Dodgy sound on Vista

Eklipze3k

Eklipze3k

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I have a DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D and have just installed Vista Ultimate. Still trying to learn the ropes, thought I had installed all of the appropriate drivers but I've just installed Supreme Commander and the sound blows. I ran some MP3's through Winamp, and they are all skippy and then after 2-3 tracks the sound gets all distorted ... like an old cassette being chewed up in a shifty tape player ... anyone had any similar experiences ?
 
Get used to it! Half the audio drivers are still in beta at this time. I had some fun with a Creative Labs Audigy model sound card seeing Blue Screens of Death(BSODs) trying to use the Media Center EAX simulation effects there with the bata drivers. Letting Windows auto search for an update saw Audigy SE Live software go on when the Audigy 4 Pro is the actual card installed.

This isn't quite the same as using onboard sound. But you can see where the problems are going to be for some time with the new version of Windows out. I'll wait for the SP2 release of the Ultimate edition while multibooting the Home Premium along with XP for the time being. For awhile you will see some familiar problems that were seen when XP first came out.
 
Yeah, Vista is so new, and combined with Laziness, alot of Vista's drivers released by the various manufacturers are not FULLY functional, they are just a shell. :( Its very annoying. :@ :@: @
 
PC eye said:
I'll wait for the SP2 release of the Ultimate edition while multibooting the Home Premium along with XP for the time being.
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I wish I'd had the foresight to do that ... having had XP installed with the same theme for nigh on 18 months though, I was bored and ready for a change lol.

So basically it's just a case of wait for nVidia et al to release new drivers
 
The ATI team was already ahead since the latest Catalyst runs smooth on Vista with no problems. But for Creative sound cards and NVidia driven cards... :confused: :mad: "where's my drivers?" is heard everywhere! Each time Microsoft has released a new version the lack of available support is like it has been until recently for Linux drivers. non existant! :rolleyes: On top of that you can clearly see the green not XP with SP2 blue scroll bar upon starting Windows up. oops! SP1 for Vista or Vista 2nd edition hasn't been seen. The old pc games somehow managed to run however. http://img338.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dukestartoffsu1.jpg
 
I second that!!! What is the Nvidia drivers team doing man. They make great cards but they have crappy driver support.
 
Besides the DosBox window working the sound that could only be heard on the small speaker seen on the board for the default single and alert code beeps is now heard through a 5.1 surround sound set of speakers! At least the Creative beta drivers did something right! :D
 
Eklipze3k said:
I wish I'd had the foresight to do that ... having had XP installed with the same theme for nigh on 18 months though, I was bored and ready for a change lol.

So basically it's just a case of wait for nVidia et al to release new drivers
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I dont know what drivers you used but if you using you onboard sound try these, it has AC97
Realtek
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads...&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false#AC

The vista drivers are next to last in the Windows Box!
 
Presently I'm still trying to locate the latest board drivers from Asus on the A8N-SLI board here. So far the Vista installation is still holding up seeing the ATI oc tool up and running. But even with the EAX now loading with Windows the lack of any real support is not a big surprise. But that is where Creative Labs as well as Asus have to get their stuff together in that sense. The onboard here is disabled unless a card fails like seen on a previous build.
 
StrangleHold said:
Why dont you use these for your boards chipset, they been out for awhile. I never use the ones on the boards makers site, there always behind anyway.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce4_amd_winvista32_15.00.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce4_amd_winvista64_15.00.html
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Generally when Asus releases an update that includes drivers for onboard sound as well as the SMBus and storage drivers seen at the links there. They roll all of them into a bundle. Besides Vista already performed the auto search for those while installing the software/drivers for the wrong model SB Audigy. :rolleyes: You better hope Vienna has more then a few left out features when going to upgrade from XP eventually! Another MS flop there I guess. :P

Eklipze3k said:
Good find SH, works a treat!! Funny though, 'cos I thought it was an nVidia sound chip rather than Realtek ... I guess they're both the same thing :shrug:
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Whenever in doubt simply look over the specifications on the board you have.
AudioKarajan audio module - Realtek ALC850 8-channel audio CODEC - 6 audio jacks - 1 CD-in connector - 1 front audio connector
S/PDIF-in/out interface

http://www.dfi.com.tw/Product/xx_pr....jsp?PRODUCT_ID=3471&CATEGORY_TYPE=LP&SITE=US
 
PC eye said:
Besides Vista already performed the auto search for those while installing the software/drivers for the wrong model SB Audigy. :rolleyes: You better hope Vienna has more then a few left out features when going to upgrade from XP eventually! Another MS flop there I guess. :P
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Man, I never use the windows update driver, you only get what ever driver microsoft has, you will run into problems like your having!
 
That installed more then drivers there. The actual software for the other model was installed seeing an SB SE Live link right under the Audigy 4 in the Programs menu. Allowing Vista to search was done when there was nothing seen at all about software patches since the beta drivers were the only thing. That was done to see if there was a beta patch.

But once the SE stuff was removed the EAX loads along with Vista. Before you had to open the audio console, switch the setting to none, and then chose the effect. For the nuisance there it saw one thing fixed.
 
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