Vista and sound drivers problem...Please save me!!!

[hypeMarked]

I have been using Vista for ~6 months now and I don't have any problem with it except for sound driver. So I have an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum, and it just doesn't work correctly. So I'm using Ventrilo, WoW, music player, etc..., the problem is, I can only either have sound in Vent or WoW/music player/etc... I know it's not vent because I try to use other sound enabled application together and they never seems to work together. This no DirectSound issue in Vista is killing me. So I tried to install Alchemy, and boom!!!, I notice a process "audiodg.exe" takes up 100% of CPU resource.

Is there anything sound card out there that's good with Vista? or Anything I can do to make Vista's sound usable? Thanks,

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: hypeMarked
I have been using Vista for ~6 months now and I don't have any problem with it except for sound driver. So I have an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum, and it just doesn't work correctly. So I'm using Ventrilo, WoW, music player, etc..., the problem is, I can only either have sound in Vent or WoW/music player/etc... I know it's not vent because I try to use other sound enabled application together and they never seems to work together. This no DirectSound issue in Vista is killing me. So I tried to install Alchemy, and boom!!!, I notice a process "audiodg.exe" takes up 100% of CPU resource.

Is there anything sound card out there that's good with Vista? or Anything I can do to make Vista's sound usable? Thanks,

Creative creates the *worst* Vista drivers. The drivers for their flagship X-Fi are marginal at best, and the audigy is just the redheaded stepchild at this point.

Now, I dont have any of those problems with my X-fi, but nothing has worked more stable and perfect than good ol onboard sound.