Quote:
Originally Posted by ezeht
man
i just added my audigy2 zs plat pro to this system. it was on my p4 abit ic7g mobo.. creative has gone down. the new drivers what ever and bloat ware. gees..
i did a complete take apart system clean and re installed xp pro last week. i got a new evga 88 gts ko. so figured id add my audigy. well i installed all on the disc. big mistake being my game rig. too much junk running in the back ground etc.. but.
i up load lots of videos to youtube fps game play videos. the youtube multi up loader googleupdate.exe jammed up and would not delete and then i could not use it anymore. so i nuked the os and re installed it..well creative has new drivers since then..
well my next install. i did custom and did not install some stuff but nothing to worry about.. but creative nutty download installer did not stop and have me reboot what ever and nothing worked. all would crash and get the windows message etc. so i nuked the os and started over..
well this new driver stuff. well before that creative had added a media source 5 player and library and media source dvd audio player and other garbage. and still had the original media source player and library 3 freaken player programs.. but it all worked.. well
yesterday i got it all going and did the updates creative has its new drivers what ever and half the junk dont work. go only a few things on its bar work. the eax console broken eq broken. some stuff you can set what ever in the creative audio console. but not the eq.. but all the players or what ever the heck and their gui's what ever are still seen or are on my computer.. its all muffed up and retarded.. why they can not incorporate all into 1 program media source 50. i dont know and make it all work as before. i liked the way it was before.. any way.
i got it all installed and updated it seems to work after my second re install of windows and deleting and reinstalling my audigy 4x to get it right. i had to install everything or no go.. i still have all the broken gui's and media source that does not function. all the other stuff seems to work and no sound problems..but gees its so incompetent and inconsistent and ridiculous..
i will not buy creative again. but i do like my plat pro.. my guess is creative did this on purpose in hopes we will spend more money on new more modern stuff..no thanks. if my audigy goes south on me.im going back to on board.. i might any way.. i get better game performance with the on board which it should be the other way around.. creative has so much garbage running in the back ground it kills any benefits of a added sound card.. ya i can turn alot of it off so not to boot. but its still like 3 or 4 things running.. i stopped 4 or 5 others.. its crazy..
i just thought it odd you guys have no main creative thread..ha ha many folks hate creative and protest and boycott them..maybe thats why no kind of honors in adding a creative thread. ha ha its funny.
i was kind of in hope to read some on creative stuff. read of problems and fixes etc. but i will survive  
good luck to all see ya.. |
Yes indeed the latest drivers for Audigyes has problems ,the computer boots slower and some panels, like the one with Equalizer ,is in an unfinished state.The driver doesnt have WHQL and looks and behaves like a beta.
My advise is to use the driver from octomber 2006 ,its a good driver.
I always make back ups of drivers just in case.
As for Realtek the latest chips are ok but drivers are problematic too.You can t really compare a Creative with a Realtek in audio parameters ,i really dont feel the need of hearing music with Realtec chips after using Audigy 2 and Xtreme Music.As for games Creative is in lead in any case.
Creative drivers lately are in bad shape ,because they struggle to force us buy new sound cards,but bad support for older cards may have the oposite effect.