new Sound Blaster Audigy DriverPack out

[ayoub_ibrahim]

AUD-WEBUP-W2-LB
Sound Blaster Audigy Driver Pack is now available for download as a single 13MB self-extract zipped file.

This Driver Pack is available for Sound Blaster Audigy owners operating on Windows 2000 or XP operating systems only. The driver contains optimized support for these two operating systems and is designed for use with all current models of Sound Blaster Audigy audio cards (all existing Sound Blaster Audigy Card to SB023x models).

This package supports English, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish.

Features includes:

Drivers are WHQL Certified
Provides Dolby Digital decoding from external SPDIF Input.
Speaker settings in Creative Audio Mixer are synchronized with Windows Multimedia setting.
New presets and effects added
Fixes:

Reduces excess reverb in MIDI while using software synthesizer
Removes glitches when playing MIDI using SoundFonts®
Removes distortion during AC-3 playback
Performs recording without playback
Improves multi channel wave file playback
Hardware acceleration of Open AL.
Fixed audio distortion and slow start up when resume from standby
Fixed elevation bug causing muffled sound in some games
Note:-
Please ensure that the installation CD must be installed first before running this update.

http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/drivers/latest.asp#id481

[ayoub_ibrahim]

hmm, there's a a queue there but none at http://www.asia.creative.com/support...s/newfiles.asp

[Topha]

Thanks for both links

[Gurm]

Saw the link for these the other day.

IIRC the core drivers are still version .253 or so.



- Gurm

[WyWyWyWy]

Welcome back Gurm.


If the core still is .253... why does Creative even bother releasing it!? >

[[GDI]Raptor]

Witch date is this driver signed (in Windows Device Manager)?

[lindberg]

Re: new Sound Blaster Audigy DriverPack out

Speaker settings in Creative Audio Mixer are synchronized with Windows Multimedia setting.

What the hell? They weren't before?! I just checked and darn it, they were not! I have always assumed this was true so I have actually never checked

Guess I'll update then

[Wombat]

Since we're talking about Audigy, can someone please help me with this?

The drivers have a checkbox for "Digital Output Only." If it's checked, then the digital output to my speakers works, but my headphones and microphone do not If I uncheck the box, then the headphone/mic are fine, but the speakers are off.

With my SB Live! in the computer, the checkbox is there, but instead of the box doing (digital only/analogs only) it does (digital only/all outputs). Can I get my Audigy to do this? I'm tired of toggling that damn box.

[Gurm]

Wombat:

I'll fiddle and get back to you. But you might get a quicker answer on the 3D Sound Surge forums.

http://www.3dsoundsurge.com

WyWyWyWy:

Yeah, I downloaded these to double-check. Drivers are still .253 core, although a lot of the ancillary bugfixes from the .283 UDA driverset seem to have been incorporated.

- Gurm