Vista and soundcard woes.....

dragona

Heya all
Am dual booting Vista/XP at the moment, because I have rubbish sound on Vista.I have an old Creative soundblaster Live!Value card which works ie I get sound but it is dreadful.Took me a week to get dodgy drivers for it, as initially I had no sound at all :-(( I need a new card and I need one now -tomorrow will do! I know not to go Creative, but can anyone recommend a good (not too expensive) card to run on VIsta 64bit?

Stephen

Check the settings in the creative driver/volume control. When I installed Vista drivers for my Audigy 2 it sounded like complete ass - because creative set the default settings to complete ass! They had treble and bass set all arseways by default. Once i tweaked them it was fine.

Quatre Mains

I can;t recommend you a specific card, but I will wanr you away form the m-audio delta cards. They have no vista drivers and there are no signs of any coming soon.

dragona

HELP!! Will be going to Liffey Valley Monday,PC World..... can get into town, just need to know what to buy?????? What have you vista people got???????

dragona

Stephen wrote:

Check the settings in the creative driver/volume control. When I installed Vista drivers for my Audigy 2 it sounded like complete ass - because creative set the default settings to complete ass! They had treble and bass set all arseways by default. Once i tweaked them it was fine.

Yeah well I have a soundblaster live value card circa 1990 something, and it just is not right.....have googled to death but no definitive answer as to what to get...

8T8

Creative just released a new set of drivers for the SB Live under Vista, may be worth a go.

dragona

8T8 wrote:

Creative just released a new set of drivers for the SB Live under Vista, may be worth a go.

Great! Thanks for that, will give it a try and let ya know!

Tazzle

Just following on from this. I had the same issue, I found these 3rd party drivers for some SB chipsets, check it here

http://www.driverheaven.net/general-discussion/128197-3538m-released.html

Gives much better sound quality for cards such as SB Live! 1024 and Value under Vista. Though there really is no excuse for still having these soundcards

See also: http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/

Guy:Incognito

I've had no sound since I upgraded to Vista. Its a dell dimension 4700. As far as I can see the makers of the board (its onboard sound) havnt bothered to make a vista driver (and are not going to bother). Pan in the arse. A cheap AB seems to be the way to go.

dragona

Well, worry over.Pulled out the soundcard,bought new speakers and am using the onboard sound.Great -Vista has sound, but XP doesnt! Am going nuts.

8T8

What make motherboard is it as usually you can get the drivers just from knowing the make & model.

dragona

Its an ASUS P5B - I dont understand why on Vista there is sound, but not on XP. They are installed on separate hard disks.

8T8

Vista has much more up to date hardware database of drivers compared to XP which is a few years old now.

Vista supports almost all current HD audio integrated audio chips out of the box whereas on XP you have to install the HD audio patch and the driver to get it working.

The WinXP driver can be gotten at this link.

Also if you want to expose more functionality from the onboard sound the Vista 32-bit/64-bit driver at this link.

dragona

8T8 -thanks for those links. I had luvverly Boston speakers for YEARS which are now in the loft, but bought some decent Logitech ones which are OK. I think the problem was my digital speakers with the onboard sound.....