Unofficial SB Audigy Series Software CD by Daniel_K

[Caleb]

Jiste jste na internetu zahledli, ze Creative si usil z ostudy kabat. Modder Daniel Kawakami upravil a sestavil ruzne verze ovladacu a aplikaci tak, aby plne fugovaly pod Windows Vista. Tedy neco, co se Creativu dosud nepodarilo - resp. nechtelo podarit. Toto je totiz jejich klasicka politika, s prichodem noveho OS pro starsi produkty nevydaji odpovidajici ovladace, blokuji moznost instalace software, jenz je potreba pro vyuziti vsech funkci zvukove karty, za ktere si lide radne zaplatili.
Na druhou stranu tento set driveru a aplikaci zpristupnuje i funkce, ktere nektere karty s originalnimi drivery pod WinXP nemely, DD-Live funkcionalita je ukradena z driveru karet Auzentech atd.
Pochopitelne sem nebudeme davat zadne odkazy ke stazeni, legalnost takto modifikovanych ovladacu ponechme stranou. Podotknu pouze, ze lze na internetu najit kompletni instalacni CD. Tyto drivery lze pouzit i s Windows Windows 2000 / XP / Server 2003.


Podporovane zvukove karty:

- Audigy series
- Audigy 2 series
- Audigy 2 Value
- Audigy 2 ZS series
- Audigy 2 ZS Notebook
- Audigy 4 series

A vypis softwaru, ktery lze nyni používat pod Windows Vista

- AudioConsole
- EAX Settings
- SoundFont Bank Manager
- Speaker Settings
- Volume Panel
- Diagnostics (32-bit only)
- DVD Audio Player (32-bit only, Audigy1 is not supported)
- Karaoke Player
- SB Performance Utility (Audigy2 ZS Notebook)
- Smart Recorder
- Wavestudio 7
- Vienna SoundFont Studio
- Media Toolbox
- Entertainment Center
- ALchemy (Audigy Edition)
- MediaSource 5
- Online Manual (PDF / CHM)
- MIDI Guide
- Drivers (working Advanced EQ presets)

Originalni diskuze: zde
Clanek v cestine (i kdyz ponekud zaujaty): zde

Reakce spolecnosti Creative:
preklad citovany z clanku na centrum.cz:
Byli jsme informováni o tom, že již nějakou dobu poskytuješ podporu vlastníkům zvukových karet Creative tím, že nabízíš neoficiální ovladače pro Windows Vista, které nabízejí více možností než standardní oficiální ovladače. To samé bylo zjištěno u ovladačů pro Windows XP. Zpřístupněním našich technologií a IP na zvukových kartách Creative, pro které nebyly původně určeny nebo zamýšleny, je z tvé strany v podstatě krádeží našeho zboží. Tím, že jsi umožňoval dotace za poskytování těchto ovladačů komunitě, ses obohacoval za něco, co ti nepatří. Pokud zvolíme strategii vývoje a poskytování služeb ze strany klienta k nějaké zvukové kartě, tak to bude obchodní rozhodnutí, které máme právo učinit pouze my.

Original: zde

[Zilla]

A tady je jeste odpoved primo od Daniela, kde popisuje incident a vsechno co mu predchazelo ze sveho pohledu:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/0..._k-who-fi.html

[Zilla]

A abychom zustali objektivni, pastnu sem rovnou i oficialni odpoved/vyjadreni jednoho z modu na Creative foru (mozna spatne nacasovanou, protoze vsichni vime, co udelal 1. April s nasim forem ):

We have read the strong feedback about Creative's forum post regarding driver development by Daniel_k and other outside parties. Creative's message posted on our behalf by our Company spokesperson tried to address our concern about the improper distribution of certain software which is the property of other companies. However, we did not make it as clear as we would have liked that we do support driver development by independent third parties. The huge task of developing driver updates to accommodate the many changes in the Vista operating system and the extensive testing required, including the lengthy Vista certification requirements for audio, makes it very difficult for Creative to develop updates for all past products. Outside developers have been very helpful to Creative and our customers by developing updates for many of our Sound Blaster products, and we do support and appreciate these efforts. This however does not extend to the unauthorized distribution of other companies' property. We hope to work out a mutually agreeable method for working with Daniel_k in supporting his efforts in driver development. Going forward, we are committed to doing a better job of working more closely with third parties to support their development for our products and our customers.

Osobne si myslim, ze tohle je klasicka ukazka znameho "too little too late"...

[Zilla]

A do tretice jedna uzasna perlicka, ktera jistojiste potesi vsechny majitele drahych modelu Creative zvukovek:

Ok, I see a lot of negativity here. Please lets cut the bad talk. We try our best to get working drivers and sure we might not be the best coders but god knows you're really only paying for the low end cards anyway, if people want the professional stuff they would be getting the true pro stuff, its a get what you pay for thing, so don't complain so much, we'll get the drivers working eventually

Tohle je prosim pekne reakce jednoho z programatoru ovladacu od Creative na stiznosti uzivatelu, ze nove beta drivery zpusobuji BSOD ve Viste...

[Zilla]

Tak situace se nam vyviji zajimave. Timhle postem asi zklamu vsechny majitele Audigy/2/ZS/4 karet, ale podle vseho to vypada, ze Daniel ma jednani Creative plne zuby a s jakymkoliv "vyvojem" dalsich moddovanych driveru pro tyto zvukovky konci.

Unfortunately, the situation did not change for us.

They did say an updated Audigy driver would eventually be released, but don't be optimistic about it (their priority is the launch of X-Fi 2).

What I can say for sure is the features I've enabled will not be made available in an official driver update.

Although I still have my doubts, they've said I would not be threatened if I provided patches instead of the actual binaries, because of licensed technologies built into them (Dolby/DTS).

While this could even be true, most of the disabled features are Creative's own technologies, which means they've disabled them on their own choice.

That's funny when people think you are an idiot.

They were after me and, on a chat session, they asked me what I'd like from them, as if I were expecting something.

They've promised me a free X-Fi 2, but I told them it was not necessary, because I was getting a couple of cards from other companies that contacted me.

Well, at least they are getting flammed all over the web and they are certainly mad about it and I could feel it while chatting with them. That is an enough reward for my hard work.

I'm not releasing a patch to enable DDL on any X-Fi neither Crystalizer for Audigy because, as they've pointed out to me, providing an alternative for their customers is good for them and increase their sales, specially when someone is doing it for free. Given the current situation, I cannot let this happen.


I just hope their competitor companies do something about it.

And I really hope people don't forget this.


Thank you very much for your support and your donations.


Best regards,

Daniel Kawakami



Below are the links for my drivers, beware where you download them from, I'll add CRC32, MD5 and SHA-1 hashes to all files:

SB Audigy series Vista Support Pack v2.15.0004EQ with Equalizer (02/24/200SB Live! series Vista Support Pack 2.10.0001A (03/07/200
Gameport support pack for Vista 32-bit (x86), updated on 02/01/2008
SB Audigy Value/SE/LS & Live! 24-bit Windows Vista Pack 1.04.0077B (02/06/200
SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio Windows Vista Pack 1.04.0078A (02/06/200


There are people asking my PayPal account (dkbox2000@hotmail.com), so I'll leave this link. Thanks again.

[jotvista]

Chcem sa len spytat ci ide aj na Audigy SE lebo nikde to nemozem zistit,lebo to nepisu.Dakujem za odpoved.

[shapet]

Chcem sa len spytat ci ide aj na Audigy SE lebo nikde to nemozem zistit,lebo to nepisu.Dakujem za odpoved.

Sound Blaster Audigy series Vista Support Pack - Feb 24 2008 by Daniel Kawakami
Unofficial Audigy Series Software CD for Win2000 / XP / Server 2003 / Vista 32/64-bit
Supports all Audigy card with a Hardware EMU10K2 DSP chipset (OEM / Retail models):

- Audigy (including ES, MP3+, X-Gamer and Platinum)
- Audigy 2 (including Value, Platinum and Platinum Ex)
- Audigy 2 ZS (including Platinum and Platinum Pro)
- Audigy 4 (including SE and Pro)
- Audigy 2 ZS Notebook (PCMCIA) - Uses software MIDI emulation that does not (currently) work in Vista.

Does NOT support the following OEM / Retail models:

- Host / software-based cards including Audigy LS / SE / Value, Audigy 2 SE, Live! 24-bit)
- any external Audigy soundcards

Jeste bych poznamenal, ze Danielovy drivery s Audigy nikdy nedokazaly provozovaz DDL, narozdil od X-Fi ( k tomu nestaci jednoduche odklicovani Instalatoru, jak to udelal Daniel pro X-Fi verzi). Vyvojari DDL byli lide z Creative, nikoliv z Auzentechu.

Soucasne drivery Creative Audigy jsou nove, umi (konecne) vsechno, co Daniel odemkl (pod Vistama zejmena), je k dispozici Alchemy bez poplatku. DDL neumi stale.

[jotvista]

Dik,ale nieco mi este stale neda lebo na zaciatku je napisane ze podporuje aj napr. audigy 2 value ,nie je to sice audigy SE ale value 2 je v tom druhom co nepodporuje SE tiez nepodporovane takze su to asi trochu rozdielne CD lebo pokial viem daniel vydal 2 CD REV1, REV2.DIK ZA VYSVETLENIE.

[shapet]

Opravdu Daniel vydal nekolik "unofficial" releases drivers for Audigy.
Bohuzel nikdy zadny z tech packu (odvolavajicich se vzdy na service pack No.1) nepodporoval Audigy SE. Ostatni Audigy karty jsou celkem poctive vyjmenovany a on je vsechny zkousel.

Ani nemohl, je to zcela jiny chipset, mimo zaber instalatoru, a koncil by znamou chybou installshieldu "runtime error -6003".

[shapet]

neobvykle francouzky, tentokrat Daniel Kawakami nadchl Francouze, po nich byl uz jen krucek na forum Creative, odkud sam odesel po skandalu s modnutymi drivery.

Ted uz v anglictine, od 13.1.2008 existuji drivery (bez proklinaneho aktivovani DDL+DTS connect) pro VSECHNY karty Creative ( X-Fi, Titanium, Audigy SE, USB 5.1, Auzentech karty) pro WIN XP, Vista 32 a 64 bit. a Windows 7 beta.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=135215

Popis instalace, zaludnosti a taky odkazy na Rapid ke stazeni.

Komu chybi ve Vistach moznost gameportu + MIDI,
pracoval Daniel i na tom.

Postup je rovnez i s obrazky na Foru Creative. Dalo by se to najit i bez pomoci, tolik odkazu nevede na zadny Creative tag.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&thread.id=13336

Vyzkousel jsem osobne na vsech kartach Creative, ktere doma mam (je jich sest i s Auzenem), funguje i Windows 7 beta s audio aplikacemi, ktere zatim stale pod Vistou nebezi (pluginy VST zejmena).

Creative poprve ve sve existenci zaragoval na OS, ktery jeste neni oficialni a vydal beta drivery pro Wistu 7.... Nefunguje rada funkci....Consola CS hlavne.
Co dodat.

Pozn.: Pro Audigy SE a PCIe X-Fi Audio ma Daniel svuj blog, kde drivery vystavujeke stazeni

http://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/2008/10/sb-audigy-valuesels-live-24-bit-to-x-fi.html

Nemusim ani pripominat, ze vsude jsou novejsi drivery, nez u Creative (u Titania karet od listopadu stale beta driver), nove OpenAL a funkcni console THX i pro dosud nepracujici konsoli u Auzen Preludia.

Pozn. 2: Pro Auzen X-Fi Forte (180 USD s dopravou) existuje prvni patch resici BSOD, sic ?! Skoda.

[shapet]

Drivery uz na puvodni adrese Rapidu nejsou.

Jsou tady:

http://rapidshare.com/files/192057240/XFI_SupportPack_1_0.exe

Crack to neni, dokonce neobsahuji ani unlock kody k DDL a DTS connect.
Daniel mel ani traffic, ktery ho uz unavoval.