Sound Cards **That WORK**

iPhillip

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Hi,

I'm after a list of Sound cards that people absolutely know work in Windows 7 (beta build 7000) and have drivers that support them which also are compatible with Windows 7.

Thanks for any support/help.

List of Sound Cards and Drivers that work:
-Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 (Drivers Located here)
-M-Audio's Delta 1010 LT soundcard with drivers made for Vista SP1, with Windows 7's compatibility program (All Delta series may work with Vista SP1)
-Asus Xonar D2 sound card works, Recording features may not work in some with some driver software.
-Sound blaster Audigy 2 SE works with the drivers from windows update
-Soundblaster live, only with kxproject drivers. WARNING: The windows update drivers give terrible sound.
 
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Creative Soundblaster Audigy 4 for starters
 

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^Update^

And any information is valuable.
 

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nvidia geforce 9400 works fine with out of box drivers

that is all

Msongs
 

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onboard hd
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My Asus Xonar D2 sound card works but none of the recording features are usable in my driver software any longer.
 
Sound blaster Audigy 2 SE works with the drivers from windows update.
 

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Cheers guys, its been updated.
 

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Too old to mention.
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256mb Radeon 9600pro
Sound Card
Inbuilt C-media Realtek AC-97
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Dual Monitors - Dell 19" and a Hp Pavilion 19"
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All Conexant
 

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Conexant CX20549
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Home-built, 5 years ago.
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Windows XP and Windows 7
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2GHz Intel Celeron
Motherboard
Too old to mention.
Memory
1.5gb
Graphics Card(s)
256mb Radeon 9600pro
Sound Card
Inbuilt C-media Realtek AC-97
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Dual Monitors - Dell 19" and a Hp Pavilion 19"
Screen Resolution
1440 by 900 & 1280 by 1024
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250gb + 40gb. Seagate.
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Old, unamable
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PC Direct!
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512kbps
This thread should be stickied...because of Soundcard probs I'm using W7 less & less...
 

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Old Soundblaster live! with LiveDrive 2 works but only with the kxproject drivers, the win update drivers give terrible sound.
 

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Thanks for the information and input, More information is welcome :)

The list has been updated.
 

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256mb Radeon 9600pro
Sound Card
Inbuilt C-media Realtek AC-97
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HT Omega Striker 7.1 works on my install of Windows 7
 

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Do you know what drivers your running on 7 with the card?
 

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2GHz Intel Celeron
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Too old to mention.
Memory
1.5gb
Graphics Card(s)
256mb Radeon 9600pro
Sound Card
Inbuilt C-media Realtek AC-97
Monitor(s) Displays
Dual Monitors - Dell 19" and a Hp Pavilion 19"
Screen Resolution
1440 by 900 & 1280 by 1024
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250gb + 40gb. Seagate.
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Old, unamable
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PC Direct!
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My drivers are CM18770 and driver version 6.12.8.1730 if that helps used the 32/64 bit driver download of the web site, 32 bit Vista install.
 

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E8400 Lapped
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P5Q Pro Turbo Asus
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Kingston 4 gig
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2=ATI 5670Video Crossfire / HVR2250 TV Tuner Card
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HDMI sound
Monitor(s) Displays
Sony 46"
Screen Resolution
1280x720
Hard Drives
1 WD 160gig YS, 1 Black Edition 320gig and one 250gig WD YS Model plus external Caviar Black 640gig Drives
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Antec 550 Modular
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Antec Custom 180B
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X-1283 Lapped Artic Silver 5
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Wave Combo Logitech
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Logitech LX-8
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5mb down 768 up
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Custom side fan in case, plus moved middle lower fan to the front of hard drives , also installed a second intake fan in lower two optical drive slots. Rear fans are controlled by Fan mate controllers. temps inside case are monitored by probe and temps coming out the top exhaust are also monitored, temps as of right now 20c inside and 22.7 out the exhaust. Front intake fans are controlled by Asu
Guys, please also see regarding "CMI9880 (Azalia) codec (ASUS P5GD2-X mb)":
http://birbilis.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2335BBEF59B92C54!152.entry
There seems to be the same issue with W7 as was for Vista. Now MS calls this NVIDIA Sound Card (hope they fixed this by now).

Update: checkout my blog posting above, I just put a new link to a driver that just started to work for me (had installed it for sometime now and it now plays sound without obvious link to which Win7 update caused the fix - had installed Windows Live Essentials which also installs DirectX runtime and other stuff which may be related to why the driver now works, but not sure)
 
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Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty installed with no problems using the apps from the installation CD, and the latest driver for Vista x64 from Creative's Site.
I had to run the installer for the drivers with Vista compatibility mode though, but not with the rest of the apps on the CD.

Haven't installed Alchemy yet, and the driver work perfectly fine with games and apps.

Both 2.0/2.1 and 5.1 modes work for me (using analog out), but you need to change the setting on both the Windows Sound Control Panel and in Creative's Console, else it will work in whatever mode you left it on the Windows Sound CP.

I'm quite sure all X-Fi cards will work.
 

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Creative X-Fi Xtremegamer Fatal1ty Pro
Guys, please also see regarding "CMI9880 (Azalia) codec (ASUS P5GD2-X mb)":
http://birbilis.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2335BBEF59B92C54!152.entry
There seems to be the same issue with W7 as was for Vista (had found a driver that worked after lots of searching, but the links to it are now broken). Now MS calls this NVIDIA Sound Card (obviously cause they bought-off ASUS). If no-one can find that driver I can look at my backup in case I can find it

hello fellow MVP and welcome...

the reason is because cmedia has changed their domain...
C-Media Electronics | Total PC Audio Solutions

i cant be certain if they still hold the drivers but you should check there...

also a Cmedia (will check the model later) and almost any realtek sound card is compatible OOB and can be enhanced with realtek drivers (had the best luck) or the OEM manufacturer....
 

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love my wacom pen and pressure sensitivity...
wished it worked in 7, SUSE for that matter though
Guys, please also see regarding "CMI9880 (Azalia) codec (ASUS P5GD2-X mb)":
http://birbilis.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2335BBEF59B92C54!152.entry
There seems to be the same issue with W7 as was for Vista (had found a driver that worked after lots of searching, but the links to it are now broken). Now MS calls this NVIDIA Sound Card (obviously cause they bought-off ASUS). If no-one can find that driver I can look at my backup in case I can find it


I have the audio chip on mine pc anyway you can try and find that driver for me please I've looked everywhere online, I've tried the CD my PC came with in different Compatibility modes with no luck it says the installetion failed I have also tried the realtek HD audio drivers with no luck

I am running W7 build 7068.winmain.090321-1322 (x64 edition)
 

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nvidia 8200M
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