NEW YEAR PACKAGE for SBLive/Audigy/Audigy2/Audgiy2ZS series

humeyboy

I have worste sound on these new pax driver+app, that i did on the standlone 1.2driver and xmax pax (both seperate),on my ZS and 7.1 creative crappy speakers, esp bass.

It sounds fine on my pals pc with Audigy 2 and 2 speakers.

I cant get on my pc the THX to complete calibration and the above monitor for centre speaker to stay at this setting.

I was going to redo with old 1.2 driver then install all new pax apps, but this new drtiver caught my eye, http://us.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp?region=1&langid=1&filename=SBA2_BETAD RV_US_2_05_0000.exe&details=1"

WhiteEagle

http://mitglied.lycos.de/dohmoep/pic...wYear 1.2].htm

NewYear 2005 Package + Pax NewYear 1.2

origin soundcard: audigy 1

system: p4 2.4C HT, 1gb ram, ati radeon 9600 pro

really strange? results. could have some wrong settings while doing the benchmark.

humeyboy

Sorry i have to doublepost, but this channel dont seem to let you psot link it disappears when i type new line bellow it, anyhow i got issues in Doom3 Resurrection Of Evil, with 5.1 surround sound going of leaving no sound, you even have to choose 5.1 in windows setting or you get no sound to start of with, even though creatives speakers settings are ticked to sync with control panel, anyhow this new drive has openGL fixes for Doom.

Can we get mod if it ?

humeyboy

Ok i installed these beta drviers and sounds quite good on these crappy speakers, but i cant load creatice go or go launcher, all rest works, maybe my protection for registry has stopped but i dissabled it, so it should work, possibly the drivers not support and now bass speakers makes noise when i run noise test in both creative speakers settings and THX, but still cant calibrate THX ot get centre speaker to stay at top of monitor, but i think thats apps to blame not driver, i will redo them all.

jiiteepee

Hi

Here is RMAA 5.4 results for Audigy 2 card using Creative original drivers v.5.12.01.0496-1.86.0160.

I've got some better noise/dynamic (~101 dB) results using other drivers, but THD% was then little higher (0.0030%). Stereo crosstalk was a bit lower (~-87dB).


jiitee

jiiteepee

Hi

Yes, there is something wrong. Results are alike measure in 16/48 mode (this row shows it 'IMD at 10 kHz, %: 0.0063').

jiitee

jiiteepee

Hi

Your results are really weird. Did you check the Audigy related documentation from RMAA site?

jiitee

humeyboy

OK i did total removal and clean up of all creative entries and installed new creative beta driver and pax apps not pax drivers.

Everything is ok but the above mentions THX wont Calibrate or let me keep centre speaker above monitor setting, i feel this is this new pax package problem as it was fine in the 1st newyear pax.

I also dont have creatives speakers selection in sync with windows control panel, altough it worked before when i psoted i had installed these beta drivers, i still have to go into windows control panel to select 5.1 to get surround sound in DOOM 3 Resurrection Of Evil, cause the windows setting wont follow my setting i change from 7.1 to 5.1 in creatives settings just before i lauch game, bummer as it worked earlier without a clean install of all drivers/apps.

Creative go and go launcher work now same as before.

This beta driver has the best sound so far for my bass on these POS 7.1 speakers, i had to set bass redirect on last pax install as bass was totally crap and unnatural, its not perfect but i blame speakers, but deff better than ever before.

I wish i had kept old newyear pax as i has 0 issues but i deleted them as these worked fine on my pals audigy2 i installed them for him clean.

WhiteEagle

@jiiteepee
i read the doc on the page. shall i have a look in the doc for audigy or the one for audigy2 zs (platinum)??

i used in the last bench the settings for audigy2 zs.

jiiteepee

Hi

I think it don't matter if you do those settings mentioned for Audigy.

This is not so easy, because I do not know what all software 'mods' there is in this
driver package. One thing is clear: your hardware is the same as before eg. Audigy.

My settings:
Cable should be set from LineIn to LineOut 1. Volume 100%, Wave/MP3 100%, LineIn 1 50%, Rec (AnalogMix) 50%.
And :
All disabled from EAX , THX, EQ, Mixer, Speaker calibration, CMSS, ... all other but not the Line In, Rec:Analog Mix and Wave (from Surround mixer).

jiitee

Shaga

Any chance of making sb live! 24bit sets?

I'm looking for new card, perhaps upcoming PCI-E cards or then just audigy2/zs. Meanwhile I might be interested to see what I asked during my first line with this post.

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WhiteEagle

and what about your programm setting?
did you choose 16bit or 24 bit (48khz or 96khz)??

jiiteepee

On RMAA, Audigy can handle tests in 8/16/24/32i/32f bit but only 44.1,48 and 96
kHz (full dublex needed).

My RMAA results were from 24-bit/96 kHz test.

Check from RMAA options that WDM driver is allowed.

jiitee

Shaga

What about does these PAX-drivers support SB Audigy2ZS Platinum(not pro, and bulk[some call it oem]). I'm about to order one to use instead of this sb live! 24.

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Tappy

I have NewYear 2005 Package and they sound great and I have 24\96 recording. As I said in previous postings, great job. However, since installing these drivers I have not had the need to turn off my computer and when I tried to yesterday, I could not. My system would not shut down, would not restart (even with ctrl, alt,del) and would not turn off when the power button was pressed . The only way I could get my systwm to reboot was to press the reset button or turn off the power. Just wondering if anyone else had this problem. Before I installed these drivers there was no problem.

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512M RAM
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Audigy 2 ZS, Platinum

Software:
Sonar 3
Cubasis (supplied with soundcard)
Cool Edit

ironickSQUAD

How can I download PAX-NewYear2005-AX.rar (all links are down) ?
Is there a mirror ?

swatX

search the filename at filemirrors.com

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ironickSQUAD

On the filemirrors.com I find just PAX-NewYear2005.rar.
I need PAX-NewYear2005-AX.rar if it is posible.

Thank you
Best regards

Shaga

You could as well search for PAX-NewYear2005.7z, it's way smaller.

And there are none AX-version anymore, PAX-NewYear2005 includes both audigy- and livestuff.

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ironickSQUAD

I have Audigy 2 ZS (bulk version).
PAX-NewYear2005 is the best for my soundcard ?

Shaga

One good mirror if you can't find the drivers:
http://ordorica.org/index.php?id=31

I'd say yes if I had tried this set for gaming or dvd watching. I installed these on my friends live! and at least he hasn't notice any errors yet. I use these drivers in my work for live! and music plays nice.

I'm waiting for my Audigy 2 ZS bulk, and I'll definetly install these. Looks good on paper and I don't like how Creative handles their drivers so I'm quite sure YouP PAX's are much better.

I'm getting my new sound card quite soon, and will be reporting results.

If you are after music making, hardcore sound editing & recording and not gaming -> I recommend to install kxproject drivers(you can find them from this same forum), but then again, if you would be seriously into that stuff, you wouldn't have audigy2

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Floruro

Try these drivers for your audigy2 / 2ZS :
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...3&page=1&pp=15

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humeyboy

[color=#0000ff]Audigy 2/Audigy 2 ZS series Beta driver with OpenAL support[/color]

Remember i said the aboive new beta drivers sorted doom3 etc and sounded great, well thats still true but >

BTW, i forgot i hadnt tried my 2 dvdaudio discs on this new driver, i was unable to ever play dvdaudio on ZS, was ok on audigy2, i only got to hear my disc lately as of leaked drivers/apps on station-drivers and the mod pax on driversheaven.

Man i nearly feel of my pc seat, my speakers erupted with the old familure sound of a cat getting strangled, it totally hung pc i had eject dvd try even then nosie still wnet on i had press reset.

These drivers may fix games but sure are normal creatives POS, ive asked the asian guy to try mod them or another audigy 4 driver.

Thats quoted from a post i made elsewhere.

Vighi

Hey man! I have a Audigy 2 ZS card, and the only thing i have installed is newpack drivers with all features.. Can i just install this or do i need to uninstall something?

GeneralClaymore

i dont know what u did but dvd audio also sound great with these drivers. sound like u didnt uninstall the drivers first ,b4 u put these betas on. they said to take the drivers off b4 u did.

i dont think there pos cuz they worked great for every thing i tried. i tried dvd movies, dvd audio. my games and music and i notice them sounding better.

one more thing hes name is Classic Leon not Asian guy, you need to learn how to call people by there names. not by there race.

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humeyboy

Im not a n00b, i did remove this pax driver and clean up, i even remove all and started over, i never had ability on ZS to play dvd audio without a leaked or modded creative driver as their POS.

Anyhow i can live without dvd audio, but creatives software and support sucks.

Damn its same in DVD, same old Creative sh1t software / support

GeneralClaymore

Remember this is a beta drivers so expect problems. there software aint sh1t , if it works for me then it aint. And If your having problems , then its u who aint doing right cuz even with the normal drivers my dvd audio works, so the only problem i see that could be is the person between the montior and the chair.

That sound like u didnt plug ur sound card into ur dvd/cd drive the small skinny gray cable that goes into the Digital out on ur cd/dvd drive into the connector on ur sound card. so it sound like more user error then creative fault. Cuz i like i said b4 i have dvd audio working for me for both beta and normal drivers. so b4 u blame creative , check ur self.

Cuz users can be the ones who make the problem. instead of the hardware or software. open up ur computer and see if u got that connection plug up, check and make sure. cuz it has to be you if my dvd audio works with both normal and beta.

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humeyboy

[color=#0000ff]GeneralClaymore[/color] vbmenu_register("postmenu_591794", true); , I build pcs for a living but normally use the 5.1 sound onboard as creative is to buggy their forums are full peeps and i bet they aint all noobs and most will know more that you have showed so far with your missinfo.

The ZS had really bad buggy software and creatives drivers read me files even tell you its to fix these issues, if i was to blame it would be fixed with leaked drivers from station-drivers or from here with pax.

You no longer in modern pcs need the stupid audio cables as the digital sound will use the eide cables, years ago you had use the analouge cable to soundcard and that digital socket isnt even for connecting to a soundcard although many think it is, its actually for testing in the factory and thats why many only have analouge sockets, the digital socket doesnt even appear on the manual, you can google it and download .pdf and look on the pioneer 109.

"cdrlabs.com/reviews/index.php?reviewid=260&page=Features" < wont let me paste url, put WWW infont.

Quote "The rear of the DVR-A09XL looks very similar to Pioneer's other DVD writers. By looking at the picture below you can see the drive's IDE interface, power connector and analog audio output connector."
"Starting from the left of the IDE connection you'll see the jumper switch for master, slave and cable select. By default the drive's jumper comes set to master. Next to the jumper block is the analog audio connector. Contrary to popular belief, the connector on the far left is used for diagnostics, not audio."




The forums on creative are full lamers who flame peeps saying its intel or amd to blame and NAV etc etc, well its funny these pax run perfect on a rig with amd and nf2mobo and NAV.

I was stating a fact about new beta driver not asking for help and nothing you said has any real input and that digital socket LOL.

GeneralClaymore

Well i was telling u that my dvd audio works i have that plug in. i was trying to help. i dont care if u think ur better then me, people that think there better then others make me sick. Going u beeing fixing computers for yrs dont make u perfect, people builting computers for a long time can makes mistake also no ones perfect.

User error is one thing that be the problem when people having problems with there hardware. it be the problem between the chair and the montior most of the time.

they wouldnt put that digital cord in there for nothing. its there for a reason i suggest u plug it up to see . dont go well its there for testing, cuz thats BS, they dont put un needed items in a box for u to look at. i suggest u open up ur computer and plug that in to see. cuz i have that plug in my dvdrw drive and i telling you that it works with both the Normal Creative drivers and the Betas.

I was telling u that cuz its works for me and i never every had no creative problems in my time with creative. and i had a nF2 chipset mobo with a creative card in it . if i did have problems it was the chipset but i had none while using a KT333,KT400 chipset aslo the nF2 and none using my NF3 chipset.

Though it can depends on the person config, like what works for others may not work for others. But i was mainy saying check every thing b4 u blame. it takes time to pen point the problem.

I Do know some Via chipsets like the KT166 or was it KT266 which hates creative cards. Thats ur opinion that u think creative cards drivers are buggy. and i not saying that ur dont have a opinion either.

i Dont see them as buggy since they work fine for me, i was saying check every thing b4 u blame it on the hardware. check ur vol settings and every thing. u cant just go darn it dont work, ITs ur fault sound card, without checking out every thing to see wheres the prolbems coming from.

i Fix computers also. but alteast i check out every thing b4 i blame it on something esle. the problem could be under ur noise but u refuse to look and flame others for trying to help u out calling them insults based on what they said. you cant know some one just but what they said in a post.

atm it sounds like user error to me but u refuse to take time to check it out right, and try every thing. Most like it cuz u dont have that thing plug. think about it.

Dvd audio wouldnt it u think since u got to plug in the normal CD one for ur cds to play sounds in ur comp that u may have to do the same for dvd audio to play. take a min to think about it. if them things was useless then why wouldnt the cd play with out that cord pluged in, on newer cd drives hmm.

this prove to me that u got ur info wrong cuz you do have to have that cord plug in or no sounds from ur cds will come out of ur speakers. dont go well ur dont know, cuz i do know. u need to recheck ur info again, cuz i had that same dvd drive that u have.

Remeber the Digital out on the surround center tends to be muted. check it out but dont come back and insult me either.

i not gonna sit here and come down to ur lv and toss flames back at u that not how i work.

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humeyboy

I didnt say i was better than you, so thats yu getting paranoid, i stated fact your info is wrong for most users hate creatives software and support, ive seen enough of these blame threads on creatives crap forums, that why i say fook them and use the pax normally.

The cable to roms is old news and not needed, you get digital audio through eide, the old roms all but a few did analouge sound so you could use cable to save some system resources use on old pcs, cant you read ?, its there for testing in factory its not meant to connect to the digital on your soundcard, so i suggest you go and read more instead suggesting to me how to connect or sort out creatives crap mess, thats easy to do, i simply remove beta driver and put back on the one in the pax kit im done with doom so i not need.

To say you know more than the tech sites who review the drives about that socket and the fact pioneer dont even point out it on the .pdf manula but do show you the analouge mnot make you see the light ?, to try say you wont get sound or such not suing these cables is dumb, i play cd/dvd and dvd audio from my pioneer and teac with no issues on pax without these dinosaure old cables that arent needed in modern pc with modern drives.

Take this up with the site in URL, i think you find they got lots test equipment we dont have axx to and know more than both us put together about this aspect.

Fact is im not bothered one bit, but think and google before you try tell another person they are doing somthing wrong, you may learn something.

You above post is nothing but a bag of poop, with you being aggressive towards my reply to your original post, so i advise you let it go and be more careful in future postings as you seem to lose it easy.

Im going to tell you something else the ZS isnt my fault so STFU ok, your begining to sound like a creative fan boy, 99% of the peeps here are trying pax as of the reason that creatives sh1t so why you even here but to talk poop.

I dont give 2 monkeys what you have for a PC, you really thing i aint wasted weeks intotal over years messing with live 5,1 then audigy2 (best of the lot had good software soon after release) not perfect but ok.
The ZS has been worste, i get better audio sound from my old live 5.1 on last drivers/apps and there old now, but at time it was new i didnt.

I again never said i was beter than anyone, but i know for a fact creative are lamers and many will never buy there hardware again, pity as its software/support that sucks.

And to end it WTF is my level, ahh ? you started the bad attitude post, i never asked for any help just put comments about new beta driver.