Audigy SE to X-Fi Xtreme Audio

welly321 · May 7, 2009

ya i dont know...Have you disabled on board sound in the BIOS? I had the same problem with mic volume on my realtek and the audigy 2 fixed it. I use the Audigy vista support pack drivers.

silkstone · May 7, 2009

Yes, i remembered to disable it. i'm not using the audigy drivers because the sound card sounds pretty shocking without crystalizer

alexp999 · May 7, 2009

wow didnt even know this was possible, my dad has an Audigy SE in a box somewhere that he doesnt use anymore, maybe I'll give this a go especially as 4.2 seems to work under Win 7.

I take 4.2 is the latest modded driver? And its x64 right?

welly321 · May 7, 2009

So the 4_2 drivers wont work with an audigy 2 zs?

Mussels · May 7, 2009

welly321 said:
So the 4_2 drivers wont work with an audigy 2 zs?

there are different mods for different cards. You'll have to google what one works with the audigy 2 ZS, as its a true hardware model while the audigy SE and value cards were software based.

welly321 · May 7, 2009

hmm ok thanks for the help

silkstone · May 7, 2009

welly321 said:
So the 4_2 drivers wont work with an audigy 2 zs?

DK has a modded drivers for your sound card http://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/
I don;t know how good they are however.

Mussels said:
there are different mods for different cards. You'll have to google what one works with the audigy 2 ZS, as its a true hardware model while the audigy SE and value cards were software based.

Yup i regret buying a software based soundcard as the software based realtek drivers were just as good. I even think i figured out how to get the crystalizer software working with them without buying a key.
I might be putting my new audigy value in the bin in protest to such a crappy product made my creative.

welly321 · May 7, 2009

Maybe thats the issue then. I thought you were using the same card as me. All i was really expecting out of the audigy 2 was a fix for my mic issue. It did that and also improved my sound quality so i am really happy with it. I am going to try those drivers and see how they work out. I will post here for anyone else that has an audigy 2 zs

silkstone · May 7, 2009

welly321 said:
Maybe thats the issue then. I thought you were using the same card as me. All i was really expecting out of the audigy 2 was a fix for my mic issue. It did that and also improved my sound quality so i am really happy with it. I am going to try those drivers and see how they work out. I will post here for anyone else that has an audigy 2 zs

Yea, your card is much better. I know that mine is low end but, i was still expecting some kind of improvement over my onboard especially as the X-Fi Xtreme goes for $70 over here!

KainXS · May 7, 2009

welly321 said:
Maybe thats the issue then. I thought you were using the same card as me. All i was really expecting out of the audigy 2 was a fix for my mic issue. It did that and also improved my sound quality so i am really happy with it. I am going to try those drivers and see how they work out. I will post here for anyone else that has an audigy 2 zs

the x-fi drivers for the Audigy 1 2 and 4 are done via software emulation I think so the downside is your card is not gonna be able to do eax via its hardware

kenkickr · Jun 11, 2009

I hope you don't mind me putting this here but last night I was able to install the Win 7 beta X-fi xtreme audio drivers to my Audigy Live! 24-bit. I can't seem to get the installer to work but was able to manually install the driver after adding the DEV ID's to the P17 app file.

kodiakus · Jun 15, 2009

In place of my no longer relevant question, I have a new one.

I have a Live! 24-bit card. The 4.2 drivers work. But all they really do is make noise. I can do whatever I want to any of the EQ, CMSS, and EAX settings, but it makes absolutely no difference whatsoever in sound quality. THe only thing the creative console has become is a very fancy method of managing volume levels, that's all it really changes. any ideas? I'm on Windows 7, but that shouldn't be the problem, I saw another person here running it fine on W7.

KainXS · Jun 17, 2009

I tried it on 7 a while back and it worked, check this post

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=1366650

it sounds like a problem with alchemy or openal, remove all instances of the previous driver and use the one I linked to in that thread

mpq1671 · Jul 26, 2009

Same on my Audigy on Win7 with these drivers. Only volume control works fine... If some1 know how to make them to work properly post it plz.

Broman48 · Dec 9, 2009

Sorry for the big bump, but I've been searching for about an hour and still found no answer.
Using the 4.2 drivers, I managed to install them on Windows 7 64 bit and had the card show up as X-Fi in the device manager. Sound works, but I don't have any control panel. Any idea why I can't bring up or install the control panel? I can't really test to see if these drivers are really working as X-fi without it.

I was originally using the unnoficial "SB P17X Series Support Pack 2.0 (07/31/2009) - AudigySE/Value/LS_Live24bit_X-Fi XtremeAudio_SB5.1VX" for my drivers, which included the control panel. The official drivers did not.
What would I need to do to get the drivers as X-fi and include all the stuff in the Support Pack? For my first install of the X-fi drivers, I had the control panel with the X-fi settings too, but there was no difference in quality, so I thought I might've installed it wrong.

Duppyman · Dec 11, 2009

I have the exact same problem as broman. I install the driver mod and it SEEMS to work until you try to do anything in the console. Nothing responds you can turn any effect/ single speaker volume up or down and it will make no difference. I did install the audigy SE daniel K drivers on the creative site and they work but my bass is crap now for some reason so im blaming it on the audigy drivers themselves, can ANYONE please help us? to be clear we want the audigy to x-fi xtreme audio driver mod to work in windows 7, and by work I mean function not just show up in device manager

thanks guys

Meizuman · Dec 20, 2009

I have been trying to get the EQ working on my Audigy SE in Win 7, but with no luck. Today I downloaded the "Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio driver" (1.04.0090XFXA_PCDRV_LB_1_04_0090.exe) and first I tried to install it, but of course it wouldn't find the sound card... Then I "unzipped" it with 7-zip and manually updated the driver... And yes it works. Then Win 7 started to install all these nonsense programs and you cant stop them installing. Rebooted and sound is ok. BUT. There is no way to control Bass Boost, Bass Management or EQ. :mad:

Creative Audio Control Panel works and EAX and CMSS can be controlled there, but none of the options mentioned above will work.

Win 7's own Sound properties shows all the mentioned things but nothing happens when clicking or double clicking them or the "Settings..." it looks like it loads something when clicking on settings but ~~nothing happens after that.~~

Anyone else got the EQ working in Win 7?

EDIT: It loads the Audio Control Panel, which is lame.

EDIT2: Got the EQ to work! Found Daniel_K's "SB P17X Support Pack 2"

It seems to use the same driver that I tried before (X-Fi Xtreme Audio).

Duppyman · Dec 22, 2009

yea but when you install the support pack you get the SB audigy drivers again D: and i notice a HUGE difference between x-fi and audigy drivers on my z-5300s.

Broman48 · Dec 24, 2009

Duppyman said:
yea but when you install the support pack you get the SB audigy drivers again D: and i notice a HUGE difference between x-fi and audigy drivers on my z-5300s.

Does that mean you got the drivers working properly? EAX effects and the control panel?

To install these is it as simple as getting the Audigy to X-fi and then installing the X-fi drivers as if I had an X-fi card?

Duppyman · Dec 24, 2009

I tried using the modded drivers then installing the x-fi support pack and it gave me the no device installed thing. The only way to get the SB audigy SE working on windows is to install the Daniel K SB support pack, but then you only have your shitty SB audigy card. To my knowledge there is no way to install any current modded drivers and have them work fully. Still waiting on a genius to help us out D: until then keep searching and keep us updated!

Mussels · Dec 24, 2009

daniel K's blog has gone offline, it seems he's either in hiding, or been forced to take his stuff offline.

odds on updated mods are unlikely without him.

fango · Jan 1, 2010

.. I also try vista drivers (Audigy to X-Fi Extreme Audio 1_04_0079 XP Vista 4_2) on windows 7 32 (audigy SE) but only thing I manage to get is BSOD, so I'm back to default creative driver, any suggestions how to make this work?

thanks!

Meizuman · Feb 1, 2010

Duppyman said:
yea but when you install the support pack you get the SB audigy drivers again D: and i notice a HUGE difference between x-fi and audigy drivers on my z-5300s.

Sorry if I sound rude, but just want to make sure... That you have tested both drivers without any equalization and all effects (crystalizer, CMSS) disabled.

I do remember that when I first installed the modded X-Fi Xtreme Audio drivers in XP, I could hear the difference...
But the driver version in the Support Pack is the same as in Xtreme Audio, only the name should be different.
I have had my Audigy seen as Xtreme Audio in the device manager in Win 7, but it didn't have just about any functionality that I needed.

Duppyman · Feb 1, 2010

Meizuman said:
Sorry if I sound rude, but just want to make sure... That you have tested both drivers without any equalization and all effects (crystalizer, CMSS) disabled.

I do remember that when I first installed the modded X-Fi Xtreme Audio drivers in XP, I could hear the difference...
But the driver version in the Support Pack is the same as in Xtreme Audio, only the name should be different.
I have had my Audigy seen as Xtreme Audio in the device manager in Win 7, but it didn't have just about any functionality that I needed.

Same with me. At this point you either install the support pack for Audigy SE and settle with those drivers and a working console launcher, or you install the x-fi xtreme audio drivers and have it listed in device manager as so, but have no functionality at all.

Meizuman · May 3, 2010

Just installed X-Fi driver (p17.inf) manually on top of the support pack 2 and now I have "SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio" instead of "SB Audigy" in Device manager

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