The drivers are at a lower version because it is a total rewrite. The driver codebase was rewritten to make the driver "Unified Driver Architecture & will be known as Creative MDP (Multi-Driver Pack)". This way in the future 1 Webupdate will update both Card Families at once. Also anyone who has doubts about the April 30, 2002 Date on the FTP site where this download is located, please remember the Creative announcement posted here yesterday in which it mentioned "OEM's are already using the new driver." Hence they get the updates before the public release.

The drivers are at a lower version because it is a total rewrite. The driver codebase was rewritten to make the driver "Unified Driver Architecture & will be known as Creative MDP (Multi-Driver Pack)". This way in the future 1 Webupdate will update both Card Families at once. Also anyone who has doubts about the April 30, 2002 Date on the FTP site where this download is located, please remember the Creative announcement posted here yesterday in which it mentioned "OEM's are already using the new driver." Hence they get the updates before the public release.

DON'T INSTALL THESE DRIVERS! I download them on tuesday night and installed 'em then windows kept on repeatedly core dumping after I restarted. I couldn't get into safe mode, last known good settings or get into the system restore interface. If you do install 'em you've been warned.

It's sounds like you got a corrupt download. I have a Audigy Platinum installed on WinXP Home. I had problems with the CD included in the Package. My Mixer was not operating. So I downloaded this CD Burned & installed it now "Total Joy". I have had problems as you described when I downloaded driver files for my Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4600. I just redownloaded & installed successfully.

Uninstall is not a must if it is neccessary the setup package will detect & Warn user before proceeding. I just ran a test on this question on a machine which had a working previous version under WinXP the setup Warned me previous version detected setup will now uninstall before proceeding. However if you feel safer uninstalling yourself go ahead it won't hurt as long as you reboot before running setup otherwise Windows produces Error "Sound Card not properly setup please reinstall."

Creative says it is unified for the SBlive Family of cards as well as Audigy line. But Remember Nvidia is unified & they still need to ask people to use Detonater 3 instead of 4 on some cards. Hopefully Creative won't make that mistake.

Here on an Audigy and Xp pro. no problems. Remember to delete the indicated file before installing. They are on a compressed zip exe file so you need Einzip to uncompress them and delete the file, search for it on the subdirectories. Then use the setup.exe from one of the subdirectories. they installed fine and work fine. They bring some nice things specially for people with the Audigy drive, soemthing related to AC3 importing via SPDF I think. You can read more about it on www.3dsoundsurge.com forums, just search for "compaq" under the audigy forum and you will find lots of info. Also theu bring a better hearphone support for those that have the audigy drive, I don't have it :(

Here on an Audigy and Xp pro. no problems. Remember to delete the indicated file before installing. They are on a compressed zip exe file so you need Einzip to uncompress them and delete the file, search for it on the subdirectories. Then use the setup.exe from one of the subdirectories. they installed fine and work fine. They bring some nice things specially for people with the Audigy drive, soemthing related to AC3 importing via SPDF I think. You can read more about it on www.3dsoundsurge.com forums, just search for "compaq" under the audigy forum and you will find lots of info. Also theu bring a better hearphone support for those that have the audigy drive, I don't have it :(

Well I am going to try the drivers anyway (downloading as we speak) Cause the drivers I have now is dated freggin years ago.

Theese drivers I am sure is better for my system than the ones that shipped with the Audigy cards... those drivers are dated like a year ago