Hacked Audigy Drivers

Sumanji · 26 Feb 2006 at 18:42

Hey,

I remember reading ages ago that there are some Creative Audigy drivers out there that don't have all the bloaty crap, and soft-mod the Audigy to an Audigy 2? Where can I find these and are they any good? Or am I better off sticking with the latest official release?

Cheers,

Suman

Sumanji · 27 Feb 2006 at 17:11

*BUMP*

Someone must know?

Also I've heard a lot of people complain the drivers are bloaty, but all it installed was the Creative Audio Console, which is 1.01MB?! No new junky processes that run in the background either afaik. I am running x64, so maybe there is less junk for this OS...?

Cheers,

Suman

DinAlt · 27 Feb 2006 at 18:32

Hi,

You can find details of the modded drivers here - they seem to give good results - not tried myslef as I have an Audigy 4

http://www.driverheaven.net/

DinAlt

BoomAM · 27 Feb 2006 at 22:52

The bloat only appears for lazy users. Who cant be bothered unchecking a few boxes on the initial install.

MadMatty · 27 Feb 2006 at 23:03

http://bbs.youp-pax.org/ is a good source for a well maintained and popular alternative driver set for a number of creative cards.

SinaiSound · 27 Feb 2006 at 23:26

Whenever I install my audigy I simply updated the driver from the device manager.

No bloat that way

BoomAM · 27 Feb 2006 at 23:40

I just uncheck everything but the Drivers, Audio HQ & Surround Mixer.
No bloat, but keeps full control of the sound card intact.