Audigy + WDM Drivers = Disaster?

Matt Pollard asks: "Help! I have an Audigy. I have tried it in Windows Millennium with three sets of WDM drivers. I have tried it in Windows XP with three different sets of WDM drivers. I sent the card back to NewEgg and got a new one. I tried it with a new set of drivers in XP. I tried it in my friend's box with the new drivers. I tried it in different PCI slots. every time, a hard freeze. Creative tech support has been...less than useful." Has anyone been able to get the Audigy to work under later versions of the Windows OS? If so, what was the trick?

Comments

Uhm....

[Julius X]

Is there a reason you aren't using Creative's regular drivers for Windows XP?

http://www.creative.com/support/winxp/

Audigy Specific Drivers for XP are here.

Why you couldn't find these yourself is beyond me.

If the drivers still don't work after using these, I think there might be a problem with your installation or some other hardware....

I have problems

[Bodero]

I, too, have problems with the Audigy Platinum under Windows XP. I don't have sound in my rear speakers when using analog mode. I am using the latest update from the Creative website. A lot of people on news.creativelabs.com in products.sound_blaster.audigy reproduce my problem, but none can document a fix for it if they had experienced it. They say, however, that Creative is about to release new Audigy drivers on their website, so be patient.

OK, enough!

[fm6]

I've been supportive of narrow-interest topics before. But there are too many "how do I use x with y Ask Slashdots. Unless there's a broader issue that will interest people who don't have the exact same problem, these belong on USENET or one of those mutual-help sites.

Use Linux

[duffbeer703]

I hear that Linux-Mandrake is a good distro for a beginning Linux user to use.

I think that moving to an all-Linux platform will make most of your headaches go away.

Even games are available now, since a company called Loki ports them to Linux.

Re:Use Linux

[kilrogg]

Your linking to a post in august! You can download an experimental driver from cvs at opensource.creative.com

export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvsguest@opensource.creative.com: /usr/local/cvsroot
cvs login
(password 'cvsguest')
cvs -z3 checkout -r audigy emu10k1

or here's a secret tarball:
http://opensource.creative.com/~dbertrand/audigy -s napshot-2001-11-14.tgz

So far, just the basic stuff is working (pcm, I/O, etc) so don't expect too much (and please subscribe to the mailing list and provide feedback)

Re:Perfect timeing

[afidel]

hehe that old problem. The problem is that the SB Liveware drivers install so many keys to the registry that the max registry size is overflowed. On 2k you just tell it to use a larger max size for the registry, don't remember the fix for 9x though.