Drivers for Soundblaster Live

[kop48]

Yeah, most of the stuff that works in vista will only be accesible via the Audio console.

 

[kop48]

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=1283

Wonder if anyone tried these drivers?

 

[Mecham]

Whatever changes Microsoft have made to build 5728 it has completely ruined the beta drivers for the audigy sound cards. The drivers listed within this topic are NOT compatible with the latest release of Windows Vista, I have spoken to Creative this morning (although initially they would not support me with Vista, I kind of smooth talked my way through the support lady, and she has confirmed the BETA2 drivers for the latest build will work in some sort of way but parts of the software are incompatible with 5728).

There is also an issue with ATI drivers. Again I have spoken to ATI support team and they said beta drivers will be released when RTM is official. Creative Labs said they have no plans to release drivers until the official release. How dumb is that for an answer...? 🙁

 

[Mecham]

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=1283

Wonder if anyone tried these drivers?

They work but, (well kind of work in a suttle way) when loading to desktop you end up with about 6 or 7 error messages stating there was an issue with the drivers. The main problem with the Audigy card it seams the game pad is not installing which throws out the error messages when loading to desktop.

 

[kop48]

ah ok, I never use that anyway 😉

 

[Mecham]

Well some of the software doesn't work with the Beta drivers, but the soundcard itself works well enough

I called Creative Labs in Irland in September or October, and spoke to their support team who are none the wiser to be honest because they don't know anything until the debelopers have created drivers to work with their hardware. Until then use the Beta Drivers they work fine.

 

[kop48]

http://www.openal.org/openal_vista.html
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=1694
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=3036

Three links which will explain why Creative is taking so long in getting a driver to work. This is pretty much the story with both ATI and Nvidia releasing Vista drivers.