NightShade737
08-10-2003, 11:43 AM
Creative have basically dropped the Audigy 1 now, but you can upgrade your Auidgy 1 to an Audigy 2 just by changing the drivers, and this gives you 64 Hardware 3D Sound channels rather than the original Audigys 32 Channels, you also get improved audio quality and better EAX support and sound.
To do this, there are a few simple steps, and as some of them are a little hazy, I will re-write it.
You need to uninstall your original Audigy drivers first before we start though.
Firstly, download -
The Creative Compatability Patch
http://members.aol.com/dvdking2001/Pub/ctcomp.exe
(130kb)
The Latest Drivers
http://files.creative.com/Drivers/Others/2164/AUD2DRVLB030425.exe
or find the latest drivers on this page - http://asia.creative.com/support/drivers/welcome.asp?region=2&LangID=1033&OS=10&prod=118&Select=Get+Files&Submit=Get+Files&x=27&y=11
(6.88MB)
The Creative Audigy 2 Driver CD
http://users2.ev1.net/~dallasstar/a2/sb_install_multilang.rar
(119MB)
The first file is a patch which makes the drivers work on a Sound Blaster live and a SB Audigy 1.
First thing you now do is to extract the huge file to a folder on your PC (it is actually the entire driver CD),
Then extract the driver pack (the second file) to a folder on your hard drive. You need WinRAR 3 to do this - (http://www.rarlabs.com)
Now run the first file (ctcomp) and point it to the "Drivers\WIN2K_XP" folder in the folder of the driver pack that you extracted, and it should patch the files (warning is that it doesn't tell you if it failed, which isn't very useful).
Now to install the drivers, just open the folder where you extracted the driver pack, then go into the folder named "Drivers", and double click the icon named "CTZAPXX" and just click OK when that comes up, and it will install the Audigy 2 drivers.
Do NOT try and run the setup program from the driver CD as it will not work, because it will be searching for an Audigy card on your system, which, it will not find.
To install the software manually, just open the "Audio" folder from the driver disc, and then open up each sub directory in that folder and run the setup file in each of the folders, but do NOT run anything in the "Drivers" sub directory in the "Audio" folder, just ignore it.
And, that is pretty much it, it takes alot less time than it looks like :P
Note, you do not actually need the Audigy 2 driver disc at all unless you need to change the output frequency of the card, or want any of the programs off it.
Hope that helps anyone with an Audigy or Sound Blaster Live!.
NS
To do this, there are a few simple steps, and as some of them are a little hazy, I will re-write it.
You need to uninstall your original Audigy drivers first before we start though.
Firstly, download -
The Creative Compatability Patch
http://members.aol.com/dvdking2001/Pub/ctcomp.exe
(130kb)
The Latest Drivers
http://files.creative.com/Drivers/Others/2164/AUD2DRVLB030425.exe
or find the latest drivers on this page - http://asia.creative.com/support/drivers/welcome.asp?region=2&LangID=1033&OS=10&prod=118&Select=Get+Files&Submit=Get+Files&x=27&y=11
(6.88MB)
The Creative Audigy 2 Driver CD
http://users2.ev1.net/~dallasstar/a2/sb_install_multilang.rar
(119MB)
The first file is a patch which makes the drivers work on a Sound Blaster live and a SB Audigy 1.
First thing you now do is to extract the huge file to a folder on your PC (it is actually the entire driver CD),
Then extract the driver pack (the second file) to a folder on your hard drive. You need WinRAR 3 to do this - (http://www.rarlabs.com)
Now run the first file (ctcomp) and point it to the "Drivers\WIN2K_XP" folder in the folder of the driver pack that you extracted, and it should patch the files (warning is that it doesn't tell you if it failed, which isn't very useful).
Now to install the drivers, just open the folder where you extracted the driver pack, then go into the folder named "Drivers", and double click the icon named "CTZAPXX" and just click OK when that comes up, and it will install the Audigy 2 drivers.
Do NOT try and run the setup program from the driver CD as it will not work, because it will be searching for an Audigy card on your system, which, it will not find.
To install the software manually, just open the "Audio" folder from the driver disc, and then open up each sub directory in that folder and run the setup file in each of the folders, but do NOT run anything in the "Drivers" sub directory in the "Audio" folder, just ignore it.
And, that is pretty much it, it takes alot less time than it looks like :P
Note, you do not actually need the Audigy 2 driver disc at all unless you need to change the output frequency of the card, or want any of the programs off it.
Hope that helps anyone with an Audigy or Sound Blaster Live!.
NS