Guide: How to install SoundBlaster Audigy 2ZS drivers on Live!/Audigy/Audigy 2

swatX

actually soundstorm is better i believe.

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leeperry

well, the "music" NEWYEAR drivers installed manually, without any creative crapware did sound better, and my card was recognized as A2Zs.

too bad they were freezing my PC

leeperry

How can I install the 2Zs drivers on my regular A2 ?

I've tried the drivers from that .iso hosted in china, windows can't find proper drivers

and the CTCOMP crack won't work either.

jiiteepee

If you do the installing process as guided then it goes OK.
I did it and it worked well (only EQ didn't cause I updated drivers to .1100).

- uninstall old drivers and apps and reboot
- extract (unrar) .iso file
- run ctcomp and select path <path where .iso extracted>/audio/setup
- install drivers or what ever you need
- boot
- update drivers one at the time (remember run ctcomp on all upgrades) and reboot


IT'S VAIN EFFORTS TO SOFT MOD A2 INTO A2Zs
INSTALL LATEST BETA DRIVES .1100 INSTEAD OF MODDING (THEY SOUND GOOD)


jiitee

leeperry

thanks for answering
so your Audigy2 is not recognized as a 2Zs in the windows device manager ?

I've never installed the creative crapware and I don't plan to.
i might try to reinstall XP, make a ghost image, and try all the builds of the hacked WDM A2Zs newyear drivers then.
maybe just the latest is freezing my PC occasionally ?!

BiGBrOwNPimpsta

stop quoting me 2 times, its quite annoying.

in terms of sound quality, audigy 2 is far cleaner and the zs driver has an EQ which nforce users used to brag about. nforce has the optical connection i think? right on the card. ive heard clarity from an nforce and audigy 2, audigy 2 wins IMO

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leeperry

I don't give a damn about nforce2, so I ain't quite sure why you're mentioning it

All I want is to use the "music mode" PAX-NewYear v1.2 drivers on my A2, without freezing that is.

leeperry

ok I've tried to install Creative_PAX-NewYearv1.2.exe again.
Using chinese as the installation language, i managed to complete it, but after I restarted, the keyboard and mouse were frozen, I couldn't type my password to open the session

how can I get the same sound quality as the "music drivers" from this package in a stable way ?

anarklov3r

Hello people, just wondering if any1 has gotten this to work on a Audigy LS??? is it possible? have any of you heard of it working? if you know about any1 getting this working, send me an email or just post here
anarklov3r
anark_lover@hotmail.com

against

Just finished this up last night on my Audigy 1 Platinum, works great!

anarklov3r

I guess there is no hope for me n my Audigy Ls..... Is the Audigy2 ZS really that good? would it be worth me upgrading form my Audigy LS to one? would i notice any significant increase in quality?? what woul dbe so different? im also using the Logitech X-530 Speakers (5.1) just in case ppl wanted to know. PS i dontk now where Newegg or whatever it is called is located but do they deliver to Australia? if they do i might just grab 1 from there they see to be reliable and relativly cheap. Any ideas or tips would be great. Oh n btw with which audigy 2 do you get that funky looking box? n what does it do lol i think i might fork out the extra cash just to make friends jealous hehehe

swatX

not really. just get a audigy 2 value much cheaper.

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LazyAzN

Heh, I'm having issues with it.
Apparently I can't install it with the setup, even with ctcomp. I have the sound blaster live! 24-bit(sorry I didn't bother looking around, TOO MANY PAGES!!!!) Is there a way to get around it? would that even mean it would work?

serpentx

I've got the same problem as you. This problem has bugged me since the new 1.0 drivers based on the Audigy4 drivers. However, the freezing problem is not 100%. After a few resets, I may be able to boot in, but that is usually like 25% of the time. Switching back to the 3.69+ series solved the problem. However, I think the 1.2 still sounds nicer. I am kind suspecting it's a motherboard problem, coz a clean format and installation of windows does not solve the problem for me. I'm using a MSI 865PE Neo2 motherboard. How about you?

leeperry

well i think the problem comes from the hacked drivers, even though we both run the same i865PE chipset. coz the latest WHQL drivers from creative work just fine, but they don't sound as good
obviously there's been some hardware changes from A2 to A2 ZS even though they use the same EMU chip. so it doesn't freeze all the time, and when i doesn't the sound quality kicks major ass.

what do u call 3.69+ ? I'm totally lost with all those New Year drivers

I've downloaded a 500 mb ISO from China but i didn't bother install all that crapware on my PC.

I only need ASIO 2.0/WDM and EAX, that's it

Is there a way to get the same sound quality as the "music mode" Creative_PAX-NewYearv1.2.exe on a regular A2 in a stable way ?

serpentx

If I am not wrong, the New Year drivers are actually based on beta Audigy4 drivers which are modded to work on Audigy1/2 series. These drivers start from v1.0. However, those based on official Audigy1/2 drivers will be called the Youp PAX drivers, and they have came a long way.

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/audio-general-technical-discussion/66519-youp-pax-series-modded-drivers.html

See the thread. I was referring to 3.69f. I'm using that now coz it's the latest one with a music edit. The latest 3.89 does not have a music edit, and it crashes my com when there's too many sound streams.

As for the hanging problem, when I was say it might be a problem with the motherboard, I wasn't referring to the chipset, but the motherboard as a whole. Maybe the drivers is bad (bad from Creative and not from modding), but most people does not have the hanging problem. In fact, my 2nd computer running of the drivers does not have the problem too. So i guess it might be something about the moherboard which is maybe of unusual implementation, like maybe the PCI bus or some small problem somewhere which the drivers is incompatible with.

LazyAzN

So I guess there is no way to get Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit to work with these drivers huh? Otherwise I'm deleting the 600MB stuff...

leeperry

actually my A2 was recognized as a A2 Zs in the device manager, that's why I think they use the A4 crapware, with the A2 Zs WDM drivers.

What about "PAX-NewYear v1.1" and "YouP-PAX 3.69g" ? did you try them ?

I dont even see a link to the 3.89 ?

I ain't sure whether the "YouP-PAX ZS v1.2 " are the same as the "New Year 1.2" but the drivers infos say : "Added supporting files for Audigy2 series hack to A2 ZS (but some A2 ZS functions are still missing). "

serpentx

Well, I think the drivers are based on the Audigy4 ones, or something close at least. It's probably reported as A2 ZS because it was simply modded to be so. I've tried v1.0-1.2, and all hangs on me. I've tried 3.69f and 3.68g long time ago, and I think I must have preferred "f", since I listen to music more of the time. As for 3.89, I don't know why it was not released as just a drivers package but anyway it's provided within the New Year 2005 software pack, which is the 300+mb one.

leeperry

ok fair enough, I'll give a shot to the 3.69f

I'll let you know how it went, thanks for your help, much appreciated :d

serpentx

No prob! =)

leeperry

OK I've tried the 3.69f ultra music drivers, they stink

the sound output is overprocessed, the bass is like +6dB(so an explosion on a DVD is like WTF?), it seems a lame stereo widener is being used, and some very short reverb as well


You can install YouP PAX 3.89 drivers for Audigy Audigy/Audigy2/Audigy2 ZS series sound cards with YouP-PAX 2005 NewYear.

Does it freeze like the 1.0>1.2 newyear 2005 ?
Do you have to install all the creative crapware ?

thanks!

leeperry

wow the 3.69g "optimized for pop music and dvd" drivers are pretty BAD ASS

I've opened ten WMP at the same time, no freezes so far

RazorX

I'm running with the ZS 443 modded drivers on an Audigy1LS, are there any great benefits from tempering with the great working drivers? Will I get the neo:6 to work, cause right now it keeps giving me an error after the first restart after the installation. Interesting is it works fine before I restart but after it it can't detect an audigy 2 card so that's that.

leeperry

ok i've tried the 3.99 they stink big time :P
the sound is hollow, and well just plain sucks.

I wish I could try the 3.89 but I don't have 400mb free on C:\ and I don't want any of the creative crapware installed.

so the 3.69g are the best in my book for a regular A2, great sound quality and stable as hell.

RazorX

Hey, c'mon there must be someone to answer my question. Does Neo:6 work on audigy 1LS qith any of the newer drivers?

blast

For anybody that has a SBLive Value, I took all the work out of it and put together a set of these drivers that you can burn to a CD, and install. It also has the 2nd to newest patch included. These have been tested on a CT4780 and a CT4620 and work perfect. You will need a bittorrent client to get them. All I ask is if you like them, is to help seed when convienent.

Get them here.


http://www.unknownserv.net/torrents/

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egyteam

doed this trick work on Live 24 bit 7.1 card ??

blast

No

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BiGBrOwNPimpsta

live 24 bit has 7.1? never knew that

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