Report on Upgrade to Vista

Hans-Peter Gutt · Feb 2, 2007, 11:16 PM

Against conventional wisdom I performed an in-place upgrade to Vista Ultimate. (Outlook 2000's evident incompatibility compelled the installation of Office 2003 and all is well; some problems surfaced with CorelDraw X3 Graphics Suite, almost all of which have been resolved.)

I was running my Audigy 2 ZS Platinum /kX driver 3538m & Cambridge Soundworks FPS 2000 speakers on Wxp prior to the upgrade.

It all works on Vista! The functions I have checked out: Audio CDs, mp3s in Winamp & Media Player, DVD soundtracks on PowerDVD 6 [which unaccountably seems to work normally as well], and audio to a COMPRO TV card.

Can record 'live' from Audio Cleaning Lab 10.

The LiveDrive is supporting completely normal Headphones, which correctly mute the speakers, also Aux In 2 and SPDIF In/Out. All clean.

I haven't measured anything, but subjectively my impression is that A2ZSP + kX3538m sounds as overwhelming superb on Vista as it did on Wxp.

Endless gratitude to EG & such good luck to other Vista migrators.

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Stand alone Desktop:
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 (rev. 1.0) BIOS F7
Intel C2D E6400
Kingston 2 GB DDR2 667
Cooling: Thermalright SI-128 + Scythe S-FLEX
Stable Overclock@3.2 GHz
2 x WD2500KS Caviar SE16 250GB SATA 3.0Gb
Gigabyte 7600 GT Silent Pipe II
Audigy 2 ZS Platinum [SB0350] /kX driver 3538m
Samsung DVD-RW SH-S182D
LG CD-RW/DVD ROM 4522B

Windows Vista Ultimate

thomasabarnes · Feb 2, 2007, 11:46 PM

Thanks for the report.

**Eugene Gavrilov** · Feb 6, 2007, 02:51 AM

note: kX does not support ASIO under Vista yet
also, you may need to go to 'advanced' options of kxmixer.exe and set it to work in 'winxp-compatible' mode. this will improve volume controls capabilities

E.