PROBLEM: Old soundcard drivers seem to be affecting new soundcard...

Sarastro · Sep 5, 2005, 08:42 PM

Have a problem which I hope someone here might understand!

Been trying out soundcards to see which one I am going to use. Installed Creative Audigy 2 ZS a few weeks ago, and it ran perfectly. I installed Creative E-MU card, and found it was pretty much incompatible with everything, real nightmare. Powerful enough for recording purposes, but useless as a media platform, couldn't run games, DVD, anything else (even MIDI, which is why I installed the thing...) without severe sound corruption. Today I uninstalled the EMU card and re-installed the Audigy...and the sound corruption has stayed!

This corruption has mostly been noticed in games, but also generally in DVD. Within games it seems to be limited to specific types of files (such as speech cues). Though logically I know that the card cannot have actually corrupted the specific files I was listening to, just to be thorough I tested it by loading a completely level unplayed while I had the EMU installed, and corruption is still there. Other apps which I have tried so far seem to work, such as ITunes and so on, but these worked under the EMU card as well.

I have run Driver Cleaner Pro at various points of install and uninstalling, re-installed the Audigy several times and updated to the latest drivers. My suspicion is that either a) some driver from the EMU has been retained (since they all start ct* from Creative) but this should have been destroyed by the cleaner, or b) the games (all I have tested it on so far) have retained an autodetect setup or their own driver (but for games...?) for the EMU card, so I reinstalled them and no difference.

Fairly sure I could get rid of the problem by reinstalling Windows, but I really, really don't want to do that.

If it matters...

2.5GHz P4
758MB RAM
Audigy 2ZS
GEForce 6600
WinXP SP2
Partridge
Pear tree.

Anyone have the faintest idea what could be causing this? I'm stumped...

Logla · Sep 8, 2005, 02:05 PM

Try re-installing directx 9. Not sure if it will help but I had a similar problem on a friends machine and it worked on his.

Sep 5, 2005, 08:42 PM	#1
Sarastro DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	PROBLEM: Old soundcard drivers seem to be affecting new soundcard... Have a problem which I hope someone here might understand! Been trying out soundcards to see which one I am going to use. Installed Creative Audigy 2 ZS a few weeks ago, and it ran perfectly. I installed Creative E-MU card, and found it was pretty much incompatible with everything, real nightmare. Powerful enough for recording purposes, but useless as a media platform, couldn't run games, DVD, anything else (even MIDI, which is why I installed the thing...) without severe sound corruption. Today I uninstalled the EMU card and re-installed the Audigy...and the sound corruption has stayed! This corruption has mostly been noticed in games, but also generally in DVD. Within games it seems to be limited to specific types of files (such as speech cues). Though logically I know that the card cannot have actually corrupted the specific files I was listening to, just to be thorough I tested it by loading a completely level unplayed while I had the EMU installed, and corruption is still there. Other apps which I have tried so far seem to work, such as ITunes and so on, but these worked under the EMU card as well. I have run Driver Cleaner Pro at various points of install and uninstalling, re-installed the Audigy several times and updated to the latest drivers. My suspicion is that either a) some driver from the EMU has been retained (since they all start ct* from Creative) but this should have been destroyed by the cleaner, or b) the games (all I have tested it on so far) have retained an autodetect setup or their own driver (but for games...?) for the EMU card, so I reinstalled them and no difference. Fairly sure I could get rid of the problem by reinstalling Windows, but I really, really don't want to do that. If it matters... 2.5GHz P4 758MB RAM Audigy 2ZS GEForce 6600 WinXP SP2 Partridge Pear tree. Anyone have the faintest idea what could be causing this? I'm stumped...

Sep 8, 2005, 02:05 PM	#2
Logla DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,308 Rep Power: 50	Try re-installing directx 9. Not sure if it will help but I had a similar problem on a friends machine and it worked on his.