Vista64 + Creative = random no sounds?

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The Vista64 setup has come a long way in recent weeks, its now 6 weeks that I have been using it and I am now in acceptance that anything bad that I have ever said about vista has been wrong.

However, I still have a few niggles, but this one is one that is curable instantly in fact, but its cropping up now every 5 minutes and becoming a chore thats no longer funny...

I have found that it does it on my XFI Fatality and the Audigy 2 ZS

Now, I am currently using the ZS, so we will go on that for now, purely because, as I said it fdoes it on my XFI exactly the same, so swapping them over is not going to cure a thing.

Basically, the Card just suddenly decides that its no longer going to bother playing any sounds...

Just 15 minutes ago, I suddenly noticed the sound was now very echoey and when I hada look at the control panel for it, it was not playing the 2 front speakers, only the Center , Bass and Rear Speakers, but then, when I clicked on test, it didnt play the rear at all, so I played the test again, and this time it did play the rear right, and loud too as if it was a main speaker, but then nothing... on any of them?

I set them to just stereo and no sound at all and I put them back and again, Im hearing nothign.

Now, I had to reinstall the drivers only 3 or 4 days ago, and a week prior to that, and it seems that im only able to keep the setup playing audio for a max of about 5 days and the only cure I have so far, is a reinstall of the Drivers?

The cards are fine because I swap them with my XP64 PC and they work perfectly in that.

I have tried various PCI slots over time, and they make no difference either.

The Drivers Im using are

SBAX_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0001.EXE ( 35,734K )
 
Hinted at a cure? Thats no hint, its a kidnapping, and force-fed an advertisement campaign down my throat!!!

LOL

Seriously though I already have a xonar, ist a great card, however...

I need the Live Drive...

I need it for a few reasons

1 - My speakers have no headphone socket, the Live Drive gives me this.
2 - The Live Drive has AUX inputs - I need this
3 - The Live Drive has a Digital Coaxial Input - I need this too!
4 - The live Drive has a mic input - The kids needs this to get on my nerves

So, seriously, I need the Live Drive, the front panel thingy what-u-may-call-it.

The Xonar divent have that!

At this time, I seem to be forced to stick with the creative, and besides, its fine under XP64 so, Id rather go back to XP64 than lose the drive bay.
 
XP64 & Vista64 like Chalk and Cheese? Explain.

For me, While this PC is running Vista64 and has only minor irritating issues, its running Vista fairly well.
I have it running with the classic visuals, no irritating sidebar, no background, nohting. It looks pretty much the same as XP did, and that I made to look like my old Win2K box... Nice boring and basic.

I have not found a single reason to stick with Vista64 as I feel that it gives me nothing that XP64 cannot apart from such sillyness as the SoundCard actualyl works under XP64. I would like to also add that DirectX 10 is another reason, but after seeing COD5 I now see thats a useless gimmick too!

Whatever they are like, I have not had a single problem in over 3 years with any Creative card under XP64... Sure, all that software does not run fully under XP64 but thats actually a positive, and all the functions all work perfectly.

So, going back to XP64 is a strong possibility now.

Try searching for a few hours? Are you being funny? I have searched for a hell of a lot longer than that and in typical internet fashion, I have come across hundreds of people with hundreds of supposed cures but nothign that cures this.


But the fact remains... I really am liking Vista for its good points, and I do want to try to stick with it. I have spent enough money trying to get my software to be Vista compatible and the last thing I need right now is to spend even more to get my hardware to work under it too!
 
Have you tried changing the Pci latency timer from 32 to 64?

I had the same problems with my old set up and doing this fixed it, On my P5K Premium i dont have the options but i dont have the problem

No, I have not.

Just done that now, its at 64 ( Options are 32,64,128 ) and reinstalled the drivers ( what the hell ) so lets see where we get yeah?

Thanks mate.
 
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