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#1 2009-09-23 7:29 pm
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Sound card issue
I've got a fairly new Vista PC in front of me. Sound card is not recognized. Also, there's an app apparently by "Creative Professional" which is asking us to register even tho we decline.
Let us say that I take this to a shop for delousing. In addition to demonstrating the problems, is there anything that the old hands of Boot Camp forum suggest that I tell the delousers to look for ?
A virus scan revealed nothing. (On the other hand, I saw an ominous warning that some anti-virus software was not operational. I only saw it once, so I can't recall much.)
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#2 2009-09-24 7:17 am
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Re: Sound card issue
Sound cards require a workaround to work properly on Vista, which removed the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) for such devices. Games and similar apps need middleware like Creative wrote for their later cards, that translates previous DirectSound calls to OpenAL calls. Vista drivers aren't enough, tho needed as well.
Since you seem to have a Creative card in there (hopefully an X-Fi), you can download the appropriate middleware (forget its name offhand) directly from Creative. I think there was a fairly recent driver update as well.
Perhaps your sys already has it present. Creative can be a bit intrusive in these matters, and might want some kind of registration. If you do have a Creative card in the box, I wouldn't be too concerned about malware having been snuck in. You might check with the vendor to make sure.
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