Creative Audigy 2 ZS platinum Vista Supp

Guys
i've a Audigy 2 ZS platinum
I bought a New Windows Vista Ultimate 32BIT
I try installing the drivers from the Driver CD its not supporting
I downloaded the vista drivers from web
and its the most lousiest driver pack i ever saw in my life
Is there any way to enable the full audio console(like THX,EAX,Graphic EQ and speaker settings) for Vista?
Why creative is not up to date with the market...
why no Vista support is available for creative.. weird...
any brilliant ideas from anywhere?

Exactly how I feel. It borders on the absurd that 5 months after Vista release Nvidia has nothing but garbage drivers and applications for Audigy2.

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Audigy 2 zs Platinum, Vista 32 Ultim

Hello all,
I'm having a problem installing the Audigy 2 zs Platinum on Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit. The computer boots and sees the card as a "Multimedia Audio Controller" in the device manager. It offers to automatically install drivers, which (naturally) fails. I've downloaded and installed the Vista drivers from Creative support, but after rebooting, the situation remains the same. I've tried pointing a manual driver install at the C:\ dri've, to no avail.
Any advice?
Thanks!
darthbith?

The Audigy 2zs will install 2 devices in Windows. One is the sound and the other is a game port. If you hear sounds then it's working correctly. As correctly as the windows update drivers allow anyway. The game port isn't supported. There won't be any problems if you leave it like this, however if you don't like to see the not installed device then install the game port support pack from here.
A better option yet would be to install the daniel_k drivers from here. These will also install the game port drivers, and offer better sound with more features as well.

Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Vista 32bit full support

I would like to know if there will ever be full support drivers for the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum card and the I/O box in Vista 32 bit's? I am looking for the ability to use my 6. speakers correctly and being able to record through Line-In on the card. I would hate to think I will have to go to a competitor for a card that works fully in Vista.

He didn't ask this in 2005, he's registered in 2005, he asked this a month ago (just look again back, I made the same mistake too )?About some replies:Yes the audio?stack in Vista must be very difficult to handle, but the companies had MONTHS, there has been A LOT since Vista's Beta versions and RC etc has been around. Everyone had enough time. I just can't play music correctly because of the current Vista drivers. Furthermore, I can't play my favorite game because some sort of application cslled audiodg eats lots of CPU while anything is playing through my sound card: not a good idea for games as they REALLY doN't run smoothly this way. What I want is not an immediate support, but a well planned approximate date for the new, clean, smooth drivers for Vista. Ok, maybe they are not ready and won't be ready until September, so I'll go back to XP. Or they are maybe ready and the developers are making the last adjustments and the driver's coming in a week or two, so I'll stick to Vista. Creative NEEDS to give this information to the customers, no one has to wait with bogus drivers. I'm not blaming Creative for having their drivers not ready, I understand that, it's technically difficult, but they should at least inform us about when will the drivers be ready.

Creative Audigy 2 and Windows Vista: Sound volume turns down when I try to turn it

I have a strange problem with my audio in Vista. I have a Creative Audigy 2 and Creative 6700 speakers. My full system specification is below but please note I did not have this issue in my previous Vista build - its only happening since I did a reinstall. Anyway, when I swich on the speakers using the remote control unit for the 6700 speakers the sound comes on but then it turns down. I have to then increase the volume by a large amount for it to start playing sound again and then turn it down to listening volume. This issue is not application specific - it happens in everything: Winamp, WMP, games, etc etc?I'm using [color="#000000"]Creative Sound Blaster Audigy series Vista Driver 2.2.0002 and I've tried reinstall several times. I've tried doing diagnostic startup etc using msconfig in case something was conflicting and its still happening.
Has anyone got any ideas whats going on?Many thanks for your help!?System specifications:?MSI K8N SLI (MS-785 v..0) nForce4 Rev. A3
BIOS Phoenix Technologies 6.00PG
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XFX 8800 GTS 640Mb XXX Edition
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Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit Edition?Message Edited by DistortedVision on 05-25-200706:4 PM

Have you checked the volume button? It might be physically stuck. To determine whether a hardware repair is needed, you need to follow these steps:
1. Try doing a hard reset:
Press and hold both the Home button and the Sleep/wake button simultaneously for about 15 seconds and release when the Apple logo appears.
After that: test the device to see whether the issue is solved.
2. If the issue is not solved, you should backup the device and restore it as new.
In that case, use: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4137
NB: set up as a NEW device because a software issue will be in the backup.
If the issue persists after restoring as new, you should offer the device for service.
If you get specific error messages/codes in iTunes when updating/restoring, check this: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3694 for causes and solutions
Good luck
Stijn

Audigy 1 + Audigy 2 ZS Platinum + Vist

So I decided to plug in my old audigy to have an extra sound card to play music and use with ventrilo.
Once I got around some problems getting the driver installed I noticed that I get no sound whatsoever out of the Audigy . When I checked the device properties for the audigy I noticed there was no tab for "Tone," "Custom," nor "Levels."
However the Audigy 2 ZS works 00%.
anyone else try this or another combination of different model Audigys?
What are the odds that this combo ever working under vista?
-- judging from some of the complaints about the lack of updates I'm thinking never?

terror_adagio wrote:
It would seem Creative's Audigy and also Audigy 2 ZS sound cards produce unwanted sound problems with RAID setu
ps.
Specifically, my testing was done on an onboard Promise 378 RAID 0 setup. The following setup was configured:Windows XP (Tested both Home & Pro)Intel Pentium 3.4C Ghz HT 800FSB2GB Corsair TWINX PC3200ASUS P4C800 Deluxe2xWestern Digital 60GB Caviar's Special Edition 8MB Cache in RAID 0Onboard Promise RAID Controller Fasttrak 378 (old and newest drivers tested)Creative Sound Blaster Audigy MP3+ Retail & Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Retail (all available drivers tested)The sound problems are heavily distorted sounds, cracks, cut-outs, and hissing when any type of audio is playing and is especially apparent with using the hard dri'ves.The standard Intel based Non-RAID configuration contains zero problems with any sound. It is only when users are using RAID that these problems occur. It would definitely be in Creative's best interest to investigate this issue and resolve a solution. This problem has been around for a long time, with no support from Creative.Please note, the onboard sound audio was tested with RAID setups and non-RAID setups and there were never any sound problems with either. All available PCI slots were tested and various PCI Latency configurations were tested within the BIOS. No solution was found.
Hi, have you find a solution?
I try to disable the Promise PDC20378 controller and the problem seems disappeared.

Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro with onboard so

Hi everyone
I've just had the above card with no I/O module...just the card only.
The sound for me is awesome from my P5800 speakers....the one fly in the ointment is - as it doesn't have a mic input - I've had to enable the onboard sound but I cant get working.... I know that they can co-exist in the same machine as others on another forum I visit, have this set up...
With the audigy in the PC, the onboard soundmax drivers wouldn't install, so I had to pull the card and the onboard got recognised and everything worked ok...recording through mic no probs...
Before I re-installed the audigy, I checked windows sound settings and had recording set to the soundmax/onboard and the playback as being from the 'modem #0 line playback' as it was the only other option available, thinking that the audigy might pinch back the 'rights' after rebooting......it did....plus the recording, no problem I though,just put it back to the onboard....arrggh - no onboard available on the drop down box, it had disappeared.
The soundmax icon is still in the systray, but if I click on it, nothing happens at all...no errors, nothing!
My motherboard is the Asus k8v se deluxe....bit stuck now as what to try...any ideas?
Thanks if you can help.

Hi thanks for taking the time to reply
No - it's not there on the drop down now...re-slotting the audigy has made it disappear from the list of available devices, as I said though, the icon for Soundmax is still sitting in the systray and r/clicking it will invoke all of the options.....apart from 'Soundmax Control Panel'.....

Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum

I can't get the External I/O Hub to do anything at all. The power cable is connected, and the power led on the hub indicates that it has power. But that is all.
I have tried looking at message boards, and reading the manual, but all the help I find is like "the microphone plug goes in this hole yadda yadda"
And I see noone else with the same problem. Help!

Maybe you should check the other components of your setup. Analogue inputs are something very different that MIDI In (which btw is recognised as "SB Audigy MIDI In 2" or similar" in ypur MIDI devices list.
Some things to check:
. Audigy mixer levels and Mute status
2. Correct Audigy MIDI In device
3. Audigy master volume level
4. Volume levels of your external sources
5. Volume levels of your speakers
6. Faulty audio or MIDI cable connectors
7. Microphone boost from your Audigy I/O hub
Message Edited by Chastity on 09-7-2006 09:32 PM

Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro not recognised by Vista 32 b

Hi
I cannot get my new computer to recognise my Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro Sound Card. Have tried a new mobo, interchanged video cards, HD's, ram, and just about everything else that could ever possibly be incompatible with hte sound card. Have even tried different power supplies. I have all latest drivers installed and have disabled the onboard sound card in the bios.I've had the card for over a year now and it used to work well in my old computer running XP.
Can anyone help
Thanks.
My system: Asus P5K Premium/Wifi, EVGA 8800GTX, Corsair 2GB DDR2 800, Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro, 50GB WD Raptor HD + 250GB Seagate, 620w Corsair power supply, Vista Home Premium 32 bit.

Sound card recognition issues are usually related to software/driver conflicts. I had an Audigy2 that thought it was an Audigy once! I'm confident that a FULL remove of Creative files will solve your issue. It did for me anyway.We've made a list of all the problem Creative files & entries that need to be removed here.http://nomoregoatsoup.wordpress.com/...tall-problems/ After that, your drivers will install properly.Hope this helps

Audigy 2 ZS Platinum S/PDIF input is "dead" on Windows 7 x64

My experience with the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum edition soundcard?pretty bad, after I bought a new machine with the following specs:
OS: Windows 7 x64 ultimate
CPU: Intel I7 920 3.7 ghz
Memory: 6 gb
Motherboard: ASRock X58 Extreme
Dual NVIDIA GPUs: 2X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 in SLI
Sound: Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro
Everything has been updated to the newest drivers.
The soundcard works fine in games and for general use. But I didn't buy this expensi've (back then) soundcard just for that. I want to use it for recording music on it through the optical digital input especially. Just like I did when I used it on Windows XP with no problems at all.
First and biggest problem:
S/PDIF as input in WaveStudio 7 (7.2.00) most often generates this message:
"The specified audio device is already in use."
and thus nothing is being recorded.
Maybe it should tell me what exactly is using it, for nothing else to my knowledge is using any audio?
Worst part is that sometimes (just on a rare occasion) it actually works. Until I reboot the system that is.
But a system that only works after a lot of struggle and only out of maybe 25 times is useless.
Second problem:
"What u hear" feature is more or less unreliable and therefore useless (most often no sound at all)
Third problem:
The volume mixer is awful compared to the one in Windows XP (most inputs missing and not really working that well if at all)
Driver update?
The soundcard drivers hasn't been updated since june, I think. Maybe it was about time to start fixing all the problems? I've read people having the same type of problems with the X-Fi Platinum card. I would be willing to buy that card?if it would solve the problem, but from what I've read I dare not. I just want a card with decent digital and analogue ports and a headphone jack. All mounted on front or top.
Help please?

**update**
I went and bought a new optical cable to see if the one I was using wasn't good enough and that was just a waste of 20 bucks.. Still nothing, I hope some one around here can tell me if they have the problem I do with any of your sound blaster cards.. I'm starting to think that maybe my card has just poofed on me. I don't think thats the case because everything else works fine.. I read also where the bit stream tab will show up as invalid signal with dolby/dts even though it's working correctly. I was thinking thats the case because like I said, the dolby digital logo pops up when My PS3 sends audio to my audigy card..Message Edited by NeutralGold on 09-8-200708:36 PM

Audigy 2 zs platinum and cubase sx prob

I bought a creative audigy 2 zs platinum and use cubase vst 2.02.
I chose creative asio in the vst multitrack window (devices menu).
the problem is the wave volume level in the creative mixer is not working when i use cubase. with other applications it works fine.
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Audigy 2 ZS Platinum - Front panel issues

Hello there,
I originally had the Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum and all was fine. It all worked and the world was happy. I then (won't go into details) managed to damage the card and whilst I still got sound, the front panel and the joystick port would not work. As it was only the card that was broken, I purchased a new Audigy 2 ZS card assuming I would be able to just stick the front panel connector back on and all would be hunky-dory.
As you probably guessed, I am here, so all is not well. Whilst the game port now works, the front panel still does not respond to anything and I am at a loss. Is there some kind of jumper I need to switch or something? What have I done wrong.
All input is more that welcome, thanks...

i am having front panel issues. i think the damage to the card is a potential problem, but i don't think it's the cause for the panel not working. i think something is just seriously wrong with creative hardware. i really don't think pre-sales testing was performed extensi'vely enough. i have had more problems with my audigy 2 platinum in the 2.5 yrs i've had it than a new born baby. to make a long story short, i did a complete upgrade of my system, the only thing i kept was my case and audigy 2 and front dri've bay. i did nothing different than i had before, re-installed windows and everything. everything EXCEPT the front dri've bay works. i do get the red light from the optical out though, so there is power. i don't know what's wrong with this thing. all i can say is: creative you need to get your s**t together, you have as many issues with your sound blaster cards as microsoft has with windows. tech support: you need to do something for once and answer posts that people ask. i posted my question about this problem 7 months ago when it happened, guess how many repsonses i have. ZERO, NONE, NADA, NOT ONE RESPONSE. i don't blame forum users, not everyone knows, i blame tech support b/c you don't respond. i have no clue why, but do something, please.

Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro Freezing Prob

Hello, i am using a Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro soundcard and whilst in playback my computer keeps freezing. I have used different software to see if it was that but both freeze in playback. I use media source and windows media player. I have Used Ad-Aware to remove any spyware and antivirus software to clarify there is not viral threat conflicting with my soundcard.
I use usb for a USB internet connection and the other for a plug and play USB Midi controller. Could this be interfering?
My computer specs are.
Windows XP Pro
2.0GHZ athlon XP
768 MB ram
60 gig HDD
64 MB graphics card
I did not have this problem before and has suddenly started happening. I hgave tried reinstalling software etc but the problem still occurs.
Please Help
Many Thanks

Thanks for this answere, but it is the wrong one, i need this one:
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Audigy 2 ZS Platinum: Optical cable doesn't recognize DTS 5.1 on Vista

Hello!
This is my first trheat, where I've been search other discussions about this subject, but noyone helpt me.
I have a Inspire 7. switched on a Audigy 2 ZS Platinum, that has a IO-DIN to connect external features (see here: http://images.americas.creative.com/...large/4659.png)
Then, I used it to play guitar without problem. But, now I want to switch on my Xbox 360 with optical cable, but it is working only stereo way. When I switch to 5., occrus a?BIP and the sound stay mute.
My doubt is: the optical in recognize only stereo sounds? How can I get 5. sounds on my xbox 360?
OBS: The sounds effects on Windows games?and DTS movies are perfect on 5. channels. The problem is concentrad on optical cable only.
PC configuration:
Q6600
6 Gb RAM
video card nvidia 8800GTS
Windows Vista 64 bits
Creative last driver (SBAX_PCDRV_LB_2_8_000.exe )
Inspire 7.

Hello KokChoy-CL.
Many thanks for your support!
I've been reinstalled the drivers and changed the options of your link, now the DTS 5. effects are quite working on my xbox.
Again, thank you!
Lucio.

Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum with Vista 64

0Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum with Vista 64Y Hi
I'm considering buying a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum (with front panel) off ebay, but first I'd like to know if certain features will be compatible with my system. I'm running Vista Home Basic 64bit (hardware is an Asus P5Q-E, Q6600, 2GB of RAM, ATI Radeon HD4850, etc). I'll be using this card for my PC's 5. surround sound system (using the stereo outputs), and more importantly, recording some music. I want to achieve this by using the optical S/PDIF port, as my bass guitar effects board has an S/PDIF output and I've got an S/PDIF cable. I'd also like to use the Line In and Mic inputs. The driver before the latest one for this card said that there was no S/PDIF passthrough for Vista. Has the latest driver got everything I need fixed, so I can just plug it in, install the drivers and then be happily recording through these three inputs?
Thanks for the help?
Message Edited by SuperMaximo on 05-22-2009 2:4 [email protected]

I am brand new to this message system but I am so desperate for help I thought I would try it. After reading lots of comments I find that my problem may be more the rule than the exception. I have an Audigy @ Platinum card and all I ever get from it is crackling and popping. I have been around and around with Creative support but nothing they tell me results in a fix. I am so disgusted at this point that I am ready to just trash the whole thing. I have gone through the BIOS and checked so many settings its a shame. Still crackling and popping. I NEED SPECIFIC ANSWERS FROM SOMEBODY...not just the generic flip the wingle wangle to port xyz and move this to that. here has got to be an answer to this maddening problem. The other thing is that now I can't get my MIDI keyboard to play back. I must have turned something off in the set up process but now I have no idea what to do.
If anyone has any solid answers for me PLEASE come forward with them before I kill someone!

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs Platinum - Smash Party Toda

I have recently spent over $0 thousand dollars on upgrading every computer in my building to Quadcore 64bit vista systems. The only component that remained the same were the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs Platinum dri'ves that every system has. I have been up for 2 days trying to figure out why the external dri've will not work at all, for any system. Everyone in the office is giving me grief over the new stuff because of thing, nobody can get their mics to work, or anything on the external dri've to function.
After reading up on the Dan.k story, and creatives deliberate attempts to be as difficult as possible, even to the point of charging me AGAIN, to make a product work (alchemy), I have decided later today were having a little get together at lunch where I will be instructing my employees to remove their sound cards, and smash them. Hey, I can afford it. Its the principle of the matter that bothers me. I used a valid email obviously to get on this forum. Shoot me an email if you don't believe it creative, and ill send you pictures when we're finished.
I have used ONLY creative products for sound since the 90s. I have at home, a closet full of creative products that I have personally upgraded from over the years. I have been a loyal customer for over a decade. Thankfully I found the dan. K story before I finished finding out weather or not the newest creative products work with vista, because Ive had my Credit Card out for 0 hours now just trying to find the right buy. Creative, you lost it big time.
Mike Wilson.
Message Edited by Revolt on 05-2-2008 08:38 AM

As an IT manager, I'd be more inclined to find out who made the decision to implement this change. Then find all the people who were responsible for deploying all of these systems out to users without testing to insure that they worked. All of these people are responsible for countless numbers of resource hours by introducing a non-tested system into your company's user community. Then, I'd introduce them all to the ever increasing base of the unemployed. The $0K hardware investment that you claim to have made is only the beginning, the overall cost of lost human resource hours will prove to be far more significant.

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