Audigy 2 ZS Pl and BF2. Arr

Question

I have an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum and have been having a lot of problems with sound in BF2.
It started a couple weeks ago, my sound would crackle and pop a lot. Then it started making really loud screeching noises. After playing for a few hours the sound in the game would start to lag along with the game a little after.
I was told that these new drivers came out, so decided to try them out.
I uninstalled all my old stuff and ran driver cleaner pro.
Installed the new drivers having high hopes. Everything seemed fine and voice is being heard using the mic.
I start up BF2 and all seems ok. I go in to check my volume in the audio options and IT DOESN'T WORK! I press the start tests and nothing is coming through! I play with all the settings, turning off EAX, using software instead of hardware, minimize the game and check the audio options, Nothing fixes it! I go into the BF2 folder and run the VOIP setup test and that works fine. I tried reinstalling the drivers, and that did nothing.
Also, whenever I enter a server, i get this loud sort of pop/crackle noise right before I start playing.
This is the only thing I have done to change the computer and it was working before. So this has to be the problem.
I tried doing what some wrote on here about replacing the file and that has not done anything.
Anyone else having the same problems and getting tired of this not working?Message Edited by Pennybags on 02-0-2006 0:53 AM

Answer 1

Yes, I had this squealing start after I updated from the drivers from 2003 including on my CD that I got in my Audigy 2 platinum I got around December, the squealing was not so common and only happened occasionally, I thought my speakers were dying or my sound card, I ignored it. Then today I installed the 'brand new' drivers, and the squealing/crashing/losing gunfire sounds (etc.) happens WHENEVER more than 4 or 5 noises are played at once, I figured out what causes it for me. When you throw a grenade it's supposed to deafen you with a high pitched sound, but with the new drivers it doesn't deafen you with that sound it merely stops making the noises it was supposed to deafen (gunshots from your gun). Try it and let me know if you notice the same. I find this problem mostly unrelated to the squealing/screeching, and a new problem with the new drivers. I emailed creative about this today and I hope they fix it NOW.
IT'S SO ANNOYING TO HAVE SPENT MONEY ON A 200$ CARD (00$ REBATE, no wonder why!), and have it not work for the very game it's official partner created. Do any of these companies actually work together or is it just a marketing scam, it was the same for everquest 2 and nvidia, they were the worst pair. What's with this?
I guess next I'll try to install it with the 2003 drivers maybe it'll be less frequent a problem, or I'll switch to onboard sound.
This is the letter I sent to creative BTW:
Purchase Date: 2-20-2005
AMD 64bit 3500+ (Winchester Core)
2.20ghz
024mb Corsair XMS Low Latency PC3200 in 52mb x2
05.005 ASUS
ASUS A8N Sli-Deluxe (nvidia nforce 4)
I upgraded the drivers on my software to your most recent driver for the SB Audigy 2 ZS Platinum (SBAX_WEBUP_LB_2_08_0004.exe) from your website, released January of 2006. After installing it I had a massi've amount of problem with intensi've applications such as games. For Example: In Battlefield 2, a game made "supposedly" with the collaboration of Creative has massi've crashes and audio scrambling (high pitched SCREECHING sounds, cracking, crackling, whirring, and all manner of garbled and insane sounds), this did not happen frequently with any of the previous drivers (but it did happen month after getting the product).
I am concerned that either your drivers are faulty (which is odd because you are a partner of DICE, the company who produced Battlefield 2 and supposed to Explicitly support that game), or my hardware is faulty/defecti've. Your website does not list previous driver revisions and gives no solution for this problem.
What I have tried to remedy the problem:
. Uninstalled and reinstalled various programs that were having problems (battlefield 2, etc.)
(Problem Persisted)
2. Uninstalled the Drivers and Audigy 2 card and reinstalled the newest drivers availible on your site. (Problem Persisted)
3. Tested my onboard sound card with the problem programs, and my ONBOARD SOUND CARD Works FINE with those programs. Turned off my onboard sound and tried my Creative Audigy z2 platinum card. (Problem Persisted!!!)
Please assist me in this problem, I am dissapointed that my free onboard sound device works better than a 200$ soundcard I bought from your company with programs that your company Creative is officially partnered with, and since it is not the programs causing the problem explicitly for all sound cards, it must be your card.