Diabolical82 Posted August 14, 2004 Share Posted August 14, 2004 I found a better way to install Creative Lab's Proprietary Audigy Driver. STEP 1Download the latest driver and extract the driver.STEP 2The folder's name should read "EAX4DRV_AUDIGY2_1_84_50" but keep in mind number change per release.STEP 3Look for "Drivers" folder and take that out and rename the folder such as "005_Audigy2ZS" then put it in $OEM$\$1\DriversSTEP 4Add the switch in RunOnceEX or BatchRunOnceEXREG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "Installing Audigy 2ZS Driver" /fREG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Drivers\005_Audigy2ZS\CTZAPXX.exe /S" /fBatchECHO Installing Audigy 2ZS DriverECHO Please wait...start /wait %systemdrive%\Drivers\005_Audigy2ZS\CTZAPXX.exe /SWinXP should detect driver on next reboot.It's pretty simple. Let me know if you found any other switches. At least it worked for me. This method should work with Audigy 1, 2, 2ZS. Dunno about rest of other.For those who still want Creative Control Panel, I made mini-installer that'll add CtPanel to your Control PanelCtPanel_Silentno switch are need for CP, just add line like this%systemdrive%\Drivers\005_Audigy2ZS\CtPanel_Silent.exeEDIT: Added links for CtPanel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 So you CAN silently use CZAPXX.exe!!! I guess it didn't work for me because I don't have a Creative audio card in my system...Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 Thanks for the info. This sure is good news for Creative card owners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pr0digal jenius Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 awesome..i'll add that to my disk for sure now maybe my nasty hack for silently 'install' all the creative apps will work, as it has creative drivers/hardware to work with...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabolical82 Posted August 15, 2004 Author Share Posted August 15, 2004 I only wanted is a driver, none of other garbage and that's why I don't like creative's driver on cd that came with my hardware. It's bloat, and install bunches of stuff that I don't need and annoying flash animation poping up all over screen and nagging about registering. much appericate for your comments and thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted August 15, 2004 Share Posted August 15, 2004 I only wanted is a driver, none of other garbage and that's why I don't like creative's driver on cd that came with my hardware. It's bloat, and install bunches of stuff that I don't need and annoying flash animation poping up all over screen and nagging about registering. much appericate for your comments and thanks!When you're using the driver's inf file, it installs NOTHING but the driver, not even the control panel! But I assume you DO want the control panel to be installed, don't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabolical82 Posted August 15, 2004 Author Share Posted August 15, 2004 yeah I do, that way I have control over EAX, THX, Bit Rate eg. 48Khz or 92Khz, and etc. That's why I create mini-installer that'll install CP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaspin Posted August 16, 2004 Share Posted August 16, 2004 Is Step 4 needed? Does it not read the .inf file and install the base driver through using OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\005_Audigy2ZS" ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabolical82 Posted August 16, 2004 Author Share Posted August 16, 2004 I've tried pointing it from winnt.sif's OemPnPDriversPath but it doesnt work that way, so I end up using silent install. OemPnPDriversPath is not required for this to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaspin Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 It does work with OemPnPDriversPath I put the entire "EAX4DRV_AUDIGY2_1_84_50" folder into "\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\030_Audio\" (just my usage, and you can probably slim it down some) then in winnt.sif, OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\030_Audio\Drivers\WDM"(point to the WDM folder where the .inf files are)Doesn't install the CPanel of course, so you'll still need to install afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diabolical82 Posted August 17, 2004 Author Share Posted August 17, 2004 Humm Strange last time I tried, doesn't work out for me. If it work for you then stick with it. By the way, do you put everything in there or just driver containing WDM? I'll try this TMW if I get a chance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bâshrat the Sneaky Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Humm Strange last time I tried, doesn't work out for me. If it work for you then stick with it. By the way, do you put everything in there or just driver containing WDM? I'll try this TMW if I get a chance.It DOES work that way, but indeed the control panel won't be installed (working on that one...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaspin Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Humm Strange last time I tried, doesn't work out for me. If it work for you then stick with it. By the way, do you put everything in there or just driver containing WDM? I'll try this TMW if I get a chance.I put everything (I have room to spare) but I think it should work with just Drivers and all of it's subfolders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knewman01 Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 It did not work for me with just drivers. I'll give the whole folder a go later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaspin Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 (edited) Ok, I got everything working, including CtPanel.Download EAX4DRV_AUDIGY2_1_84_50.exe through www.creative.comextract to $OEM$\$1\Drivers\005_Audigy2ZS edit winnt.sif and add:[Unattended]OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\005_Audigy2ZS\Drivers\WDM"That will install the base drivers.edit RunOnceEx.cmd and add:IF EXIST %systemroot%\system32\drivers\ctaud2k.sys REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "Installing Audigy 2ZS CtPanel" /fIF EXIST %systemroot%\system32\drivers\ctaud2k.sys REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%systemdrive%\Drivers\005_Audigy2ZS\Drivers\CTZAPXX.exe /S" /fIF EXIST %systemroot%\system32\drivers\ctaud2k.sys REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 2 /D "xcopy.exe /y \"%systemdrive%\Drivers\005_Audigy2ZS\Drivers\WDM\COMMON\CtCtrlPan.cpl\" \"%systemroot%\system32\"" /fIF EXIST %systemroot%\system32\drivers\ctaud2k.sys REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 3 /D "xcopy.exe /y \"%systemdrive%\Drivers\005_Audigy2ZS\Drivers\WDM\COMMON\CtPanel.exe\" \"%systemroot%\system32\"" /fThe IF EXIST bits makes sure the drivers are installed, so you won't install CtPanel on systems without an Audigy sound card.We are running CTZAPXX here, because CtPanel will otherwise give an error stating that the drivers aren't installed (even though they really are).the xcopy parts copy the 2 CtPanel files to \windows\system32\. Windows automaticly checks all .cpl files in system32 and adds them to the control panel. Edited August 19, 2004 by Kaspin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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