audio drama with vista and my new system

[drednox]

got some real problems with audio and vista 64.

got a new system, evga 680i SLI motherboard, comes with realtek ac97 built-in audio. unfortunately, nvidia's support for it is bare minimal. there are drivers at realtek, but i cant get it all to function at full capacity.

the sound quality on it sucks. some crackling, and a weird noise it makes in my headphones which BTW work flawlessly in my old comp and win XP.

so i went and bought a turtle beach Riviera. figured an inexpensive solution its enough for a headset and some music and misc multimedia. slapped it in, lo and behold, it completely totally and utterly doesnt work. searched web, checked google, tutle beach site, various websites, various forums etc etc etc. but there are simply no available vista drivers for it anywhere, not even any beta 3rd party or anything. so anyone with this is screwed i guess as i am.


i have an old problematic soundblaster audigy 2 and was kinda hoping to ditch it and creative labs brand all togetehr as the creative cards and EAX tend to always cause drama and are way overpriced.


so what are my options here ? right now i'm runign the crappy realtek ac97 cause i am not willing to give any more money to creative cause they just dont make good stuff and havent for a long long time now, and turtle beach has no vista support. none.

i donoe WTF else can i do ?

 

[Rubycon]

How much ram?

I had crackle problems with 4GB and XP64 with an AN832SLI-Deluxe.

No problems with the 975 based PP5WDG2 and 4GB.

But since you have Vista that could be an issue. I refuse to use it with the silly signed driver requirement and having to hit F8 on every boot up. But that's just the start of problems.

 

[drednox]

yea, vista is the issue

i have 4 gigs corsair dominator 8500, so i doubt ram is the problem. likewise cpu or hd or video.

the only problem is the nonexistant to negligible at best driver support from sound card , sound / chip makers and microsoft alike.

but the question remains, is there anything else that i can do ? i mean WTF is everyone using vista condemmed to havign crappy audio or having to use creative labs products ?

 

[hardcandy2]

I would try this, uninstall the nvidia audio driver and make sure it is completely un-installed. Check Device manager in Safe mode to make sure ithe Nvidia driver is not showing up at all. Reboot.
Get the latest realtek driver from the realtek site, I believe they had one from last week posted. Install and use the Realtek HD Audio Manager to configure your speakers, etc.
I am running 32 bit Vista on a Gigabyte P65 MB and the sounds are very good in music, dvd playback, headphones, games, etc. Not crackling at all. Very good separation in surround and crisp sound overall. Try the following codecs.
Realtek High Definition Audio Codecs

 

[drednox]

did that, no difference.

specifically besides the poor audio quality i am having a problem with microphone volume, tried 3 different headsets and same thing. microphone volume is so low no one can hear it even with all my settings turned all the way up.

board i got is evga 680i SLI, runign on a single evga GForce 8800 GTX 768 megs vid card at the moment, but the video shouldnt affect the audio anyways.

so WTF ? i use same exact headsets that work flawlessly in my old comp under win xp, and have all these problems and the damn mic is unusable under win vista and realtek chipset.