Is anyone using this card under XP or 2000. As far as I've read, there are no drivers other than the ones built in, and I get dropouts all the time with it. Other than tha hardware hacking trick to make it work, has anyone found a driverset or another kind of workaround?

http://www.vortexofsound.com/drivers/drivers.htm good luck

that a pretty old card...

It's mad old, says 1999 on the card. I used it a couple times just to see if it worked but the audio dropouts in Windows2000/XP made it unbarable to use and the only workaroud is to do some serious hardware hacking to get things to work on it. No fun, I think ill just go see what my computer savvy friend at school has to offer. He's got a box of sound cards that are just begging to be plucked.

what about
http://www.ncix.com/usa/productdetail.php?sku=6389 ?

*sssss*
I'll have to save up for a couple weeks at work, since I only work like 12hrs now I only make $50~ish a week. So If I save up for 2weeks, after I pay off my current credit card bill which is nearly $100 now thanks in no small part to the new asus, modem and power supply:)
I'll do the vortex shuffle for a while, but I'll definatly need something new.

i had a aureal, wouldnt run with 2k/xp. crashed my puter.

And I've got an old Gravis UltraSound GF1 lying around...

Wonder if it would work in XP

Those were the days... :wink:

I rembember the Gravis Ultrasound!
That was the shizzy back in the commander keen days.

I got the Aureal working now without the audio dropouts. It wasn't as big of a deal to do the hardware hack either. Things turned out pretty good and I have dual outs on my machine now

umm.. thats $20 =/

i run the aureal for games sick card never had problems with it (under xp as well)

sound aint perfect but fkn bs asus onboard shits itself ahwell so i use both at same time if i want but it locks up oh well (the onboard)
never does the aureal lock up pretty funny hearing all yous say how it crashes your machines

I got the Aureal 8310 (PCI Quad) - and it was and still is, on of the BEST cards on the market.. Even though It "only" got up to 4 sound sources (thru spdif), it supports A3D 2.0 and when you use it under win98se or winME (yuck) - you get it's full potential.. the sound is amazing.. it's real time surround.. unlike pre-recorded surround. You walk around and experience the game world in a different way..
If I could get multi speaker support with it under winxp, I'd be a happy man.. oh well, at least I got My nforce (1 with Soundstorm) which got Dolby Digital encoding
It's not about hardware hacking.. more like driver hacking. and since the "great" creative would not release the specs and materials about the vortex processor, no one in the open source community can engineer new drivers.. well, aside from the linux ppl, but that doesnt help me.