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re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

valery1972 — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:27:25 GMT

ok im needing help here.

as the information above is helpful i am missing several of the components listed there.

in playback on my sound properties i only have speakers and in reocording i only have the following listed

; mic, rear mic and line in even if i look at disabled items it only shows those ive listed help me please

re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

Nick White — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:36:48 GMT

Hey brian blessing: this blog is not the best place to seek technical support for Windows Vista; I'd suggest perusing our Help & How-To site and posting your question to one of our public newsgroups if you don't find an answer there: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/default.mspx.

re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

brian blessing — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:11:08 GMT

I've just created my own playlists of wav files on tv character /sound effects.Ican't get them to burn to my blank cd-r discs.How can i fix the problem.2ndly, one of my discs can playback on the windows media player11,but i don't get anything when i play them in a regular cd player,what gives.This is aggravating to the extereme.

re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

tuxave — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:24:48 GMT

Not sure if this is the right place but media player will not work on my Vista PC. Every time I select it I get the message WMP has stopped working. A problem caused it to stop working. Windows will notify you of a solution. On various internet site such as TSN.ca updates turn my internet off and restart. If I try to D/L WMP 11 from the MSN site it tells me I already have a newer version.

re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

Nick White — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:31:22 GMT

Hey Simon123: I agree that's frustrating. But, you're best off seeking help from the technical experts in our public newsgroups instead of on this blog: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.mspx.

re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

Simon123 — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:24:21 GMT

Visual - Audio synchronisation.

Can someone help me? When watching live TV I get a couple of seconds delay in the audio which is really frustrating. Is there someway I can synchronise this with the video? Any help much appreciated. Thanks, Simon

re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

Nathan Weinberg — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 05:47:51 GMT

So, is it possible that if I install a more generic Vista audio driver, I may get more functionality than I currently do with my XP driver running under Vista? That could make for some very interesting experimentation.

re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

Steve Ball — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 04:54:30 GMT

Hi Nathan - you are correct, the "Enhancements" shown above are dependent upon having HD Audio Hardware (that is designed to work with these effects) in your Windows Vista machine.

Our new inbox audio class driver does 'justs work' with a large percentage of the integrated audio hardware that is already in the market, but unfortunately, many systems that were shipping before Windows Vista launch still require custom XP-specific audio drivers that are provided by the OEMs who built your hardware.

Many of these custom drivers depend upon configuration data that is written (incorrectly in some cases) into the BIOS, so occasionally, a BIOS upgrade will be required for older audio hardware to work correctly with our inbox audio class driver.

This BIOS data essesntially tells the OS how the audio jacks are wired on the motherboard.

Unfortunately, in some cases, the only way older audio hardware will work correctly is if you find and use the original XP driver from your OEM or system vendor. Fortunately, this is a relatively small percentage of the audio hardware out there.

FWIW, there are literally tens of thousands of "custom" audio drivers who are each 'wired' slightly differently for each motherboard that has been shippped in the past.

For Windows Vista, this is one reason we've invested in a new inbox class driver and driver model -- this investment only really helps "next time" that is, in our next release, it will be much easier to upgrade your 'old' hardware and it will not require searching for a custom driver.

Of course, this does not necessarily help those clean installing over older hardware today -- if you are in the minority of users whose audio hw does not 'just work' after you clean install, you still may have to go search for your system disks or go to your OEM website to find your original audio drivers.

Hope this helps provide some context for this often misunderstood problem with the thousands and thousands of custom audio drivers that existed for XP.

-Steve

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re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

Nathan Weinberg — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:35:56 GMT

Nick: I'm assuming these features shipped with Vista. I'm also going to assume the features are not enabled unless the manufacturer provides Vista-specific drivers that enable the features. Assuming that is the case, are there any generic Vista drivers for the most popular integrated sound cards? The manufaturers don't seem to be doing their part, so I was hoping generic drivers might close the gap.

re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

Nick White — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:00:59 GMT

Hey gskvarma: my suspicion is that your hardware does not yet have a fully-Windows Vista-compatible audio driver for it yet. This issue will likely be resolved in the near future via Windows Update and/or by checking the audio card manufacturer's Web site. Hope this helps.

re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

gskvarma — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:08:56 GMT

I had upgraded to Vista, but all that is told here is not available for me, since my audio is not working at all after upgrading. Iam not able to get the audio driver for HP Compaq nx6310 for Vista. I tried all the options I could get, but in vain. Iam really feeling bad about this issue.

re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

tsmit32 — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:50:59 GMT

I have the Intel D975XBX motherboard with integrated HD Audio. When will drivers be available.

re: Audio Innovations in Windows Vista

duzins — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 02:20:23 GMT

If I could actually find a driver to work for my laptop I'd get to hear this great sound...

Coxenant's sound card isn't supported and after hours of trying to find the answer online, all I've found is tons of people with the same problem. :(