Audigy 2 H

Hi just wanted to know if anyone has hacked or upgraded their Audigy 2
card by a soft mod or some way to something noticeable like an Audigy 4 or X-Fi?
Thks

IMO, original drivers and software works the best in all situations. As mentioned already, just forger those YoupPaX 'mods' ... AFAIK, there's only EQ mod made and that you can do by other components of yours (you sure know that your speakers/headphones/etc. are more important for final sound 'quality' than the card itself) using EQ software.
As the quality degradation comes from internal resampling/SRC, the best possible "hack" you can have for Audigy 2 card is a well prepared SRC plug-in for 44.kHz to 48kHz conversion.
If your playback software does not have one as nati've or it does not support SRC plug-in then, just prepare your audio using resolution/samplerate 6-bit/48kHz or 24-bit/96kHz. mp3's supports 48kHz, WAV, WMP, FLAC, etc. supports both mentioned data types.
For best free SRC/dither you can use Voxengo r8brain free (use this for CD rips (rip CD as 6/44. (CD format) and then convert to one of those nati've formats by the selected final format capacity (i.e. mp3 -> 48 kHz, other's maybe 96khz). Then convert to mp3 or other format using say Creative Audio Converter software.
If you like to compare the audio quality when SRC from 44.kHz to 48kHz is done "on the fly" by the software against hardware SRC then compare NI TRAKTOR Beatport SYNC's output (using Creative nati've ASIO drivers) against some other players as like CT Mediasource/Windows Media Player, iTunes or Winamp/Foobar2000/MediaMonkey (w/o resampling plug-in) ... you should hear the difference.
http://www.nati've-instruments.com/index.php?id=beatportsync
jutapaMessage Edited by jutapa on 02-28-20080:2 PM

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I have tried not to push this, for the past year, but I have really reached the end of my patience. The driver support for the Audigy 2 NX (USB-External) sound card is nearly 'non-exsistant'and it is have a major adverse effect on my gaming.
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Let me be 'Brutally Honest' about the lack of support and 'Expanding Use' of a FINE audio chipset. While Creative has regularlly expanded the features and use of the chipset in the ZS notebook card (added EAX 4.0 support, refined the HD support, and made regular driver updates), they have left the owners of the NX sound card BACK in the 20th Century. There is NO support for; EAX 4.0, Open AL, OR THX for my NX the very same people have gone out of their way to provide ALL of those features and regular updates and expansion of these SAME features in the ZX Notebook card. I have both of these cards, and have used both in my HP Pavilion zd8230us Notebook computer. I have to be clear and precise, the difference in; sound, use, and capabilities of the ZX to the NX is like putting a SB 'Li've' card against and Audigy 4 card. I paid the exact same amount of money for BOTH cards, yet (because my mobo does not support the PCMCIA card) I am left with this 'Black Sheep' of the Creative family, and this has me at the point I am seriously thinking of never buying another Creative product for ANY of my four desktops and one notebook in my entire life.
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OK, first; thanks for the link. It is very much appreciated. Next, this is the only card compatible with my Pavilion zd8230us (as per HP Senior Support Technicains). I was told that the Audigy 2 zx PCMICA was compatible (BY Creative), only to be told by HP that that card can and will do damage to my notebook. I find it very disturbing that Creative would suggest a product that would damage my computer! Last, the box (for the NX) says that it is 24 bit HD audio 96KHz/02db Signal to noise ratio. As well, it clearly states ON THE FRONT OF THE BOX:

"...EAX ADVANCED HD game effects" 

Sorry, but in English (at least American English) that means it supports EAX in games, yes? lol So, THEY Are the ones that decided to put that on the FRONT of the box, if it doesn't support it then they should have a class action lawsuit filed against them by EVERY SINGLE person that ever purchased an NX and we should be paid for; purchase price, pain and suffering, and puniti've damages. THEN Creative might learn a lesson. roflol

Now on to the 'driver' isssue. Simple, Alexs3d2, the American consumer expects 'Driver Updates'. Why? Simple, what version of Direct X was standard when the NX came out, and what version are we using now? Microsoft sees fit to improve the API that Creative is making money off of, but Creative does NOT see the responsibility to the consumer to keep UP with the technology that we end users update on a regular basis. Next, I am tired of people dogging ATI BECAUSE they have taken on the responsibility to issue monthly driver updates! Granted, Alex, you may well understand 'what' the driver updates ARE better than the average user. However, that does NOT dismiss the BETTER PERFORMANCE that WE experience every single we update or display adapter drivers! Just because slough (on the part of SOME companies) is accepted by a small cross section of the population does not mean that the rest of us should LOWER our expectations? of the company that WE keep in business. Least THEY forget that WE are the reason they ARE in business!!! Driver updates are GOOD. Driver updates are what end users EXPECT. Any company that does not want to support a product that is still on store shelves should just pack up and leave. Period. 

Last, here is a little quote from the back of the NX box. 

"USB 2.0 is only supported in Windows XP and REQUIRES ONLINE SOFTWARE update(s) from Microsoft and SOUNDBLASTER.COM..." 

How the hell am I supposed to accomplish THAT when Creative screws me out of what they tell me I require? 

In closing; this venue is not the only place that I have been sounding off a bout this problem. I have written Creative (SB) Tech support, and they are giving me 'double speak'. I have kept every single email that they have sent back, and cc'd to another email addy for verification. I li've in California, and you can not swing a dead cat without hitting an attorney. I WAS hoping that Creative would be GOOD and RESPONSIBLE partners, but they have forced my hand. I have filed a complaint with the California Department of Consumer Affairs, and am in the process of gathering users for the afore mentioned 'Class Action Lawsuit'. This way, the PEOPLE get to decide WHAT is responsible corporate stewardship, and IF Creative is acting in a deliberate way to misrepresent their products, and their capabilities and IF they should have to release Drivers just the way they tell us they are going to on the packaging!! 

EnzoMatrix

P.S. Umm, the whole Nazi thing... that is a bit over the top. I am Jewish, and Creative may have killed my love of their products, but I do not know of anyone that they have actually killed. If you know otherwise, let me know... that info could come in very handy in my class action lawsuit!! roflol
P.P.S. Looking at this forum, I get the impression that I am not the only person that feels screwed by SB and Creative. THAT should make for a VERY favorable jury pool for the lawsuit.
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I've taken steps suggested in another thread on this forum and uninstalled all Creative software and drivers, used the latest driver package's uninstall program as well as Driver Cleaner, and finally manually deleted everything related to Creative and Audigy from the system registry (and rebooted quite a few times in between). I then installed the original drivers from the CD that came with the sound card (a setup that has worked before), but still the problem persists.
Any ideas on where to even begin looking for a solution? I find it hard to believe that it's a hardware problem, since three inputs suddenly went silent at the same time, and no other connections were affected. Yet I've done as clean a reinstall as possible, and that hasn't solved the problem.
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I don't have a Platinum Pro or the dri've, but a general hardware troubleshooting step I would take would be to remove the soundcard and either move it to another slot or re-seat it. Also, I'd disconnnect and reconnect all cables to and from the card and the dri've. If I had another machine I could try the card or dri've in, I'd do that. If I could borrow another dri've or even another card, I'd test those too. (Swapping parts is often the simplest diagnostic.) Yeah, maybe it's not a hardware problem, but I'd take these steps just to rule out some possibilities.
Edit: And if you can remove or disconnect the SATA dri've and restore the system to the condition before you installed it, that's another good test.Message Edited by Katman on 2-8-2005 2:56 AM

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The Platinum dri've works fine otherwise. I can use the firewire port on it and I know it's receiving power because I can see the red light in the optical connector. To be sure, I went back inside my computer and doublechecked the connections. It IS hooked up properly.
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The other problem seems to be more serious.
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Http://file4.mydrivers.com/files/sound/A2-ZS-PAX.exe
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Hi there! Well I have been trying to use the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs video editor to transfer Hi8 tapes from my camcorder (Samsung SLC860) to my laptop (Compaq presario, AMD Athlon 64 3200+, .25 GB RAM, xp). I have successfully done this before *sort of*. Before i was able to capture video from my camcorder without the sound. But now I cant even capture video! I get an error when using Ulead VideoStudio 8 SE reading: 5065:29:0. Please help, anything would be great! Thank you! Oh, i've tried reinstalling the drivers already, didnt work. P.S. I connect the camcorder to the Creative Audigy using S-Video. I have also tried A/V out from the camcorder to video-in on the Audigy. I have also downloaded VidCap and other driver updates from Creative but those didn't work either. I've tried VidCap other capture programs, none worked. Any help would be great. Thank you!
Message Edited by DjShadowalker on 06-06-2006 :09 AM
Message Edited by DjShadowalker on 06-06-2006 :09 AM

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When I REMOVE the soundcard - everything is fine, NO BSOD.
I tried different Audigy 2 drivers, but they all give the same result. This did not happen on my old ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe 2.0, and the soundcard was in PCI Slot 5 as well. I tried to format, and etc., - same thing if the soundcard is in the PCI slot!
I have PCI lock ENABLED (AGP set to 67Mhz, and PCI LOCK DETECTION set to ENABLED).
How do I fix this problem?

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Originally posted by MonarchX
I have PCI lock ENABLED (AGP set to 67Mhz, and PCI LOCK DETECTION set to ENABLED).
When you said that you have PCI lock enabled and PCI lock detection enabled, were you talking about the same thing? If not, where in the BIOS is the PCI lock? I could only find PCI Lock Detection.

CD Audio problems on K7N2-L Delta with Audigy 2

In case anyone else is having the same problem with machine lock ups and inability to play CD's in Media Player 9 when this motherboard is installed I thought I would report my solution.
Symptoms; CD Plays for a few seconds, then sound cuts out, then comes back a few seconds later (or machine locks up).
Solution; Close PC Alert(System Tray motherboard monitor).
This solved the problem on my machine.
My machine has also been locking up a lot, I will report back if this has cured that too, though I have another thread on that problem (just search for my name).
Whilst we are on the subject of PC Alert, there is a problem with this in Win XP Home SP1 when using more than one user. If you log on a second user when the first user has not signed off, you get an error when PC Alert tries to start and the second user will not be able to run the alert software. (NB Asus's Probe software suffers from the same problem)
Can one of you moderators add all this to your bug lists and report it back to MSI?
Kit on my machine as follows;
MSI K7N2-L Delta (5.2. Bios)
2 x 256MB PC2700 Ram (Corsair).
AMD Athlon XP (Barton) 2500+
Geforce 4 TI 4200 (8X AGP) 44.03 Drivers
Audigy 2 (Latest Drivers)
TV Card (Happaugue PCI Nicam)
Memorex 32x CD-RW
LG DVD Rom
IBM 80GB Hard Disk
IBM 40GB Hard Disk
Network - NVidia - on Motherboard.
Win XP Home SP1 + all patches.
The sound on the Nvidia MB is disabled, as is the parrallel port and serial port

Hi Stephen!
I really hope this works out because im having the same problems that you are having. Lock ups and freezes in games. I have been looking in the inet for days to find a fix. i also narrowed it down to my Audigy 2 sound card. If i take it out everything runs fine. I tried all sorts of things that were written in the Creative forums but nothing worked. The strange thing is that it doesnt always happen. Yesterday i was playing all day long and not one single crash. Today i booted up and had a lock up with screeching sound while playing. I really do hope it is just the MSI software because i was really thinking about exchanging this board for something else. Cant imagine it just being the software. It would be to easy..hehe. I dont really want to give up my Audigy 2 card because its a great card. Awsome sound for games. What PCI port do you have your Audigy 2 card in now? I have mine in 2 and my Network card in Slot 3. In the User´s guid i think it says there that PCI slot 2 and 3 are not shared. Not really sure to be honest. Never really had probs with other mainboards. I put the devices in and they worked. I never really had live update 3 running and still had lock ups but do have PC alert running which i just shut down. Hope it works out for us both. Gonna go try some Raven Shield now and see if it crashes. Thanks for the tipp.

MSI KT3 Ultra ARU 5.7 BIOS and SoudBlaster Cards - Audigy

I have flashed my BIOS to 5.7 Version and my sound card start to make a lot of noise (crackling) when play AC3 or DVD. If you dont want to use the new AMD CPU 333 FSB you dont need to flash the BIOS - I have Flashed to 5.6 again but, if you want to use a 333 FSB CPU you can flash the BIOS to version 5.7 and if have sound problems use the PCI latency patch for VIA chipsets.
VIA chipset MotherBoard owners who have through all of the above and still have sound problems with their Soundblaster cards, might want to look into the PCI latency patch for VIA chipsets - get it here:
http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/
(scroll down the page there just a little to get to it).
There's also a similar page about resolving sound problems on Via chipset based computers here:
http://www.deinmeister.de/mvp3_zlt_e.htm
I hope this post help somebody
Mário Silva from Beja - Portugal
My System:
MSI KT3 Ultra ARU
Athlon 2400+
512 Kingston PC2700 DDR SDRAM
MSI Geforce4 Ti 4200
SoundBlaster Audigy
Windows xp Pro SP1
400W PSU
Creative Drx3
Pinnacle PCTV pro
HDD Maxtor 80 GB UDMA 133
DVD Pioneer slot in
RW Samsung 48x16x48
Creative WebCam Go
UPS 500 VA
Monitor Sony 19" E400E

Since my chip is an unlocked, I cannot easily run it at the default, but I can underclock it. At 100x6.0=600mhz, USB does not work, as well as 100x12.5. Same with 133x6.0 and 133x12.5. It appears to make no difference underclocking or overclocking.
I downloaded the right BIOS listed on MSI's KT3 Ultra-ARU page. I don't think the BIOSes are different anyway, since the same files, changelog, and etc are also listed for the Ultra-2 board.
A thing to note, that this is the onboard VIA-controller USB ports doing this. My Ultra-ARU's NEC-controller USB 2.0 ports work fine in both Win2k and Linux if I hook my mouse and keyboard up in those. This is not an ideal solution for me though.

How do i use a mic with audigy

I have an audigy 2zs platinum pro, and the external hub (or whatever you wanna call it) is hooked up. I've plugged in my headset into "headphones" and the mic into "line in /mic in"
When i speak i can clearly hear what my mic pics up, and when i try speaking over xfire or voip, the other person doesn't hear anything except what i hear from my headphones.
I know i did something wrong and i'd appreciate help.

ok so playing around with it, i think i fixed it. in the surround mixer i turn off the source line in , and then select line in for rec?

Creative Audigy Platinum Installation Help with Pentium 4 3.2GHz HT Enab

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Dear Fellows,I have recently upgraded to a new Pentium 4 machine. The config is as follows:Pentium 4 3.2eGHz MB cache HT (Hyper-Threading Enabled)Intel Original 865GBF MainboardGB Kingston DDR 400MHz RAM20GB SATA WD HDDSound Blaster Audigy PlatinumATI RADEON 8500 DV 64MBThe problem I am facing is with Audigy Platinum. Once I install the operating system (Win XP) and move to the installation of Creative Audigy Platinum Sound card. All the applications are installed and the system hangs while updating *drivers*. I restarted but it corrupts the whole operating system conflicting with Display Driver, Mainboard driver as well as Windows. CD/DVD Rom also disappear. I then reinstalled operating system again. I would like to request for help and solving this issue and I dont want to get rid of Creative Audigy. I have heard complaints with Hyper-threading technology but I disabled it and the same problem occured. I tried everything e.g. latest drivers from Creative website, BIOS updates, Driver updates etc etc. The problem starts once the drivers are to be updated for Creative Audigy Platinum.Anticipating your response soon.Regards,

Hi Jeremy,
I would like to thank you for your kind assistance with my problem.
Heres the good news, I finally managed to install and run my Creative Audigy Platinum perfectly.
Credit goes to your assitance and support.
For your info, I would like you to know what I really did.
I have an Intel Genuine 865GBF mainboard. I installed clean copy of Windows XP (SP) and downloaded and installed latest Chipset INF utility from Intel website. I guess this utility tells the mainboard what kind of hardware is configured on the board.
Please note that I did not add any PCI card except the AGP graphics card.
After finishing Windows XP, I installed the Creative Audigy Card in a different PCI slot. When windows started, it detected the sound card installed.
I simply ran the driver and programs from the Creative CD and it installed perfectly. I then updated the drivers downloaded from the Sound Blaster site in correct order.
After finishing with Creative Audigy Platinum installation. I installed other hardware devices, service packs, AV and applications.
Its the third day and everything is running well.
I just wrote the steps if someone else faces the same problem, he/she can sort it out the same way.
Thanks again for your help.
Best regards,

Audigy Platinum Pro does not work for microphone!!! CREATIVE HE

I recently bought the Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro mainly for guitar recording. The external unit that i plug my guitar into plays alright through the LINE IN 2 (I find it works better when you don't put a line out to your amp), though not spectacular, but does not play at all through the LINE IN which is designated mainly for a microphone (which i use for acoustic guitars). Even when I try plugging the mic in LINE IN 2 I have to scream to make it just register, and when I do it sounds fuzzy and barely audible. When I first bought it a fortnight ago it seemed to work ok, there appears nothing wrong with my sound blasters and i have tried the recording on a number of different software programs.
The recording dial is cranked and although i don't seem to have the option to use the mic boost which seems strange as it is a powerful computer, the recording level on the sound desktop does not make a difference.
Can anybody help me with this? Is CREATIVE aware that this is common complaint and are avoiding the issue?
Is it something wrong with the hardware or the operating system - Windows XP Home?
If so, should I take the soundcard back? The recording capabilities were the reason i bought this card!

Update.....
Anyway, to resolve this problem (after some discussion direct with Creative Support) I discovered that there is a trick in the Creative Surround Mixer that is not explained (at all) in the documentation, not is it very intuiti've.
In the part of the mixer with all the sliders the box on the left (ie. vol, bass, treble) is the master speaker volume, the box on the right with the single slider is the recording level (the icon above the slider selects the source) and all the sliders between the two boxes control the levels of each source going to the speakers. To ensure a pure recording and prevent any of the input sources going to the speakers you will need to mute any input devices you have connected in this section.
To put it simply, if you don't want your microphone input to go to the speakers mute them in the mixer. Only the single slider in the box on the right hand side of the mixer panel will set recording levels.
Hope this hel
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