Windows 7 working drivers thread

[Jokerzwild]

This thread is for driver versions that are known to work with Windows 7. I made it because a lot of good links are getting buried in the W7 threads and some of this stuff might come in handy for someone making a new install. Also alot of us are using Win 7 as our primary OS so this thread should serve as reference for all the drivers we might need.

I'll start it with the new version of Intel Matrix Storage Manager that is obviously important to anyone running a RAID setup in Win 7.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=2101&DwnldID=17268&strOSs=163&OSFullName=Windows%20Vista*&lang=eng

Post anything you can find; sound, video, webcam, anything. Is there a new Realtek driver that gives access to the Realtek control panel? I can't find one.

If you find that a Vista driver works in W7 let us know that too, I've read about a lot of them working. Unfortunately the Vista 64 drivers for my Webcam don't work though .

Edit: List so far

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...43&postcount=8 nvidia Windows 7 driver
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...0&postcount=12 Realtek HD Audio driver
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...7&postcount=21 Creative X-Fi driver
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...6&postcount=42 ATi Windows 7 beta driver
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...0&postcount=44 Broadcom netXtreme desktop drivers v11.7.3.0
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...7&postcount=45 Rear Speaker Distortion FIX ( Realtek HD )
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...0&postcount=46 NVIDIA drivers for Windows 7 Beta
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...5&postcount=48 SB Audigy Support Pack 2.18.0001W7 (01/10/2009)
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...7&postcount=49 X-Fi Xtreme Audio Basic Driver for Windows 7 32-bit / 64-bit
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...4&postcount=68 Intel Chipset+RAID drivers
http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...5&postcount=69 Gigabyte SATA II RAID Driver and Broadcom Ethernet NIC NetXtreme desktop driver

Keep 'em coming guys!

[caveman-jim]

Intel smbus driver

Found it!

http://uswave.net/windows7/intel-smbus-drivers.zip

Like I said you have to manually install it though.

[Jokerzwild]

Right on! Forgot about that one, and it's important because at least on my setup it had no default driver in the W7 install, it gave me the exclamation mark in the device manager right from the start. You need to go in there and right click the SM Bus thingy>Properties>Update Driver and point it to that folder to update it.

[Kovster]

I plan on trying out Win7 tonight. I have a 680i and geforce 260 and xfi? Any ideas on drivers for those products?

Aslo is DX10 in this build as well? It would be cool trying out Bioshock.

[bittermann]

I plan on trying out Win7 tonight. I have a 680i and geforce 260 and xfi? Any ideas on drivers for those products?

Aslo is DX10 in this build as well? It would be cool trying out Bioshock.

Yes, I loaded the latest cat 8.12's and steam then downloaded Bioshok and it plays very, very well. This is on the W7 64bit beta. Steam installs the necessary DX files so if you don't have it you may need to install the latest Nov. redistributable DX9/10 update files.

Hope that helps!

[Kovster]

How about xfi and motherboard drivers?

How well ya think it'll run w/ 2gb?

Im just trying to get some facts together before i go through the hassle of installing it, and finding out it would just be pointless.

[caveman-jim]

Aslo is DX10 in this build as well? It would be cool trying out Bioshock.

Yes, I loaded the latest cat 8.12's and steam then downloaded Bioshok and it plays very, very well. This is on the W7 64bit beta. Steam installs the necessary DX files so if you don't have it you may need to install the latest Nov. redistributable DX9/10 update files.

Hope that helps!

How about xfi and motherboard drivers?

How well ya think it'll run w/ 2gb?

Im just trying to get some facts together before i go through the hassle of installing it, and finding out it would just be pointless.

These kinds of discussion would be better served in their own thread, or in the Windows 7 build thread.

[caveman-jim]

I plan on trying out Win7 tonight. I have a 680i and geforce 260 and xfi? Any ideas on drivers for those products?

Xfi I think is kinda working (possibly no surround sound, but audio plays) if you install using Vista driver package in Vista compatibility mode.

680i should be natively supported, if not then try the vista nforce drivers installing using vista compatibility mode and report back.

Geforce 260 should be supported with then nVidia windows 7 driver:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_7.html

Instructions:

1. After a fresh installation of the Windows 7 Beta, click on the Start button.
2. Click Windows Update (it will be pinned to the top of the start menu). You can also type “Windows Update” into the start menu Search to locate Windows Update.
3. Within Windows Update, locate and install the NVIDIA driver update (it will either be an important update or an optional update depending on your system).

Although again, you can try the vista package installer using vista compatibility mode.

[Pirate Neilsouth]

Xfi I think is kinda working (possibly no surround sound, but audio plays) if you install using Vista driver package in Vista compatibility mode.

Xfi Xtreme Audio doesn't work but thats the only one that doesn't work at all , Old driver base and not a true xf soundcard.

[[GFX]TheDon]

Funny enough my X-Fi Extreme Audio works, I installed the latest webdriver for it in Vista compatibility mode.

[Pirate Neilsouth]

Funny enough my X-Fi Extreme Audio works, I installed the latest webdriver for it in Vista compatibility mode.

Wow really? , you're the first one i've heard it works for .

[Jokerzwild]

Thanks to Scott we now have working Realtek HD Audio drivers!!

I found the drivers here. I'll check back when they're installed.


Edit - controllable speakers now!

That's

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsCheck.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

And pick the Vista 32/64 driver, either the zip or exe. Works perfectly so far, control panel and everything .

[Scott]

That's

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsCheck.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=14&PFid=24&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

And pick the Vista 32/64 driver, either the zip or exe. Works perfectly so far, control panel and everything .

I don't know if it's the drivers or a Source issue... TF2 sounded very quiet so I alt-tabbed out to see the volume mixer has the game down at 10% when all other volumes are at 80%. So I slid it up on par with everything else and it sounded fine. Game over and wait for the next TF2 game... sounds low again... checked... 10% again.

[shady078]

I don't know if it's the drivers or a Source issue... TF2 sounded very quiet so I alt-tabbed out to see the volume mixer has the game down at 10% when all other volumes are at 80%. So I slid it up on par with everything else and it sounded fine. Game over and wait for the next TF2 game... sounds low again... checked... 10% again.

Do you play with a headset?

Windows 7 added an audio ducking function that will reduce volume by 80% by default when it detects communication coming in to make sure you can hear people talking. Try disabling voice chat in the game and see if the audio stays consistent.

[Pirate Neilsouth]

SB X-Fi Series Support Pack 1.0 ( WINDOWS 7 )

- Creative SB X-Fi PCI (except Xtreme Audio)
- Creative SB X-Fi Titanium PCI-E
- Auzentech X-Fi Prelude

- Windows XP
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows Vista
- Windows Server 2008
- Windows 7 Beta

- Creative SB X-Fi series driver 2.18.0001.8
- Creative SB X-Fi Titanium series driver 2.17.0006.8 BETA
- Auzentech X-Fi Prelude driver 2.14.0001 RC8.1
- Creative Audio Control Panel 2.55.12
- Creative Console Launcher 2.60.35
- DDL and DTS Connect License Activation 2.00.03 (*)
- Dolby Digital Live Pack 3.00.00 (*)
- DTS Connect Pack 1.03.00 (*)
- SoundFont Bank Manager 3.20.34
- THX Console 3.00.22

- CMSS works properly on Windows 7 Beta
- THX Console works with Auzentech X-Fi Prelude and other cards
- DTS Interactive encoder available on Windows XP
- All setup scripts were modified to detect Windows 7 Beta.

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=135215

Drivers being uploaded...

[[GFX]TheDon]

except Xtreme Audio.

[Pirate Neilsouth]

Thanks to Scott we now have working Realtek HD Audio drivers!!

And pick the Vista 32/64 driver, either the zip or exe. Works perfectly so far, control panel and everything .

They are the SAME drivers as was posted via the guru link a day before Scott posted them . Anyhoo the rear speaker output is very distorted and LOW , you can hardly hear the music through them. Also tried upping the DB in speaker setup

[Pirate Neilsouth]

except Xtreme Audio.

I saw that too , problem with that sound card is the drivers by creative are many months behind the standard xfi soundcard drivers. So unless creative release an update no chance

[dawdler]

They are the SAME drivers as was posted via the guru link a day before Scott posted them . Anyhoo the rear speaker output is very distorted and LOW , you can hardly hear the music through them. Also tried upping the DB in speaker setup

Its not the same driver that's on guru3D... dig up my post somewhere. The guru3D one (WDM+Vista directories in the extracted folders) did not work. Single package exe worked.

[Pirate Neilsouth]

Its not the same driver that's on guru3D... dig up my post somewhere. The guru3D one (WDM+Vista directories in the extracted folders) did not work. Single package exe worked.

Worked fine for me , just set the vista dir setup.exe to vista compatible and it installed fine.

[Pirate Neilsouth]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q3PTPG60

DONE

[Blín D'ñero]

Thanks very much for posting!

[Jokerzwild]

Well regardless they needed to be in this thread .

[caveman-jim]

I guess neilsouth is being all piratey and not using the windows 7 drivers thread...

[caveman-jim]

Looking good Jokerz; how about you update your OP to make it kinda an index, linking to posts in the thread regarding specific drivers? Like the realtek ones, or the smbus ones etc.
Also you need merge in pirate-i'm-not-posting-in-no-smegging-drivers-for-windows-7-thread-neil-south's thread (whew! his middle name is long!)

[Jokerzwild]

Looking good Jokerz; how about you update your OP to make it kinda an index, linking to posts in the thread regarding specific drivers? Like the realtek ones, or the smbus ones etc.
Also you need merge in pirate-i'm-not-posting-in-no-smegging-drivers-for-windows-7-thread-neil-south's thread (whew! his middle name is long!)

Excellent idea, I did just that. Maybe putting this in your important OS threads sticky would be helpful as well?

[Jokerzwild]

Looking good Jokerz; how about you update your OP to make it kinda an index, linking to posts in the thread regarding specific drivers? Like the realtek ones, or the smbus ones etc.
Also you need merge in pirate-i'm-not-posting-in-no-smegging-drivers-for-windows-7-thread-neil-south's thread (whew! his middle name is long!)

Can't merge his threads though, I forgot I'm not all powerful . I'll at least link them here though. Edit: Hold that thought though

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=135215

Creative X-Fi driver courtesy of Pirate Neilsouth . http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33939205

[Pirate Neilsouth]

pirate-i'm-not-posting-in-no-smegging-drivers-for-windows-7-thread-neil-south's thread (whew! his middle name is long!)

Sush you........

[oasked]

Intel smbus driver

No X58 drivers? (ICH10R)

[Pirate Neilsouth]

UPDATE

X-Fi Xtreme Audio / Audigy SE / LS / Live! 24-bit are out of luck, cause the driver has a serious issue with Vista 7 that only Creative can fix.

Im back to Vista 64 now anyway , i doubt creative are going to do anything atleast well into window 7's lifetime.

[Jokerzwild]

Can't merge his threads though, I forgot I'm not all powerful . Edit: Hold that thought though

K... I merged his thread with this one. One driver thread to rule them all!

[Pirate Neilsouth]

Bah ! you listened to that mong

[Jokerzwild]

Bah ! you listened to that mong

Well, you did have a point in your nvidia thread with the whole not working thing . I'm leaving that one as is.

[Scott]

Do you play with a headset?

Windows 7 added an audio ducking function that will reduce volume by 80% by default when it detects communication coming in to make sure you can hear people talking. Try disabling voice chat in the game and see if the audio stays consistent.

No headset, 2.1 speakers. Disabled voice ingame, quit and restarted TF2, no voice ingame and volume still drops to 10% when I join a server.

[caveman-jim]

Well, you did have a point in your nvidia thread with the whole not working thing . I'm leaving that one as is.

fine, its not going in the sticky thread then

[Blín D'ñero]

Installed Catalyst 8.12 hotfix 64 drivers the normal way (no cmd needed) on freshly installed W7 -64, (after DX Nov 2008 btw).

Installed X-Fi Vista drivers (incl whatever i wanted from the package) from CD, then update via Creative web autoupdate, including Alchemy.

No probs sofar.

[Jokerzwild]

fine, its not going in the sticky thread then

Charlie just made me the Lord of all things computer, so I can damn well put it in there myself now!

[caveman-jim]

you'll still come to me when you get stuck

[Jokerzwild]

you'll still come to me when you get stuck

Wut? I'll still come in you and get stuck?

[caveman-jim]

Wut? I'll still come in you and get stuck?

you wish!