Sound Blaster Audigy 2 isn't nearly as loud in Win 7

[icebeam]

my sound card is the SB audigy 2. Back in XP the drivers usually worked fine and produced the right 'loudness' of sound.

however in windows 7 the drivers that were automatically installed upon the OS installation do NOT play audio at the regular decibel levels. I tried going to downloading the new drivers form creative but they do not help. I have made sure all the volume levels are up but that is not it.

It seems to only produce sound at the 40%-60% levels compared to XP. i know this for a fact since i've done testing. it's annoying to have the volume up 100% all the time with it STILL not being loud.

I love windows 7 but I will be forced to go back to XP if I can not find a working driver for this.

any ideas? thanks.

 

[zigzag3143]

my sound card is the SB audigy 2. Back in XP the drivers usually worked fine and produced the right 'loudness' of sound.

however in windows 7 the drivers that were automatically installed upon the OS installation do NOT play audio at the regular decibel levels. I tried going to downloading the new drivers form creative but they do not help. I have made sure all the volume levels are up but that is not it.

It seems to only produce sound at the 40%-60% levels compared to XP. i know this for a fact since i've done testing. it's annoying to have the volume up 100% all the time with it STILL not being loud.

I love windows 7 but I will be forced to go back to XP if I can not find a working driver for this.

any ideas? thanks.

we might be able to help more if we knew what your hardware is.
32 bit or 64, which audigy driver, whcih version of win 7

Ken J

 

[icebeam]

Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
SB audigy 2 driver I currently have on is (Creative Worldwide Support)

The rest of my system specs are listed on my account view.

 

[zigzag3143]

Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
SB audigy 2 driver I currently have on is (Creative Worldwide Support)

The rest of my system specs are listed on my account view.

correct driver.

can you check device manager (type device manager in search) to verify that the driver is correctly installed and working.

If it is. then there is something in configuration that needs to be adjusted. can you post a screenshot of the control panel?

thanks

Ken J

 

[icebeam]

What control panel do you want a print screen of?

 

[icebeam]

Also I might have a zs card. I check the parts in my computer through Drivers & Downloads and it says I have a sound blaster 2 ZS card. How do I check which card I have? Sorry about this. Really thought I had a sound blaster 2.

 

[stormy13]

One thing to check if you haven't is here,

for whatever reason occasionally the levels will be set lower than the main volume.

Also as far as the driver goes, it doesn't matter whether you have an original Audigy (in its several variations), an Audigy 2/2ZS/2 value or an Audigy 4 (not the Pro); they all use the same driver.

Edit: Forgot one thing, while in the Windows settings also click on the Advanced tab and set it to "16 bit, 44100 Hz" if it isn't already.

 

[chev65]

my sound card is the SB audigy 2. Back in XP the drivers usually worked fine and produced the right 'loudness' of sound.

however in windows 7 the drivers that were automatically installed upon the OS installation do NOT play audio at the regular decibel levels. I tried going to downloading the new drivers form creative but they do not help. I have made sure all the volume levels are up but that is not it.

It seems to only produce sound at the 40%-60% levels compared to XP. i know this for a fact since i've done testing. it's annoying to have the volume up 100% all the time with it STILL not being loud.

I love windows 7 but I will be forced to go back to XP if I can not find a working driver for this.

any ideas? thanks.

The only ones that work at the Daniel K Audigy 2zs drivers. I have two systems with that card. The Auto install ones do not work at all,...the creative ones have terrible static noises,...this occured on both machines!

I had to google for the Daniel K Audigy 2 drivers, I could only find a torrent link but it was easy to find and download from there using Utorrent. I believe the drivers were made for Vista originally.

That is the only way your Audigy 2 or Audigy 2zs is going to work. His drivers worked perfectly for me on both machines.

You can get the torrent link here, just a link to the torrent, if you are lucky someone will be hosting it again. Creative Soundblaster Audigy Series Vista Drivers [by daniel k] Torrent Download - Torrent Reactor NET

If low sound volume is the only problem then also try doing this, set to DVD quality 48000Hz.

 

[stormy13]

chev65 that torrent is from last year (March of last year) and he has updated it a few times. This,

SB Audigy Series Support Pack 3.6 (11/09/2009) - Creative Labs

is the latest (and apparently the last) for the Audigy series.

 

[icebeam]

Thanks a ton the drivers above worked and gave me the higher sound output I had in xp! YOU ROCK!!!

 

[chev65]

Glad you have it up and running icebeam.

The so called Vista drivers I downloaded with that torrent have worked perfectly for me on two different machines running the Audigy 2zs on Windows 7 Ultimate so I figured those drivers might work for icebeam.

They also work with the other Audigy series cards 1-4's on Vista and Windows 7, but they still have all the bells whistles included. Some of the Audiophiles might appreciate that sort of thing.

I fear they are the same driver but with all the useful feature's taken out.

The Creative version is 60mb compared to mine with 700mb of useful features.

I've been using those drivers successfully for so long with Windows 7 that I never felt the need to look around for others. Not to mention the fact that Creative is the last place I look for support for the very reasons just mentioned. Creative tends to strip out feature's on older drivers and sometime's those features can come in handy.

What's interesting is that the Creative version of this driver does not work properly on either of my Audigy 2zs systems. Only the Daniel K version I linked too seem to work properly and had all the sound control feature's left in.

I'll post the link to the torrent version with all the bells and whistles since it works perfectly for me. http://www.torrentreactor.net/torre...aster-Audigy-Series-Vista-Drivers-by-daniel-k

Click where it says torrent if you want a working Windows 7 Creative Audigy driver for Audigy 1-4 with all the bells and whistles.

Also I have found that someone is hosting the SB Audigy Series Support Pack 3.6 (11/09/2009) Creative driver file on a much faster server, working in Windows 7 but without the bells and whistles.> SimpleCDN Mirror

So no need to wait around for Rapid Share's slowness.

 

[icebeam]

new problem please help

I now have another problem please check this link and help. http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/41253-sound-blaster-drivers-after-restart.html#post399249 it's related to this all.