smirnoff
08-14-2007, 07:50 PM
After reading through several newsgroups over the net, I realizes Microsoft has added "Enhancements" to the Audio interface in Vista that are available in the standard UAA drivers. These enhancements allow highly advanced Bass Management Control, Speaker Fill (similar to CMSS, but MS sounds better), Room Correction and Loudness Equalization.
Microsoft also makes these features available to everyone coding there own drivers and actually recommends that they are available to end users. Creative thought otherwise
And... To the point: You can actually do a small edit in the driver INF file, reinstall the driver and voila: the Enhancements are available and working.
Creative has coded the support in the drivers, but for some reason decided to block installation at last minute:
Unpack the latest Vista drivers (I used the latest STABLE ones)
Go to the Drivers Subfolder
Open the "wdma_emu.inf" file in Notepad
Add a semicolon ";" in front of the two "Catalog...=..." entries (Otherwise Windows will read the digital signature, see that the file was edited and refuse to install it)
Search for the "[Live2K.Interface.Topology]" section
Add "MSSysFX.AddReg" to the "AddReg=..." entry. (It should then look like this AddReg=Live2K.Interface.Topo.AddReg, CTSysFx.AddReg, OEMSettingsOverride_Speaker.AddReg, MSSysFx.AddReg )
Save the file
Reinstall the drivers (Preferably using the Setup.exe located in the DRIVERS folder)
Interesting find. I thought I'd add that this works also for Audigy 2 Plat. EX. The line:
AddReg=Live2K.Interface.Topo.AddReg, CTSysFx.AddReg, OEMSettingsOverride_Speaker.AddReg ;; MSSysFx.AddReg
is already present, simply remove the double semicolon and separate with a coma, save and install.
Thank the boys in the creative forum and no creative for this, its not my find but alexs3d2 .
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=22938
Microsoft also makes these features available to everyone coding there own drivers and actually recommends that they are available to end users. Creative thought otherwise
And... To the point: You can actually do a small edit in the driver INF file, reinstall the driver and voila: the Enhancements are available and working.
Creative has coded the support in the drivers, but for some reason decided to block installation at last minute:
Unpack the latest Vista drivers (I used the latest STABLE ones)
Go to the Drivers Subfolder
Open the "wdma_emu.inf" file in Notepad
Add a semicolon ";" in front of the two "Catalog...=..." entries (Otherwise Windows will read the digital signature, see that the file was edited and refuse to install it)
Search for the "[Live2K.Interface.Topology]" section
Add "MSSysFX.AddReg" to the "AddReg=..." entry. (It should then look like this AddReg=Live2K.Interface.Topo.AddReg, CTSysFx.AddReg, OEMSettingsOverride_Speaker.AddReg, MSSysFx.AddReg )
Save the file
Reinstall the drivers (Preferably using the Setup.exe located in the DRIVERS folder)
Interesting find. I thought I'd add that this works also for Audigy 2 Plat. EX. The line:
AddReg=Live2K.Interface.Topo.AddReg, CTSysFx.AddReg, OEMSettingsOverride_Speaker.AddReg ;; MSSysFx.AddReg
is already present, simply remove the double semicolon and separate with a coma, save and install.
Thank the boys in the creative forum and no creative for this, its not my find but alexs3d2 .
http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=22938