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As an aside, the hardware/driver support for sound cards is terrible on modern Windows. There's this trusty Creative Audigy Rx that I nabbed from a closing dow

As an aside, the hardware/driver support for sound cards is terrible on modern Windows. There's this trusty Creative Audigy Rx that I nabbed from a closing down sale at an electronics retailer. Poetically, both are facing the same fate. I built a Ryzen 7 machine and installed Windows 10. Whilst installing the CD drivers for the soundcard Windows 10 BSOD'd and rebooted. Not to be deterred, I tried the latest downloadable drivers (marked as Windows 8 compatible) but it is all WDM so surely OK? Not so. Another BSOD. There was no help to be found online so I very reluctantly gave up. Now it lives in the retail packaging somewhere in my house, the bright and elaborate box promising an audible experience that exists only in my mind.

P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y ago
years ago I purchased a Create Sound Blaster ZxR. Windows _never_ worked well with it. A reboot may or may not have my sound card undetected due to some bug, I think it was related to their PlugNPlay, but I don't recall. Until they completely dropped support for it, so then I just flat couldn't use it. And Linux support for it never really came around (maybe now? no idea). So my policy now is fuck Creative. I purchased good money for a top-of-the-line sound card that never worked well and rather than fixing it they dropped support for the very next version of Windows. I just use my motherboard audio because I don't have to deal with that shit and if I do ever purchase another separate soundcard it sure as shit won't be Creative.
Sakos 4y ago
Might want to try a modded driver: https://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/2020/08/sb-audigy-series-support-pack-70.html https://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/2020/08/sb-audigy-series... I gave up on official drivers years ago.