I’ve tried every thing including :
- Guru3D - Driver Sweeper.
- CCleaner to clean up the registry .

but i had no luck with them.so i tried to installed the driver manually instead of clicking the setup.exe .go to the device manger in your control panel and locate your SB Audio sound Card then click on update choose the director where the drivers are located ” Vista Decoder 2_15_0003 \ Drivers\
then click next–>reboot -> click the setup file now.

I’m forced to dual boot to XP to use our Wii/Wifi or to turn my graphic card’s fan down to a quiet speed. With XP drivers, my Vista runs really great, but install anything Vista official and I lose 30% PC power.

..and like you mentioned, DirectX10 isn’t going to be released for XP. It’s looking like dual boot is here for quite some time. At least I still get to use MCE2005, which is faster than the Vista effort.

Anyway.. I’m begining to ramble. I really should get back to pulling software to pieces.

Best of Luck

Goat

Either way, if this fails I don’t think I’ll be using Vista much longer.. It’s impossible to play games that don’t have an openAL force thru. I mean look at the options - 1: Install XP Pro Sp2 and you will get surround sound for every game out there but your visuals won’t be as good not to mention engine performance from Direct X or 2: Install Vista and get your engine boost performance from Direct X and lose 50% of entertainment value just because your sound is SHIT! And even then, if Vista defaults to realtime software based sound coding, there goes a bit of your visual performance too!! Catch 22? More like catching turds from the creative microsoft skies!

Anyway bro, I’ll keep playing around with this coz it’s actually quite fun. Seen as though Creative and Microsoft are both jacking each other off now looking at all of us falling for this corporate fiasco.

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I’m afraid that I can only think of one thing left to try.
Before your Windows has booted, hold down your F8 key to access the Window’s Boot options.

Here you will find the option to “disable driver signature enforcement” and allow the operating system to use unsigned files.

The only time I’ve come across umm.. Vista not recognising Vista was with graphics drivers. This worked for me after disabling this-hope it does for you.

I should add, that I think this needs to be done every time you install “suspect” drivers. I’m pretty sure it resets back after a reboot.

Goat

I tried to install the software but it says that I need windows vista?? I have got vista! I also checked compatibility mode and it does not have xp mode or any of that checked either… hmm.. I must admit, I have been playing around with drivers quite a lot since we all experienced this stupid problem and I also tried to run Driver cleaner. Upon uninstalling the drivers and then jumping into driver cleaner to make sure, it just does nothing at all. No error message or crash. But the creative driver is still detected by it.

The other thing is that some of these supposed drivers available don’t even recognise my audigy card any more either?? Does this call for a Vista re-install? …. I hope not! If that’s the case, I may just drop back to XP pro sp2 and hope that a Direct X 10 will be written for it soon…

If all that fails, then I may take your advice and shop around for a cheaper hand party! (I do live in Australia so $60 is supposedly the norm. They call it a “rub n tug” over here ;P)

Your game should work fine in 5.1, but there will not be any EAX support for environmental echos and better 3D positioning. If you can get the EAX working - it will sound way better from supported games. For games with OpenAL support - it will sound the same regardless of ALchemy.

I’ve also just added a newer driver installer, maybe your ALchemy will work better with those drivers.

…and 60 bucks sounds a little expensive. Try to shop about a bit.

It is great to see you handling all this stuff where as the stupid Creative Labs anus punchers are doing nothing but ripping everyone off.

I was just wondering, if I grab this pack and install it, will my games work in 5.1 surround? Or will I still need that stupid Alchemy software which hasn’t worked for me so far?.. (I have a standard SB Audigy card but I could have spent 60 bucks on a handjob instead)

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This seems to work a-ok…….thanks again for your help…..but, it does seem to be just as my awkward hit and miss first install…..I still don’t understand the need for the two download files, but who cares……only program that does not function is the Diagnostics…..I get an error message that this is unsupported….any ideas on that? Looking forward, as are you, to the new Dan K. software fix…..

Bob