Creative Labs SoundBlast

Does anyone know if Creative Labs will ever update their driver so it will
work on Vista?

there are beta driver at www.creativelabs.com under support

"Scott M Heller" <sheller@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:uCoh3LHSHHA.3500@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Does anyone know if Creative Labs will ever update their driver so it will
> work on Vista?

"Scott M Heller" <sheller@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message
news:uCoh3LHSHHA.3500@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Does anyone know if Creative Labs will ever update their driver so it will
> work on Vista?


Driver Availability Chart

http://193.95.171.83/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WE...se=ob j(14186)


It's a weird link that you may have to copy and paste. It also seems to
expire after a while, but you can easily find it yourself on the Creative
site.

ss.

"Scott M Heller" <sheller@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message news:uCoh3LHSHHA.3500@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Does anyone know if Creative Labs will ever update their driver so it will
> work on Vista?
>



Windows VistaT - Driver Availability Chart
Creative continues our commitment to providing superior product support with our driver development plan for Microsoft Windows VistaT.
Creative products not listed here may be classified as discontinued products which will not have additional driver updates within our software development plan.

KEY: Q1 2007 = January to March 2007, Q2 2007 = April to June etc.

X-Fi
External Solutions
Product Plan
Xmod Native Support

Sound Blaster
Internal Product Plan
X-Fi Xtreme Audio Driver available
Other X-Fi Series Cards Driver available
Audigy 4 Pro Series* Driver available
Audigy 4 Series* Driver available
Audigy 2 ZS Series* Driver available
Audigy 2 Series* Driver available
Audigy LS Beta 2 Driver Available
Audigy SE Beta 2 Driver Available
Audigy Series* Driver available
Live! 24-bit (internal) Beta 2 Driver Available
Live! Series No Development Planned
Earlier PCI releases No Development Planned
All ISA releases No Development Planned
* For a list of supported cards click here

External Product Plan
Digital Music LX (Asia) Release Q1 2007*****
MP3+ (EU&US) Release Q1 2007*****
Connect Release Q1 2007*****
Surround 5.1 Release Q1 2007*****
Digital Music (Asia) Release Q1 2007*****
Live! 24-bit External Release Q1 2007*****
Digital Music SX Release Q1 2007*****
Audigy 2 NX Release Q1 2007*****
Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor Release Q1 2007*****
Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Driver available
Extigy No Development Planned
*****32-bit and 64-bit support

Well you have Sound Blaster so it's too late. This company has always spit in
the face of it's customers and done things at their own leisure and whatever
incompatible way they could hack it out.

My advice is next time you need to upgrade your hardware go with a
motherboard that has Dolby-Certified 5.1 or 7.1 support. Intel has a couple
out. Most modern motherboard have good sound support and now with the new
Vista you will be surprised at how good it sounds.

Save your money for companies who respect you and forget about the likes of
Creative Labs.

"Scott M Heller" wrote:

> Does anyone know if Creative Labs will ever update their driver so it will
> work on Vista?
>
>

I have the X-Fi Xtreme Audio. I purchased it because I saw that Creative had
a driver for Vista. However, it has not worked for me. At one point Vista
'recognized' the card but I had many issues when running WindowsMediaPlayer,
IE, Bluescreens, etc. I reformatted my HD and reinstalled. ( I have disabled
the motherboard sound). Vista worked fine with no errors. I reinstalled the
drivers and this time Vista did not recognize the card and would not install
drivers. Well, I cannot return the card to MicroCenter. I must look to
Creative Labs for help.

My next step would be to put the card in a different slot. However, I feel
like I am working blind with no support from the vendor. What do you think?
should I just give up? Or, should I continue by moving the card to a new
slot? I am really frustrated as many features simply do not work if there is
a problem with the audio.

VISTA Ultimate RTM
Dell Optiplex GX280
2.5 GB RAM
e-GeForce 7600 GT Video


--
JNech
Houston


"Synapse Syndrome" wrote:

> "Scott M Heller" <sheller@tampabay.rr.com> wrote in message news:uCoh3LHSHHA.3500@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> > Does anyone know if Creative Labs will ever update their driver so it will
> > work on Vista?
> >
>
>
>
> Windows VistaT - Driver Availability Chart
> Creative continues our commitment to providing superior product support with our driver development plan for Microsoft Windows VistaT.
> Creative products not listed here may be classified as discontinued products which will not have additional driver updates within our software development plan.
>
> KEY: Q1 2007 = January to March 2007, Q2 2007 = April to June etc.
>
> X-Fi
> External Solutions
> Product Plan
> Xmod Native Support
>
> Sound Blaster
> Internal Product Plan
> X-Fi Xtreme Audio Driver available
> Other X-Fi Series Cards Driver available
> Audigy 4 Pro Series* Driver available
> Audigy 4 Series* Driver available
> Audigy 2 ZS Series* Driver available
> Audigy 2 Series* Driver available
> Audigy LS Beta 2 Driver Available
> Audigy SE Beta 2 Driver Available
> Audigy Series* Driver available
> Live! 24-bit (internal) Beta 2 Driver Available
> Live! Series No Development Planned
> Earlier PCI releases No Development Planned
> All ISA releases No Development Planned
> * For a list of supported cards click here
>
> External Product Plan
> Digital Music LX (Asia) Release Q1 2007*****
> MP3+ (EU&US) Release Q1 2007*****
> Connect Release Q1 2007*****
> Surround 5.1 Release Q1 2007*****
> Digital Music (Asia) Release Q1 2007*****
> Live! 24-bit External Release Q1 2007*****
> Digital Music SX Release Q1 2007*****
> Audigy 2 NX Release Q1 2007*****
> Audigy 2 ZS Video Editor Release Q1 2007*****
> Audigy 2 ZS Notebook Driver available
> Extigy No Development Planned
> *****32-bit and 64-bit support
>

"jenifern" <jenifern@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:64967144-9315-4DDE-9FA3-2B46D8EED7E7@microsoft.com...
>I have the X-Fi Xtreme Audio. I purchased it because I saw that Creative
>had
> a driver for Vista. However, it has not worked for me. At one point Vista
> 'recognized' the card but I had many issues when running
> WindowsMediaPlayer,
> IE, Bluescreens, etc. I reformatted my HD and reinstalled. ( I have
> disabled
> the motherboard sound). Vista worked fine with no errors. I reinstalled
> the
> drivers and this time Vista did not recognize the card and would not
> install
> drivers. Well, I cannot return the card to MicroCenter. I must look to
> Creative Labs for help.
>
> My next step would be to put the card in a different slot. However, I feel
> like I am working blind with no support from the vendor. What do you
> think?
> should I just give up? Or, should I continue by moving the card to a new
> slot? I am really frustrated as many features simply do not work if there
> is
> a problem with the audio.


Yes, trying another PCI slot would be the first thing I'd do. You might
want to see if there are any BIOS updates for your motherboard as well.
Check out the Dell forums to see if there have been issues with Vista.

ss.