Any alternatives to Realtek drivers on Vista?

[TheVoice]

Hi all, just upgraded to Vista and am very happy so far. My main gripe though is that I'm not forced to use the awful Realtek drivers; on XP I used nVidia drivers which worked fantastically, but now I'm on Vista, my music sounds a bit...crap. I'm also getting an annoying delay from my rear speakers, although I believe that's down to Vista and not Realtek.

So are there any alternatives? Doesn't look like nVidia plan to release audio drivers for Vista, which is unfortunate. The only other option I see is buying a dedicated soundcard. If it comes to that though, I'll probably just buy the Logitech Z-10s - they don't use the soundcard anyway and I've got no need for the 5.1 set I have now.

Thanks for any help.

Forgot to mention, I also seem to be getting an annoying occasional stutter (in Winamp at least) when playing music. Happened on XP too, again only with Realtek drivers. I really have to wonder if they even know what they're doing...

[0iD]

I have to admit I don't have any problems with them on my setup using Vista x64 ultimate. Have you tried asking in the Abit support forum, see if Buff, ABIT.Sean, Gilgamesh etc have any answers? Other than that then it's a discrete sound card, a route i shall take now driver support is better for Creative x-fi cards.

[Nigelz]

I've tried Vista 32 on a number of different machines all with Realtek audio and all have had problems. I'm still waiting for drivers for the HP machines at work which refuse to play files in media centre due to audio driver problems.