Problem with Vista and my Gigabyte DS4

princejim · 28 Apr 2007 at 07:33

I have just changed to Vista and can no longer use my audio front ports? Everything was working ok when I used XP anyone had the same problem, I have updated the Realtek drivers to R1.65 still have the problem.

WJA96 · 28 Apr 2007 at 09:17

Have you tried uninstalling the audio devices? Then restart the system and let Vista find them with the newest drivers.

Vista sound is a pile of poo. Whoever decided they were going to do it that way was a moron and he should be brought out so we can beat him to death with the dull edges of our useless X-Fi cards.

Participant · 28 Apr 2007 at 17:53

^ Huh?

Creative are the pranksters here. Still no proper X-Fi drivers.

WJA96 · 28 Apr 2007 at 18:37

Robbie G said:
^ Huh?

Creative are the pranksters here. Still no proper X-Fi drivers.

It's not just X-Fi, there are loads of audio devices that don't work properly under Vista.

Participant · 28 Apr 2007 at 18:41

Still, hardly MS's fault.

WJA96 · 28 Apr 2007 at 19:46

Well, they were the ones who decided to implement all Vista sound through their own software - or am I wrong about that?

Participant · 28 Apr 2007 at 20:15

Oh my god. Having now done some reading on the subject (which I arguably should have done first

) I am shocked and outraged. I apologise WJA96 for my outrageous level of ignorance!

But...

surely someone can fix it / override it? Are there not going to be patches etc or is it a case of Vista will not be able to have proper surround sound until DX10 games?!

musx64 · 29 Apr 2007 at 07:47

WJA96 said:
Have you tried uninstalling the audio devices? Then restart the system and let Vista find them with the newest drivers.

Vista sound is a pile of poo. Whoever decided they were going to do it that way was a moron and he should be brought out so we can beat him to death with the dull edges of our useless X-Fi cards.

lol your so funny

WJA96 · 29 Apr 2007 at 07:54

musx64 said:
lol your so funny

But underneath my clown make-up I'm crying

stoofa · 30 Apr 2007 at 01:53

WJA96 said:
Well, they were the ones who decided to implement all Vista sound through their own software - or am I wrong about that?

Still not Microsoft's fault.
The OS has been officially out since December with an official release tot he public since January.
Beta releases have been available to the public since at least 3 months before that.
I'm on the MS Beta team and have had beta releases of Vista for about a year before it's release in December.
Large companies such as Creative, Realtek etc will have had access to Vista Beta at least since I've had it (18+ months) if not longer.
Quite long enough to have drivers ready.

So are you telling me this is Microsoft's fault?
They told all these companies about two years ago that the way sound worked would be different.
No if's, no but's, they told them exactly how it would be different yet these companies failed to get drivers ready.
100% NOT Microsoft's fault.

PhillyDee · 30 Apr 2007 at 05:15

Ive got an X-FI. Ive now pulled it out because creative labs are terrible. They say that no microphone boost is microsofts fault. I have just installed gigabyte on board audio. Wow. Microphone boost! Think ill sledgehammer my creative card as its a pile of useless junk.

WJA96 · 30 Apr 2007 at 06:00

stoofa said:
Still not Microsoft's fault.
The OS has been officially out since December with an official release tot he public since January.
Beta releases have been available to the public since at least 3 months before that.
I'm on the MS Beta team and have had beta releases of Vista for about a year before it's release in December.
Large companies such as Creative, Realtek etc will have had access to Vista Beta at least since I've had it (18+ months) if not longer.
Quite long enough to have drivers ready.

So are you telling me this is Microsoft's fault?
They told all these companies about two years ago that the way sound worked would be different.
No if's, no but's, they told them exactly how it would be different yet these companies failed to get drivers ready.
100% NOT Microsoft's fault.

Well, you can allocate blame any way you like, but the bottom line is it's still poo. Microsoft decided they wanted it changed and, for whatever reason, it's not very good. That leaves me pretty cool towards Microsoft, although it gets better every day.