are there any aureal drivers for winXP

[tokamak]

i'm about to upgrade from 98SE but i know that aureal is no more. should i just go with whatever XP installs for my sound card (vortex2) ?

 

[Adul]

windows XP has native support for aureal. and it works just fine for most part.

 

[Daovonnaex]

<< windows XP has native support for aureal. and it works just fine for most part. >>

I doubt it. I had an Aureal SQ2500, and it would not function when I upgraded to Windows 2000. Seeing as how Windows XP is very similar to Windows 2000, I don't think it'll work.

 

[sandorski]

Go here and look through the forums. There are a number of things to try to get an Aureal based card to work.

I just went through trying to get a SQ2500 working in WinXP(see Sparepartsenstein). It works for the most part, but the sound drops out in AoE2 and doesn't work again until the system gets rebooted. I'm seriously thinking of picking up the Hercules GTXP that I always wanted and moving my Audigy from Wowza to Sparepartsenstein.

 

[Adul]

<<

<< windows XP has native support for aureal. and it works just fine for most part. >>

I doubt it. I had an Aureal SQ2500, and it would not function when I upgraded to Windows 2000. Seeing as how Windows XP is very similar to Windows 2000, I don't think it'll work. >>

it does work. MS wrote a driver for it, it doesnt work perfectly but it does work. I used a vortex 1 card in my friends system.

 

[puffpio]

Here's the solution w/ aureal and WinXP (what I did to get it working)

Install WinXP w/o the sound card
(reason: the first time u load windows it willl play the opening noise and other noises..all of which has the potential to lock up the computer..for mine it would lock up and reboot automatically)

Install WCPRSET and WPCREDIT

Install sound card, boot into windows it autodetects and loads drivers

wun wpcredit and find out which pci device it is

go into wpcset and select taht device, and change the register 40 into FF instead of the 80 is currently is (or was it change 80 into FF instead of the 40 it already was can't remember)

reboot done

AND DONT install the updated aureal drivers on windowsupdate, they just removed features cuz they couldn't figure out how to fix the bugs.

You won't have 4 speaker out but you can dl ac97control do enable it, but you will have to enable it everytime and all it does is link front and rear outputs together w/ independent volumes, it's not 4 individual channels (as witnessed by trying to play a surround sound dvd)

Also, you will not have a3d support, you will have to go to an older win2k driver and then forcefully isntall it into winxp (it's complicated)

 

[fendel]

My Vortex2 card has worked just fine for months in Windows XP with the native support.

I have had sound disappear a couple of times--and then it works normally on reboot--but I have no idea whether that's specifically an Aureal issue, or just a general glitch.