Creative Soundblaster Audigy Series Vista Drivers [by daniel k]

See included capture.jpeg I AM NOT daniel_k. I have uploaded these to bittorrent because Creative in their infinite wisdom feel it is acceptable to lie, cheat, and effectively steal from customers. As soon as the 'omg, its our intillectual property' crap started being spouted by Creatives forum moderators, I felt bittorrent was the best place for these. You can also download them currently from filefront, but given Creatives stance on this, that may not be true for very long. If you are the owner of an Audigy series (excluding Live!), and use Windows Vista, then you will appreciate these drivers as they include alot of the functionality lost through Creatives greed in trying to get people to upgrade to the XFI range rather than just releasing working drivers with working software for the Audigy/Audigy2. The driver cd iso can also be used with Windows XP and includes some nice changes over the standard driver cd you would have got when you bought your Audigy. See the respective text for each for a full list of features. Thanks to daniel_k for proving Creative are cunts :) Please leave seeding for as long as you can.

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

pc8200 (2008-03-30)

Thank you to you joe and daniel_k for this contribution. We appreciate this.

joe_nobody (2008-03-30)

The thanks should be directed to daniel_k for his work on these drivers not myself. I'm simply passing them along via TPB and isoHunt as a fuck you to Creative Labs. Respect to all who keeping them seeded.

tange1 (2008-03-31)

@masterfaster: Whats the difference between the 2 links you sent? Which is needed when or do you need both?

Colonel Amon Goeth (2008-03-31)

Are Vista 64 drivers included?

Colonel Amon Goeth (2008-03-31)

lmao. The links in the Creative forum work now. Looks like Creative caved in to all the bad media and community outrage. The problem is that Daniel has enabled features that Creative deliberately disabled in an effort to get customers to upgrade from Audigy to XFi. Can't blame them really considering there's not much incentive to upgrade. It's not like the graphics cards which require upgrading every 2 years in order to play games.

joe_nobody (2008-03-31)

There are 2 links already posted with full descriptions of both the iso and the vista driver pack, and both are also included in this torrent, it would take 30 seconds to take a look at either.
The iso is for XP and Vista, and its so big because its a modified driver cd (the retail cd's are not any smaller). It includes a full host of drivers and all the associated software. The Vista driver pack is for those that dont want or need the driver cd and are specific to Vista. It is so small because it does not have all the software available that is available on the cd. Not difficult to figure out really, even without reading the file descriptions.

k3ik0 (2008-03-31)

DL'ing now, seeding 'till the cows come home... I have an X-Fi now, the next audiocard I buy will NOT be from Creative.

Colonel Amon Goeth (2008-04-02)

Creative have never written good drivers at least since the Live days. I've even had trouble with their speaker products and had already vowed never to buy Creative speakers again. I don't know of any other company that so blatently and shamelessly screws the customers for every penny they can get. As Creative goes under perhaps Asus or Nvidia can buy their IP and do something with it.

tbq (2008-04-02)

Thanks for the drivers. I'll keep seeding this for a few months. Creative used to have the best sound cards but they've completely dropped the ball in the software department. I'm not planning to buy another Creative sound card in the foreseeable future.
I?ll still support the company solely because they have the best portable media players on the market with their Zen line of mp3 players.

markoriginal (2008-04-03)

Danke.
??????? daniel_k .
Creativ ????? ???? ?????.

hiphopanonymous (2008-04-11)

LOL! Thank you seeders! The HTTP links for these files were going sooo slooooow. Speed for this torrent averaged 1600kbps for me!!
Thank you daniel_k!
And yes, thank you joe_nobody for the torrent.

chavxxx (2008-04-23)

Creative Sound cards are only good for gaming purposes only... M-Audio sound cards are the best!!!

avata124 (2008-05-03)

Thanks!!!! They did the same thing with win98 to win2000 with the SBLive! cards too.. (thankfully the kxproject.org took care of that one back then!)

Nillaj (2008-06-22)

I'm mildly confused...should I be using the ISO or the exe?
The txt files seem to indicate the exe is newer then the iso.

taholesobsesh (2008-07-05)

pls seed..............

pappe (2008-08-22)

Thanks for that super soundfont set 28MBGM.sf2.

delukard7 (2008-09-29)

to bad creative droped the ball with this.
Thank's for the drivers.
I haven't used them and i found out about this today.
TBH i hope this works.
Fucking creative, really, fuck them.

delukard7 (2008-10-12)

I have a question.
Do these drivers work with an AUDIGY2 VALUE and xp64? because when i ran the installer it says that the OS is not supported, or the hardware is not supported.
It also has 2 installers, wich one is the one that i have to use?. any help is apreciated!

Morgurthion (2008-10-18)

Does these work with the X-FI Xtreme Audio card? As I've understod it, they use the older Audigy-chipset... otherwise, if anyone would upload them, I'd really appreciate it!

anonimul (2009-01-02)

If you don't know which drivers to install from this pack, read this guide:

It tells you which setup to run for each sound card model.

tropicvibe (2009-01-13)

Thank you Joe and thanks to Daniel for such fine work. Those crack heads at Creative are gonna get what they deserve. I probably should've moved on to another card but I cherish this one and as a musician, is indispensable in my midi workstation. I hear midi and soundfont support is also going down the drain and guys like me with limited resources don't have the dough to buy some fancy card that may or may not give us total midi functionality and control. Hugs to you both,

Liquidizer38 (2009-04-22)

I read about Creative busting Daniel's balls because of how he was making better creative software than they were. lmao!! My advice to Creative is get off your ass's and do it your self. There should be ISO files on Creative's web sight to allow people to download updated drivers and software for their damn cards. I appreciate what Daniel did. Cudos man!!
I can make some ISO's and upload them to you guys. If anyone needs it, I have the original installation CD's of ::
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (build 5.12.04.0445) and
Sound Blaster LIVE! 24-bit (build 5.12.1.315).
These of course will the original CD's that came with my cards. I know how it is wishing you had the original disk UNALTERED in any way, but can't get the fuckin' things from Creative.

Kchekrik (2009-12-08)

Does these drivers also work for Auzentech Prelude, which uses the X-fi chip. Drivers are fucked for win7 there too :S