I have just installed Vista RC2 on a separate partition on my Compaq Presario
8000 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz) with a Creative SB Audigy sound card. My
problem is when I play MP3 or WMA music the sound quality is really bad and
sometimes it seems like it gets worse the longer I play! Sounds like a bad
codec or something. I have no problems at all when use XP.

Any clue?

Ulf

/Ulf/ said:

> I have just installed Vista RC2 on a separate partition on my Compaq Presario
> 8000 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz) with a Creative SB Audigy sound card. My
> problem is when I play MP3 or WMA music the sound quality is really bad and
> sometimes it seems like it gets worse the longer I play! Sounds like a bad
> codec or something. I have no problems at all when use XP.

Vista handles audio differently than its predecessors. Look here for a
beta driver for your card, but don't expect much until after Vista is
released...

http://ask.americas.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=ww_english_add,U={B8F60310-DA4F-11D3-94F4-00500463020E},Company={CEAE216D-8719-4C00-AC9F-03BC258F7B70},d=1130251443648,VARSET=ws:http://us.creative.com,case=14186

I have a similar Audigy card. Actually the SE version. The only thing that
does not work is the microphone I have attached. I did happen to play with
my Sound Output settings and found that putting that card on the 16-bit,
44100KHz (CD Quality) setting helps remove the sound problem. Any higher
than that and my speakers start sounding like I am listening to the car
radio going out of a stations quality range.

"Ulf" <Ulf@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:92D16A14-179B-418D-B935-B8CDC72EF67F@microsoft.com...
>I have just installed Vista RC2 on a separate partition on my Compaq
>Presario
> 8000 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz) with a Creative SB Audigy sound card. My
> problem is when I play MP3 or WMA music the sound quality is really bad
> and
> sometimes it seems like it gets worse the longer I play! Sounds like a bad
> codec or something. I have no problems at all when use XP.
>
> Any clue?
>
> Ulf

Thanks. I actually found a beta driver for Vista on Creative's home page and
installed it. It seems like this solved the problem. So far I have just tried
to play musice, no recording. Strange, with the old driver sound was OK for
half a minute or so, but then started to sound really bad and eventually it
stopped completely.

"dev" wrote:

> /Ulf/ said:
>
> > I have just installed Vista RC2 on a separate partition on my Compaq Presario
> > 8000 (Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz) with a Creative SB Audigy sound card. My
> > problem is when I play MP3 or WMA music the sound quality is really bad and
> > sometimes it seems like it gets worse the longer I play! Sounds like a bad
> > codec or something. I have no problems at all when use XP.
>
> Vista handles audio differently than its predecessors. Look here for a
> beta driver for your card, but don't expect much until after Vista is
> released...
>
> http://ask.americas.creative.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,Kb=ww_english_add,U={B8F60310-DA4F-11D3-94F4-00500463020E},Company={CEAE216D-8719-4C00-AC9F-03BC258F7B70},d=1130251443648,VARSET=ws:http://us.creative.com,case=14186
>