I recently built a new vista 64 pc and everything is working fine and dandy except the sound. I have a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy ZS 2 installed in the pc and a bog standard 5.1 surround sound setup. Until now i have been having to use a stereo set up because when i try too set up a 5.1 system in the windows sound option doo daa it works perfectly fine. Every speaker works perfectly. But when i have finished the process and try to listen too some music or play ANY game or do anything that outputs sound the sub woofer doesnt come on. All my sound card drviers are up too date and it works fine in the speaker set up. Thankyou in advance!
Analouge. The inputs on the backof the sub are as follow: Front Rear C/S (centre, subwoofer) And i am sure that they are all plugged in properly.
Its set too 5.1 in the Creative Audio console and the Windows Sound set up doo da. This is driving me nuts...
Heh, good luck with that. Creative audio support in Vista is terrible, if you manage to get it all working fine then you deserve a medal.
I would settle for a cookie. So is there anyway i am going to get this working. I dont want too resort to the motherboard on board sound...
The latest driver was released in march: http://uk.europe.creative.com/suppo...&driverlang=1033&OS=27&drivertype=0&x=29&y=15 still has many known issues: Known issues: Applications from the original Sound Blaster Audigy CD will not work with this download. Users are advised to use Audio Console included in this download to change speaker configurations. This driver does not support the following: Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS™ signals DVD-Audio DirectSound®-based EAX games Gameports 6.1 speaker mode. SPDIF passthrough is supported on Vista 32-bit only. Creative are lame for driver support, and with Vista, the only reason to buy a creative s/card has pretty much gone (EAX) - until creative pull a finger out, and finish their compatibility thing that their doing.
Well i was offered the card for a fiver froma mate so i snaffled it up ASAP. We will just have too see wether this driver fixes it.
For £5 its not a bad buy. Creative partly blame Microsoft for issues as "the User audio stack is almost 100% new software", although i'd say as vista was avalible though many revisions (longhorn builds) to people like creative that creative should have sorted issues before hand. I'd be tempted to sell the audigy 2 to an XP user, and buy something like: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=176635 - though the drivers are still beta, apparently they are ok for most people. And as this card is sub <£15 its a pretty good deal!
It is tempting. I would be more inclined just too keep the sound card for an upcoming HTPC project i have planned. But i will keep that sound card in mind. And i installed the drivers and nothing new. Same old story. I guess i will just have too stick with good ol' 2.1! Thanks for all your help.
The only other thing i could sugest it make sure nothing is trying to use dolby, and reduce the hardware acceleration down a notch (if the dxdiag tool still exists - i've build and sold a few vista machines, but don't run it myself, and havn't played as much as i'd normally like to).
