I own a Creative Audigy 4 sound card, along with an Icemat Sibera headset. On XP, with a few EAX tweaks everything sounded great. In games I could hear a terrorist reloading on the other side of a Slayer concert. everything was fine.
Then came Vista. I had heard that Creative had released new drivers for their Audigy series to make em work on said OS. and sure enough, if you go to creative's site and look around, you can find the software that supposedly gives you incredible sound quality.
So, a few hours later Vista's installed and most things are up and running. I install the audigy drivers, and restart my PC. things seemed OK: Vista made its little sound when it started. I played some music to see if everything was alright. It wasn't: the sound was horrible, and there was almost no bass. Although I had tweaked it on XP for better sound quality, it was nothing even close to this without them. Even my old onboard sounded better.
And just to top that off, you can't actually tweak it, at all. Every single extra feature I've payed for doesn't work: bass and treble can't be adjusted, there is no equalizer, no presets, not a single thing to change.
Its been over 8 months since Vista has been released, and Creative have barely put any effort into getting their entire pre-x-fi line of sound cards working properly. They've made some half-assed promises to get things working, but only people with x-fi sound cards have received some dodgy new drivers that supposedly fix things up. I'm now stuck with crappy sound, because the one company that dominates the sound card market has decided the best course of action is to screw their clientele over.
So, fuck Creative. If anyone knows a way to get the entire audigy software suite working on Vista, please tell me how. Either that, or a sound card that's just as good but properly supports vista.
Creative and EA should be partners, they'd be great together.
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Then came Vista. I had heard that Creative had released new drivers for their Audigy series to make em work on said OS. and sure enough, if you go to creative's site and look around, you can find the software that supposedly gives you incredible sound quality.
So, a few hours later Vista's installed and most things are up and running. I install the audigy drivers, and restart my PC. things seemed OK: Vista made its little sound when it started. I played some music to see if everything was alright. It wasn't: the sound was horrible, and there was almost no bass. Although I had tweaked it on XP for better sound quality, it was nothing even close to this without them. Even my old onboard sounded better.
And just to top that off, you can't actually tweak it, at all. Every single extra feature I've payed for doesn't work: bass and treble can't be adjusted, there is no equalizer, no presets, not a single thing to change.
Its been over 8 months since Vista has been released, and Creative have barely put any effort into getting their entire pre-x-fi line of sound cards working properly. They've made some half-assed promises to get things working, but only people with x-fi sound cards have received some dodgy new drivers that supposedly fix things up. I'm now stuck with crappy sound, because the one company that dominates the sound card market has decided the best course of action is to screw their clientele over.
So, fuck Creative. If anyone knows a way to get the entire audigy software suite working on Vista, please tell me how. Either that, or a sound card that's just as good but properly supports vista.
Creative and EA should be partners, they'd be great together.
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