Sound Card for Vista

I posted this a while back but it never showed up, so here I go again.
A while back someone posted here saying that Creative Audigy 4 sound card
worked <giving good sound> with Vista. My system is old and not worth
investing a great deal for a high end sound card. There are several
versions of the Creative Audigy 4 Sound card with prices ranging from $30-
$275. What I would like to know is which of the Audigy 4 cards work with
Vista.

Thank you

Check the Creative web site or call their support line.

"Jerry" <jhuffman@triad.rr.com> wrote in message
news:O8qac4fxHHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I posted this a while back but it never showed up, so here I go again.
> A while back someone posted here saying that Creative Audigy 4 sound card
> worked <giving good sound> with Vista. My system is old and not worth
> investing a great deal for a high end sound card. There are several
> versions of the Creative Audigy 4 Sound card with prices ranging from $30-
> $275. What I would like to know is which of the Audigy 4 cards work with
> Vista.
>
> Thank you
>
>
>

yeah go for audigy 4 i guess.


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Have you run the Windows Upgrade Advisor? You may find many other components
of your system that will require replacement. If your system is "that old"
I would recommend that you don't upgrade to Vista unless you have a new
piece of hardware that requires it, which is highly unlikely.
"Jerry" <jhuffman@triad.rr.com> wrote in message
news:O8qac4fxHHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I posted this a while back but it never showed up, so here I go again.
> A while back someone posted here saying that Creative Audigy 4 sound card
> worked <giving good sound> with Vista. My system is old and not worth
> investing a great deal for a high end sound card. There are several
> versions of the Creative Audigy 4 Sound card with prices ranging from $30-
> $275. What I would like to know is which of the Audigy 4 cards work with
> Vista.
>
> Thank you
>
>
>

"Jerry" <jhuffman@triad.rr.com> wrote in message
news:O8qac4fxHHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I posted this a while back but it never showed up, so here I go again.
> A while back someone posted here saying that Creative Audigy 4 sound card
> worked <giving good sound> with Vista. My system is old and not worth
> investing a great deal for a high end sound card. There are several
> versions of the Creative Audigy 4 Sound card with prices ranging from $30-
> $275. What I would like to know is which of the Audigy 4 cards work with
> Vista.

The cheapest will probably be fine, you'll probably find the more expensive
ones would be likely to have more issues as they require more driver
features.

I use an Audigy 2 ZS without issues here, you might also want to look at the
X-Fi, which is Creative's newest card, and judging on Creative's past
history will probably have the best support going forward.

--
Paul Smith,
Yeovil, UK.
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
http://www.windowsresource.net/

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Thanks for the reply and I will do some more looking. LOL calling Creative
is real experience. I have the live 5! now but as soon as I told them I had
NOT installed one of their cards within the last year, they hung up. I
guess they have the sales they can handle.

"Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
news:8A51BC49-9566-4370-82AB-5B76F65B47A4@microsoft.com...
> "Jerry" <jhuffman@triad.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:O8qac4fxHHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>I posted this a while back but it never showed up, so here I go again.
>> A while back someone posted here saying that Creative Audigy 4 sound card
>> worked <giving good sound> with Vista. My system is old and not worth
>> investing a great deal for a high end sound card. There are several
>> versions of the Creative Audigy 4 Sound card with prices ranging from
>> $30- $275. What I would like to know is which of the Audigy 4 cards work
>> with Vista.
>
> The cheapest will probably be fine, you'll probably find the more
> expensive ones would be likely to have more issues as they require more
> driver features.
>
> I use an Audigy 2 ZS without issues here, you might also want to look at
> the X-Fi, which is Creative's newest card, and judging on Creative's past
> history will probably have the best support going forward.
>
> --
> Paul Smith,
> Yeovil, UK.
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
> http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>
> *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
>
>

I'm using the inexpensive Audigy SE (about $30 at Office Depot), which
works fine for me with the latest driver and software downloaded from here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2vqgvg

Daze
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Jerry wrote:
> Thanks for the reply and I will do some more looking. LOL calling Creative
> is real experience. I have the live 5! now but as soon as I told them I had
> NOT installed one of their cards within the last year, they hung up. I
> guess they have the sales they can handle.
>
> "Paul Smith" <Paul@nospam.windowsresource.net> wrote in message
> news:8A51BC49-9566-4370-82AB-5B76F65B47A4@microsoft.com...
>> "Jerry" <jhuffman@triad.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:O8qac4fxHHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> I posted this a while back but it never showed up, so here I go again.
>>> A while back someone posted here saying that Creative Audigy 4 sound card
>>> worked <giving good sound> with Vista. My system is old and not worth
>>> investing a great deal for a high end sound card. There are several
>>> versions of the Creative Audigy 4 Sound card with prices ranging from
>>> $30- $275. What I would like to know is which of the Audigy 4 cards work
>>> with Vista.
>> The cheapest will probably be fine, you'll probably find the more
>> expensive ones would be likely to have more issues as they require more
>> driver features.
>>
>> I use an Audigy 2 ZS without issues here, you might also want to look at
>> the X-Fi, which is Creative's newest card, and judging on Creative's past
>> history will probably have the best support going forward.
>>
>> --
>> Paul Smith,
>> Yeovil, UK.
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User.
>> http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/
>> http://www.windowsresource.net/
>>
>> *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail*
>>
>>
>
>

Avoid the XFI with vista. Headaches!


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gizbug

What X-Fi headaches? Other than the SPDIF output being flakey, I don't have any
problems.

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GO BEARS!


"gizbug" <gizbug.2uio84@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> Avoid the XFI with vista. Headaches!
>
>
> --
> gizbug

Working ok here too.



"Cal Bear '66" <xxx@xxx.org> wrote in message
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> What X-Fi headaches? Other than the SPDIF output being flakey, I don't
> have any problems.
>
> --
> I Bleed Blue and Gold
> GO BEARS!
>
>
> "gizbug" <gizbug.2uio84@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
> news:gizbug.2uio84@no-mx.forums.net...
>>
>> Avoid the XFI with vista. Headaches!
>>
>>
>> --
>> gizbug
>
>