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Old May 9, 2003, 06:14 PM   #1
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Beta *AND* Official Audigy/Audigy2 drivers.......

I believe these are different than the official ones release in Asia today and mentioned in the other post.

For those who want to experiment, here's Creative's BETA PERFORMANCE drivers.

http://www.tomshardware.fr/download.php

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This update is exclusively for Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy 2 users running on Windows 2000 or XP ONLY.

Fixes & Features:

Sound Blaster Audigy Specific

Sound Blaster Audigy performance increased by 10%-15% for EAX ADVANCED HD

Number of simultaneous voices has been doubled from 32 to 64

Sound Blaster Audigy and Audigy 2 Benefits

Reverb presets setting by game audio engine is now on average 10X faster

EAX Morphing performance enhanced, typically yielding a 2X improvement in frame-rates for morphed sections.
For the offical 9 May 03 release, the readme is different.

direct link - Asia site


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Filename : AUD2DRVLB030425.exe

Date: 9 May 2003 File size: 6.88 MB
Audigy 2 DriverPack 3 (WDM Drivers)
SBA2-WEBUP-W3-LB

This update contains fixes to improve the performance of your Creative Sound BlasterĀ® Audigy(TM) 2, Audigy 2 Digital Audio, Audigy 2 Platinum and Audigy 2 Platinum eX.

Features or Enhancements included in this update

There are no new features in this update.

Fixes included in this update

Optimizes EAX 3 performance
Improves CMSS2 performance
Adds Audigy 2 Platinum support for pre-installed/system integrated Audigy 2 cards

Before installing this update

Be sure that you have:



Windows 98SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows XP installed
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 or Audigy 2 Platinum eX audio card installed
Note:

This update contains only the WDM drivers. There will not be future updates to the VXD drivers, which are no longer supported by many third-party applications. For the best user experience on the Audigy 2 series, please use the WDM drivers.
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