HowTo: Add MS's Vista Enhancements to SB Audigy 2 ZS
Habe etwas interessantes im Creative-Forum gefunden. und das beste: Es funktioniert wirklich (Audigy 2ZS mit Vista 32bit, SP1 RC. Ich verwende selbst den Beta-Treiber, der eigentlich für die X-Fi ist: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Vista Driver 2.15.0004 (5 Nov 07))
After reading through several newsgroups over the net, I realizes Microsoft has added "Enhancements" to the Audio interface in Vista that are available in the standard UAA drivers. These enhancements allow highly advanced Bass Management Control, Speaker Fill (similar to CMSS, but MS sounds better), Room Correction and Loudness Equalization.
Microsoft also makes these features available to everyone coding there own drivers and actually recommends that they are available to end users. Creative thought otherwise
You can actually do a small edit in the driver INF file, reinstall the driver and voila: the Enhancements are available and working. Creative has coded the support in the drivers, but for some reason decided to block installation at last minute:
1. Unpack the latest Vista drivers with e.g. 7-Zip (I used the latest STABLE ones)
2. Go to the Drivers \ WDM Subfolder
3. Open the "wdma_emu.inf" file in Notepad
4. Add a semicolon ";" in front of the two "Catalog...=..." entries (Otherwise Windows will read the digital signature, see that the file was edited and refuse to install it)
5. Search for the "[Live2K.Interface.Topology]" section
6. Add "MSSysFX.AddReg" to the "AddReg=..." entry. It should then look like this: AddReg=Live2K.Interface.Topo.AddReg, CTSysFx.AddReg, OEMSettingsOverride_Speaker.AddReg, MSSysFx.AddReg
7. Save the file
8. Reinstall the drivers (Preferably using the Setup.exe located in the DRIVERS folder).
Wie hier schon beschrieben finden sich dann in den Eigenschaften zur Soundeinstellungen der Soundkarte ein neuer Reiter Erweiterungen mit den oben genannten Features
(from: http://forums.creative.com/creative...essage.id=22938&view=by_date_ascending&page=2)
Gruß
-z.
Habe etwas interessantes im Creative-Forum gefunden. und das beste: Es funktioniert wirklich (Audigy 2ZS mit Vista 32bit, SP1 RC. Ich verwende selbst den Beta-Treiber, der eigentlich für die X-Fi ist: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Vista Driver 2.15.0004 (5 Nov 07))
After reading through several newsgroups over the net, I realizes Microsoft has added "Enhancements" to the Audio interface in Vista that are available in the standard UAA drivers. These enhancements allow highly advanced Bass Management Control, Speaker Fill (similar to CMSS, but MS sounds better), Room Correction and Loudness Equalization.
Microsoft also makes these features available to everyone coding there own drivers and actually recommends that they are available to end users. Creative thought otherwise
You can actually do a small edit in the driver INF file, reinstall the driver and voila: the Enhancements are available and working. Creative has coded the support in the drivers, but for some reason decided to block installation at last minute:
1. Unpack the latest Vista drivers with e.g. 7-Zip (I used the latest STABLE ones)
2. Go to the Drivers \ WDM Subfolder
3. Open the "wdma_emu.inf" file in Notepad
4. Add a semicolon ";" in front of the two "Catalog...=..." entries (Otherwise Windows will read the digital signature, see that the file was edited and refuse to install it)
5. Search for the "[Live2K.Interface.Topology]" section
6. Add "MSSysFX.AddReg" to the "AddReg=..." entry. It should then look like this: AddReg=Live2K.Interface.Topo.AddReg, CTSysFx.AddReg, OEMSettingsOverride_Speaker.AddReg, MSSysFx.AddReg
7. Save the file
8. Reinstall the drivers (Preferably using the Setup.exe located in the DRIVERS folder).
Wie hier schon beschrieben finden sich dann in den Eigenschaften zur Soundeinstellungen der Soundkarte ein neuer Reiter Erweiterungen mit den oben genannten Features
(from: http://forums.creative.com/creative...essage.id=22938&view=by_date_ascending&page=2)
Gruß
-z.
