Hi onethirdxcubed,
I just wanted to let you know, that I cover your driver in my latest video presentation about Windows 2000. The presentation also contains a bit of bug analysis for your driver. I hope, that it helps somehow.
Finally got around to releasing a new version which works better, supports higher sample rates if you set a Registry key, and fixes the installation hang when upgrading over an older version.
Very nice. Thank you Andrew.
I already thought you gave up. But thanks to your announcement I stand corrected and saw your 3 new versions (23, 24 and 25). I updated my system from version 22 to version 23 today and so far no problems appeared. If I can't find any regressions within the next week or 2 I'll move on to version 24.
I updated my system from version 23 to version 24 today and so far I noticed 1 regression:
When booting on a Windows 2000 machine and using version 23, Windows plays the start-sound. When using version 24, Windows does not play the start-sound.
However, when using version 24 it is possible to open the wave file in Media Player to play it manually. It sounds as horrible as it does with version 23, but it plays.
hey thanks for this!
I want to try one of these in 98se. look at the chip on the back it can act as a hd audio controller without the creative drivers installed. For dual booting xp and 98se.
https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/crea … xtreme-music-de
Start me up wrote on 2026-11-10, 01:52:I updated my system from version 23 to version 24 today and so far I noticed 1 regression:
When booting on a Windows 2000 machine and using version 23, Windows plays the start-sound. When using version 24, Windows does not play the start-sound.
However, when using version 24 it is possible to open the wave file in Media Player to play it manually. It sounds as horrible as it does with version 23, but it plays.
The startup sound should always play and it should NOT sound corrupted. What hardware are you using? Motherboard and chipset especially needed.
Warlord wrote on 2026-11-10, 05:16:hey thanks for this!
I want to try one of these in 98se. look at the chip on the back it can act as a hd audio controller without the creative drivers installed. For dual booting xp and 98se.https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/crea … xtreme-music-de
There are some PCIe sound cards that can be used with HD Audio class drivers but I don't think this is one of them. My main purpose for supporting multiple controllers is to handle discrete GPUs with HDMI audio out.
onethirdxcubed wrote on Yesterday, 19:14:What hardware are you using? Motherboard and chipset especially needed.
BIOS:
processor:
audio controller circuit:
audio codec circuit:
chipset:
- none, it's a system on chip (SOC) -
motherboard:
It's the test system #4 which was tested for my video presentation.
ok thanks for the response. That specific X-FI card however is fully UAA complaint. Will run without any drivers just only as an HD audio contoller with no XFI features. here is the data sheet. https://theretroweb.com/expansioncard/documen … 37049935226.pdf
Released version 0.26 https://github.com/andrew-hoffman/WDMHDA/releases
The startup or login sound does seem to be missing on Windows 2000. Will investigate.
Also I ordered a SB0770 so I guess I will find out if it actually works with HD Audio class drivers or if they meant UAA in a different way that only works on Vista and up. It was cheap enough.
