My Soundblaster is misbehaving on W11

Necrosaro said:

The more I think about it, might be the connections wearing out if they were unplugged and plugged in too often. Could also be cable issues or even not quite seated correctly in its spot.

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Blue Tack helps with loose connections.

I use blue tack to hold my optical cable output from the SB Card from falling out because I pushed it in wrong & broke the little door that also locks the optical connector in place.

You can try the latest unofficial 3rd party drivers.

TairikuOkami said:

You can try the latest unofficial 3rd party drivers.

Daniel_K's Official Blog

Modified drivers for Creative soundcards

danielkawakami.blogspot.com

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That sounds like something I would try! I'll wait however until my backup disk order comes in.... I want to safeguard all the configuration and bugfixing I did setting this thing up before I start messing with it.

TairikuOkami said:

You can try the latest unofficial 3rd party drivers.

Daniel_K's Official Blog

Modified drivers for Creative soundcards

danielkawakami.blogspot.com

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Hm, reading through the blog he seems to have given up. He's not maintaining them anymore and the drivers are 1) not free from bugs and 2) only 'hopefully work' with W11. I won't be trying them for fear of wrecking something.

Well I removed the Audigy in the hope the onboard audio would maybe magically have the surround option HP promised (like those old jack-sensing chips from old) but alas, it really only outputs 2.0 stereo and the mic/line in jacks are just that.

Yerm said:

Hm, reading through the blog he seems to have given up. He's not maintaining them anymore and the drivers are 1) not free from bugs and 2) only 'hopefully work' with W11. I won't be trying them for fear of wrecking something.

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It doesn't matter who produces them, no driver is ever 100 percent perfect on all machines. That's life. Realize you are attempting to use old, discontinued hardware on a new operating system, so yeah, there's risk. If you don't feel comfortable with using hacked drivers, that's fine. Creating assumptions out of fear is not.

Anyway, Daniel K has been doing what he's been doing for a long time, and I've used his drivers myself in the past. If Creative doesn't have a driver for you, and you wish to use whatever card you have, I'd say give Daniel K's a try before declaring them bad.

You can always create a System Restore point before installing the drivers, and if something goes wrong, revert back....

And as always.... make sure you backup your data in-case something does go wrong.

Good luck.

This page shows a driver dated 8/12/15. I would try it. If it doesn't work, uninstall it and any software that came with it (be sure and remove driver), restart, then reinstall it in compatibility mode to see if it will work that way. Creative Worldwide Support - Sound Blaster Audigy Fx

The big problem is the SoundBlaster Audigy FX was released in 2013 and is no longer supported so I'm not sure there's going to be a driver that's 100 percent "bug free" for an OS (Windows 11) that was released in 2021

For those interested Creative did release a new SoundBlaster Audigy FX V2 in 2021


Edited for link change to U.S.

Dru2 said:

For those interested Creative did release a new SoundBlaster Audigy FX V2 in 2021

Creative Announces Sound Blaster Audigy Fx V2 Card

Creative Technology today announced the release of Sound Blaster Audigy Fx V2, the latest addition to its well-established series of Sound Blaster sound cards. A compelling facelift over its predecessor Sound Blaster Audigy Fx, which was already a bestseller in its own right, this sound card...

www.techpowerup.com

Sound Blaster Audigy Fx V2

The Sound Blaster Audigy Fx V2 delivers high-resolution 5.1 audio playback for your movies, music, and games. It also comes with audio enhancements and SmartComms Kit via Creative app.

us.creative.com

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Can't find it for sale in my country....

I've been suggested an Asus Strix Soar through another resource.
It's not W11 supported now, but Asus is planning to release W11 drivers in a few months.

Yerm said:

I've been suggested an Asus Strix Soar through another resource.
It's not W11 supported now, but Asus is planning to release W11 drivers in a few months.

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which Asus did NOT do so:

At present, the following ASUS sound card models are still available for sale, the problem is already solved in Win11 22H2. Please help let the customer update to Win11 22H2 firstly, then visit the support site of audio card and install the latest audio driver(Win10), and retry.


Xonar SE / Xonar AE / Strix RAID DLX / Strix RAID PRO / Strix SOAR

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after updating to win11 22h2, maybe uninstall the asus sound card drivers, reboot and re-install them

edit - although too little too late for this, the latest Sound Blaster Audigy FX (v1) {not V2} driver is 6.0.103.34 (not 6.0.103.30) from MUC.

Yerm said:

2) only 'hopefully work' with W11. I won't be trying them for fear of wrecking something.

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They absolutely do work, as I use them with my SB X-Fi Titanium.

I write it here for everyone.
The latest driver for fx and fxv2 is: DriverVer=01/16/2023, 6.0.105.0016 . (it work for both cards)
1)Install the drivers form creative.
2)Unzip the winrar file that i uploaded (i attached them in 4 parts so i can upload it here three parts 1 mb and fourth part 24 kb).
3) Go in device manager and update from the folder that you unzip first the sound blaster audigy fx device and the the sound blaster audio controller.
4) restart.

(the driver found in drvhub.net )
The driver is only x64 bit and work only in windows 10 and 11.