Sound Card for Vista

[Jerry]

I posted this a while back but it never showed up, so here I go again.
A while back someone posted here saying that Creative Audigy 4 sound card
worked <giving good sound> with Vista. My system is old and not worth
investing a great deal for a high end sound card. There are several
versions of the Creative Audigy 4 Sound card with prices ranging from $30-
$275. What I would like to know is which of the Audigy 4 cards work with
Vista.

Thank you

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Check the Creative web site or call their support line.

 

[Charles W Davis]

Have you run the Windows Upgrade Advisor? You may find many other components
of your system that will require replacement. If your system is "that old"
I would recommend that you don't upgrade to Vista unless you have a new
piece of hardware that requires it, which is highly unlikely.

 

[Paul Smith]

I posted this a while back but it never showed up, so here I go again.
A while back someone posted here saying that Creative Audigy 4 sound card
worked <giving good sound> with Vista. My system is old and not worth
investing a great deal for a high end sound card. There are several
versions of the Creative Audigy 4 Sound card with prices ranging from $30-
$275. What I would like to know is which of the Audigy 4 cards work with
Vista.

The cheapest will probably be fine, you'll probably find the more expensive
ones would be likely to have more issues as they require more driver
features.

I use an Audigy 2 ZS without issues here, you might also want to look at the
X-Fi, which is Creative's newest card, and judging on Creative's past
history will probably have the best support going forward.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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[Jerry]

Thanks for the reply and I will do some more looking. LOL calling Creative
is real experience. I have the live 5! now but as soon as I told them I had
NOT installed one of their cards within the last year, they hung up. I
guess they have the sales they can handle.

 

[Daze N. Knights]

I'm using the inexpensive Audigy SE (about $30 at Office Depot), which
works fine for me with the latest driver and software downloaded from here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2vqgvg

Daze
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[Cal Bear '66]

What X-Fi headaches? Other than the SPDIF output being flakey, I don't have any
problems.

 

[Dave]

Working ok here too.

What X-Fi headaches? Other than the SPDIF output being flakey, I don't
have any problems.