurations in the same file.

I'd recommend a complete uninstall and a clean re-install of the drivers. (inclusive deleting \program files\creative, H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Creative and H_KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Creative after deinstalling the drivers)
Don't forget to install the .323-updates before installing .324.

The drivers sometimes just don't install correctly; don't ask me why. I've often encountered similar problems, reinstalling always helped.

XBoy · Apr 8, 2003, 01:05 PM

I've verified it to work on another machine (updated to 324 and patched all apps). ARGH but my computer I've reinstalled and still no go...stupid buggy software...

XBoy · Apr 8, 2003, 01:06 PM

Where does it store the speaker calibration data profiles anyways? I tried searching through the registry but I don't see anything, except the current active calibration.

SupaBeast · Apr 8, 2003, 01:45 PM

Goddamnit. I boot the PC up today, and it says new hardware detected, and I decline to install drivers (there is no new hardware), I soon find that I cant uese any of the Creative Programs and my computer doesnt detect my audigy 2. When I try to DL the drivers off the site, I still get a problem, as it is a self extracting program and halkts once it sees that I "dont have an Audigy related product"...me sad.

awesmdiver · Apr 22, 2003, 01:07 AM

I was able to install the Audigy 2 drivers for my Augidy and everything works great except for AS3/Dolby Digtal. I noticed that I need to put it at 41mhz for sound to work however when I try to play a DVD using SPIF all I get is a popping noise - If I use just the .283 drivers no problem but once I upgrade to .323 or .324 Dolby Digtal dies.

Any ideas? Anyone else have this issue?

Thanks

Bhairav · Apr 29, 2003, 08:48 AM

Damn. Updated my Live! Value with the .324 drivers. It worked fine. Now I need to install Creative's crappy applications. I have that full 119 Mb download, so i tried to run the app setups. The setup went ahead, but whenever I try to run the apps, they tell me that I have the wrong hardware, or words to that effect. Anything I can do to alleviate this?
Thanks
Bhairav

RIV@NVX · Apr 29, 2003, 02:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bhairav
Damn. Updated my Live! Value with the .324 drivers. It worked fine. Now I need to install Creative's crappy applications. I have that full 119 Mb download, so i tried to run the app setups. The setup went ahead, but whenever I try to run the apps, they tell me that I have the wrong hardware, or words to that effect. Anything I can do to alleviate this?
Thanks
Bhairav

Which apps have you installed?
EAX Console and Speaker Calibration shouldn't be installed.

Bhairav · May 3, 2003, 01:48 AM

Hey RivaNVX. I installed all the apps except Speaker Calibration and EAX Console. No worries, I uninstalled and reinstalled, and it all worked!
Damn Creative driver team