Am I crap out of luck?

[Key West]

What the hell...

My favorite soundcard of mine (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) rendered useless because I upgraded from XP 32bit to Win7 64bit. The company discontinued the product and has no drivers for it.

So just like that, my physically perfect card is suddenly useless? Is there a workaround? Extensive googling comes up with nothing.

 

[gorcorps]

Isn't that the biggest hazard of 64bit systems is driver support? That's why they tell you to research compatibility BEFORE you make the switch.

 

[Eli]

lol, it happens. You're probably SOL.

 

[Key West]

Or I can just install Win7 32bit... and lose 1 gig of ram (4 -> 3). It's an older PC and I don't play any games anyway.

There is no other advantage of 64bit vs 32bit besides more ram right?

 

[Rubycon]

It happens!
I had the original Turtle Beach Multisound and Maui (daughter MIDI card) that were lost after Win9x.
There's always alternates but they can be expensive if you have certain features. I loved my Yamaha SW1000XG as well but use an mu100 tone generator now.

 

[fatpat268]

On the bright side, if you've upgraded your mobo recently, the onboard audio probably isn't pure shit anymore.

If not, and you're upgrading an old computer, well then that sucks.

 

[fatpat268]

Or I can just install Win7 32bit... and lose 1 gig of ram (4 -> 3). It's an older PC and I don't play any games anyway.

There is no other advantage of 64bit vs 32bit besides more ram right?

That's assuming the card has Vista/7 drivers.

If they don't, then it doesn't matter if it's 64 or 32 bit

 

[darkswordsman17]

I was thinking that Win7 had a compatibility mode for drivers, so that you could run it in 32 bit mode?

 

[Eli]

Or I can just install Win7 32bit... and lose 1 gig of ram (4 -> 3). It's an older PC and I don't play any games anyway.

There is no other advantage of 64bit vs 32bit besides more ram right?

AFAIK, 32 bit systems have no problems addressing 4gb of ram.

 

[Sphexi]

Look for a new Auzuntech Bravura. Decent card.

 

[Eli]

Whoops, delayed DP.

 

[Key West]

Look for a new Auzuntech Bravura. Decent card.

Too expensive for someone who longer cares about computers. I'm eyeing the Diamond card at Amazon for $27 shipped...

 

[Itchrelief]

AFAIK, 32 bit systems have no problems addressing 4gb of ram.

Come on, you know what he's talking about. Although it shouldn't be quite as bad as 4->3 with an older system.

 

[BoomerD]

Happened to me when I upgraded to Vista. My Creative Soundblaster Live! soundcard went obsolete along with the front panel interface. Even though there were supposed to be some "work-around drivers," none of them worked for me.

Fortunately, as already alluded to above, my mobo's on-board sound is sufficient for my needs at this time.

 

[MovingTarget]

Ugh, I know how you feel. I lost a perfectly good tv tuner card when I switched to 7. Same feeling when I switched to XP with my Aureal Vortex 2 sound card. Hate to see perfectly good hardware go to waste...

 

[Rubycon]

Actually you would be crap out of luck if you bought a piece of junk called HD5970!

 

[FoBoT]

since you posted this in a social forum, and not the correct technical forum, i assume you are just ranting

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Actually you would be crap out of luck if you bought a piece of junk called ATI!

/me puts on the flamesuit

I had nothing with problems with both ATI cards I've owned (last was 9800xt) and could only get them working without issue with the omega drivers