onboard vs audigy 2 zs

poosemon · 8 Mar 2007 at 22:17

i have just got a new computer with a gigabyte 965P-DS3 motherboard, i am running vista 64bit and currently got a audigy 2 zs card installed, the drivers for that are rubbish! how does the onboard sound compare to the audigy? anybody with any experiance with the gigabytes onboard sound?
thankyou for any help....

geff_r · 8 Mar 2007 at 23:21

Audigy 2 zs will trounce any onboard it's still a great card.

poosemon · 8 Mar 2007 at 23:52

ok, will just have to wait for creative to get there ***** in gear

A2Z · 9 Mar 2007 at 11:08

whats wrong with the zs drivers? fine for me

poosemon · 9 Mar 2007 at 16:41

Known issues:

* Applications from the original Sound Blaster Audigy CD will not work with this download.
* Users are advised to use Audio Console included in this download to change speaker configurations.
* This driver does not support the following:
o Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS™ signals
o DVD-Audio
o DirectSound®-based EAX games
o Gameports
o 6.1 speaker mode.
* SPDIF passthrough is supported on Vista 32-bit only