Audigy 1 owners - What drivers for Vista?

[agw_01]

Hi guys,

Recently replaced my aging XP installation with Vista after having used it on my laptop for the last few months.

Now, my machine is getting on a bit but as I only use it for browsing, a bit of PS and listening to music I don't want to upgrade.

Specs are...
Abit NF7-S
XP2100 @ 2.2GHz
1gb Crucial Ballistix @ 215MHz
Radeon 9700 Pro
SoundBlaster Audigy Platinum

Now, I'm getting absolutely awful performance when running FruityLoops that I didn't have when running on XP. For example, when playing the demo track (Dance with me), I've got the buffer length set to to 83ms and it's still getting underruns. Anything less and it's unusable.

I've tried the Vista drivers from the Creative website so no avail and am back on the Vista-default drivers after doing another format.

Just wondering if anyone's come across any good drivers with the stability/performance of XP variants?

Cheers.

 

[OzZie]

I found that the creative drivers weren't that great either, so i installed them first, and then did a W.U and installed the driver that appeared on there after. (I normally would never use Windows one's unless the manufacturer didnt provide any)

Then download ASIO4ALL, and install this. Go into the offline options setting that is created and set the buffer to around 1024, which should give you around 30ms latency (you cant seem to go below 512 on any system with this driver as it goes mental.) Even at 512 buffer, latency can be as low as 13ms paired with a good CPU.

Not a FL user myself so i cant comment on any other issues that may be causing issues, especially with Vista, but as you said it worked ok in XP, i would also assume Vista drivers are not up to scratch yet.

Good luck.

 

[agw_01]

Thanks for the reply Ozzie

I ran a WU but it couldn't find any new drivers so downloaded and installed ASIO4ALL.

Set the buffer to 1024 samples and installed the Vista Creative drivers which seems to have brought the latency down by 10ms.

Obviously, FL is quite an intensive program so I doubt I'm going to get it down any further on this system, especially with Creative's drivers

I was reading the thread about the alternative drivers that Creative removed from their forum. If anyone knows where to get these, it'd be much appreciated.