Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS and Audigy 4 Pro series driver 2.08.0002 WHQL

[Widkidone]

Link: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS and Audigy 4 Pro series driver 2.08.0002 (http://www.station-drivers.com/page/sb%20audigy2.htm)


This beta driver adds full support of the OpenAL interface for Sound Blaster® Audigy® 2 and Audigy 2 ZS series internal audio devices.

Added Features or Enhancements:

Provides full OpenAL / EAX ADVANCED HD support when used with the DOOM 3(tm) 3 1.3 patch.
Includes EAX 4.0 support for the new DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil(tm) expansion pack.
Improves performance of all OpenAL game titles, including Battlefield 2(tm).

[Hound_Dawg]

ooh sounds nice

[DeathGiver]

Too bad i have an Audigy 2 value.

[Stormy{CAN}]

Too bad i have an Audigy 2 value.

Um, have you even tried to install these (or the X-fi drivers for that matter). I have an Audigy ES (A1 without firewire), and have been running the X-Fi drivers since they came out.

Check what the device ID is for your card (Device Manager, find your card, select Porperties, Details tab, "Device instance ID"), and post it back here, and I'll check the .inf for you to see if it is listed.

To the OP, the driver version for these is DriverVer=08/29/2005, 5.12.10.1162. Haven't installed these yet (probably won't), but the question is; are these newer than the X-fi drivers, or the same ones (just with all references to X-fi removed)?

[DeathGiver]

Everest Ultimate edition says i have this. I have a Audigy 2 Value installed not an LS. I tried those X-FI drivers and it says there is no audigy 2 installed on your system.

Device Description Type
Creative Audigy 2 LS Sound Card PCI

[Stormy{CAN}]

Need the device ID, not the type of card. While in Everest, go to Devices, then Windows devices. Find your card and there should be a listing for hardware ID that looks something like this,

Field Value
Hardware ID PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0004&SUBSYS_00521102&REV_03

That's what I need to see too be able to check the INF file in both the X-fi and the drivers posted in this thread.

[DeathGiver]

Field Value
Hardware ID PCI\VEN_1102&DEV_0008&SUBSYS_10011102&REV_00

[Stormy{CAN}]

The device ID for your card is listed in the INF for both the X-fi and the new Audigy drivers,

A2 - Audigy 2 LS
%Audigy2LS.DeviceDesc%=Audigy2LS_Device,PCI\VEN_11 02&DEV_0008&SUBSYS_10001102

X-fi - ; Audigy 2 LS
%Audigy2LS.DeviceDesc%=Audigy2LS_Device,PCI\VEN_11 02&DEV_0008&SUBSYS_10001102

And sorry to say, but from the device ID, it does look like you have the LS and not the A2 Value. Might want to pull the card and check the model number to be sure (located in the top right corner, and should look like SBXXXX (mine is SB0160)).

[DeathGiver]

Model SB 0400 Audigy 2

MY audigy 2 LS is 0310

[Stormy{CAN}]

When you tried to install the X-fi drivers, did you try using the exe that you downloaded? If so, that won't work, you have to install manually through Device Manager. I know the instructions are posted here somewhere, but this will do as well,

http://www.driverheaven.net/showpost.php?p=666811&postcount=1

edit: If you want to try the drivers posted in this thread, you should be able to install them using the downloaded exe without extracting anything.

[DeathGiver]

Thank you stormy. It use to read 10.24.2004. Now its the latest. Btw anyone know what that DLL is for. It appeared right after i rebooted my computer.





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[soraflair]

Alright thanks for the heads up.

[Stormy{CAN}]

Does your motherboard have, or were you using a Cirrus Logic based sound card? A quick Google search reveals it to be related to that. Based on that, it should be safe to delete (Recycle Bin to start with, then make sure everything works right be deleting completely).

[DeathGiver]

MY computer has a onboard sound.Which is diabled. My sound ingame seems to sound better and run much faster.

[Stormy{CAN}]

MY computer has a onboard sound.Which is diabled. My sound ingame seems to sound better and run much faster.

That's all any of us can ask from new drivers.

As for that dll showing up on your desktop, who knows why it did, but it most likely means that there were some bits and pieces leftover from the onboard.

[NoSoup4You]

I installed this driver, and didn't notice a huge jump to be honest. Perhaps on a lower-end system it will make a significant difference, but not on mine.

Oh and also, why isn't this on Creative's website? They are still offically on an Apr 05 release.

[Stormy{CAN}]

To get full advantage from the new drivers (either the new A2 or X-fi), don't forget to do the OpenAl fix as well,

http://forum.eagames.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=3256

[DeathGiver]

OK i have a slight problem now. I uninstalled my audigy 2 due to crackling and popping sound in BF2. I uninstalled it rebooted reinstalled everything with the CD that came with the sound card. I rebooted and now i cant select the EAX console. Says reinstall application which i have done several times and i still cant select the eax console.


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[DeathGiver]

Anyone?

[Furious-AGE-]

you'll need to do a clean sweep and reinstall, check creative's support site for instructions

[DeathGiver]

Everything works now.