vista sound card question

Hey everybody 8)

I upgraded recently to vista ultimate 64bit --
too bad that my ol' soundblaster live! 24bit drivers wont work on my new setup -- now normally I would just settle for my onboard audio but my sound card must be able to connect with these 2.1 digital speakers I have.. they are nice bostons 7500g's so I would hate to bag em.. so Im in the market for a new card. I do play games, listen to music - and even do some midi work too --

.. support for vista 64bit is limited so any advice on good card to buy is greatly appreciated.

-dub

I'm running the X-Fi Extreme Music with Vista 64 and all is well!

onboard.

Agreed. I mean c'mon, people! It's been months now!
Everybody released Vista drivers for almost everything...
Like, they have one man who's doing Vista support, only on weekeends? WTF?
None of my games recognize EAX, it's unsupported in beta drivers....
This is really NOT serious business...
GRRRRRRRR.....

I completly agree with the driver issue. They have had months to finalize drivers now and they simply do not care. I won't buy another sound card from creative again even if they do eventually come out with working drivers for my Audigy 2 ZS!! I wonder if that card from Auzentech (sp?) works well with Vista or maybe that new card from Razor? I am going to install Vista on my Lappie because it has pretty standard hardware that should be easily supported. Later when more drivers are out I will try putting it on my desktop.
Summary: Creative is suck'in on this one!

Audigy 4 here and I'm using the BETA drivers too... So far DDO and WOW are working OK, but like others there are little issues here and there.

There was time when putting in C Media card right from box had poor driver dialogue box appear "no C media chip supported on sound board." In spite of being disc that came with board.

This happened for years or even decade with plenty of there sound cards models, so they are really bad people, who know dumb people will buy theiir product witrh no clue, even after having experience, it just happens again & again.

VISTA is not audio ready at all, XP runs in system & plenty of audio, Vista in same exact system just pops, & blows out.

Vista is media weakling, period. Reason games don't play is whole shebang would just blow out, making returns common. People whom claim to have systems that work fine are trying to decieve children into plunking down thousands of dollars & being extremely disappointed with no recourse & certainly own no such product themselves. Like DOPE dealers who tell you joys of some disabling potent.

VISTA is worth less than NOTHING. 64 bit is much worse than 32 bit, in fact 64 bit is unuseable.

SignedYHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.

From just reading a bunch of online stuff across the web, the 64-bit version of Vista has a lot of driver problems. Some people say everything works great but even a lot of people in these forums and forums for some online games I play are having major issues with Vista 64bit that they are not having with the 32 bit version of vista.

its not creatives fault its M$'s they basically decided to remove support for hardware accelerated sound cards, its no different than M$ deciding to ditch DX9/DX10 and have everyone use the kinda crappy driver thats used when the OS is in safe mode

I think creative are doing a great job in overcoming M$'s extremely bad decision to drop directsound and though the drivers may be causing issues they will be solved soon

having purchased an Xfi card around 1 or 2 months ago will make a lot of ppl (like me lol) really sad...

in fact this kind of things really make you get away from a brand almost forever...

too bad nvidia dropped the soundstorm...

Have youtried loading your older drivers in compatability mode? Worked for my audigy before creative had vista drivers...

However, probably best to get a new card as creative's web site states that live is not planned to have vista support.

my 2p

I have the X-FI Xtreme and I run both the 32 and 64bit Vista. I don't seem to be having the sound problems that others are having either. Maybe I'm not turning something on or off that they are. So far, the sounds works fine for me. The games I've played under Vista32 and 64 are FEAR and Fear XP, HL2:EP1, BF1942, 2 and 2142, Far Cry, Counter-Strike 1.6, Warcraft 3 and about 20 mins of Doom3

On some games like FEAR the EAX stuff is disabled, which is expected under Vista.

Granted I would expect Creative to have "official" drivers out now, but come on, Vista hasn't been release to the public for more than 30 days yet, so screaming about perfect drivers at this point is kinda silly. And look at the nVidia woes, in which some dude is trying to start a class action suit.

On a side note, the girlfriend is using on-board AC97 sound card, Though she only plays the SIMS2, But she doesn't have any problems with sound Vista32, if that helps