Audigy 2 ZS driver probl

I've had a 2 ZS for a while now and?decided to reinstall?Windows XP after purchasing a much bigger hard dri've. After installing all system drivers (chipset, video, etc.)?for everything else on my system and running Windows update, I go to install the Audigy drivers and?it locks up my system /2?way though the install. The hard dri've light will stay light the whole time until it eventually reboots the computer and goes through the same process once Windows starts back up. It is basically a never ending loop. Now, I've had several Creative products over the years and have usually been able to deal with their buggy drivers, but this time I'm completely stumped on what to do. I'm on my 3rd Windows reinstall because of this problem and have tried just about everything I can think of short of?throwing?the card away and?heading over to Best Buy to purchase a Turtle Beach product. :angry:?Anyone ever run into this? Any suggestions?

BigBoss. From all the reading I did and the questions that I asked Creative, including using the X-Fi driver, the word from the top really is that it isn't recommended. It's just not a supported configuration. It may work, but I'm betting there may be some problems like your seeing now. I just downloaded and installed the latest drivers that do support the Audigy 2ZS card, and so far (knock on wood), everything seems to be working extremely well.
I decided to download the driver first and let the install do its thing. When it couldn't erase all the driver files, obviously because they were still acti've, I rebooted in safe mode and ran DriverCleaner Pro. It removed all the rest of the files. Rebooted normally and continued the installation. So far, as I've said, all is good! But I'll keep testing to see for sure. Good luck!

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Hello,
Recently my creative speaker settings and all my THX controls stopped working. I removed all my drivers, then reinstalled the following from the creative website.
. Creative Sound Blaster Audigy, Audigy 2 series and Audigy 4 series Driver 02.08.0004
This reinstalled the creative media center as well as the creative audio console, but it did not install the Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS folder or application etc, which is what has all the Creative Speaker Settings and THX control and all the other creative options. I tried using the driver installation disc which came with the soundcard, but although it shows the creative settings/ THX control installed, whenever i try to open those applications, I get an error message saying that it cannot open that audio device, install audio drivers. I searched for the right drivers and even did the automatic updater, yet it did not work.
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Even using just the CD drivers, shouldn't the applications still work?
right now when I try to open creative speaker settings I get the error:
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Even using just the CD drivers, shouldn't the applications still work?
right now when I try to open creative speaker settings I get the error:
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PAX PCI Audigy All-OS-Driver V2.60 EAX Fully works now Please redownload.

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Audigy 2 OEM installation probl

Hi all,
Basically im here to moan and complain :P
Bought audigy 2 card from overlcockers.co.uk
installed into machine, machine recognised new audio control card, cant wait i think to myself whilst i enjoy 24 bit sound rather than crappy realtek 97 on board audio i using.
Now to get drivers, go to soundblaster.com click on auto update web finds i have the audigy 2 card installed and recomends the right set of drivers.
go to install them and get error message saying "Setup can not find the required set of components, etc etc", hmmmm i thought to myself.
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Changed PCI slots, tried different drivers, reformated PC, etc etc. Everything some one has mentioned on a forum i have tried.
So i emailed creative, "Sorry sir, but you can not get this working without the original installtion CD, we have no working drivers for this card on the website, only updates"
Great, whats the friggin point of selling an OEM with no CD when you need the CD to get it working?
Im friggin pissed, if anyone can send me an iso of the cd (which i have found on the net but it downloads at 0k a second and its 566 meg big) can you email me at [email][email protected]][email protected][/url]
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VERY UNHAPPY CUSTOMER, i will be really happy if some one at creative does something for me so i can get the soundcard working.

Thanks guys for responding to my post,
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The guide of how to properly install the soundblaster drivers i've already tried to no avail just to find the same "Setup did not find the required set of hardware on your machine" error message.
Im now sitting in my mates bedroom with my PC set up (having a LAN :P), and tried his audigy oem installation CD and still i get the same error message (just to remind you i have the audigy 2 OEM card, hey it was worth a try)
Im now at the point where i cant get my hands on an audigy 2 OEM CD as the helpdesk from soundblaster has refered me to my "vendor" and its now the weekened and they arent open till monday.
To say im furious is a bit of an understatement as i now have to use my realtek 97 onboard sound and has ruined my LAN party.
Im now contemplating purchasing a retail card from PC World and putting the OEM card back in the box and taking it back to PCWorld for a refund LOL.
My advice, dont purchase an OEM card PERIOD.

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.Re: great!!! thank you robert!!?4 ?
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great!!!
thank you robert!!?
Your welcome. I tested this on my 3rd bro computer using my old audigy 2 card. Both CMSS and 2 does work. Over weekend at least I got see my nephew .

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& What did you especially fix or add? I have surfed all around in gameheaven forums and other places but the only thing you wrote is" better performance, better exelaration etc" . I dont think it is enough , you HAVE TO tell which software modules you added or what you have tweaked.
If I were you I would take a look at Daniel_k's threads and take them as reference before posting..................

SB Audigy 4 Driver Probl

At least, I *think* it's a driver problem. Let me start from the beginning.
Just about every other time I start up my PC, my SB Audigy 4 (Retail) runs into a problem. That is, the nice Exclamation Point shows up, and it doesn't see it as a SB Audigy 4, but rather a "Multimedia Audio Controller" (MAC for short). So I uninstall the MAC, reboot (note, at reboot, it shows it as a Creative Soundblaster Audigy Audio Processor, still with the yellow exclamation point next to it, and still with (CODE 0) attached, and install the SBAX_WEBUP_LB_2_08_0004.exe drivers. (Why, oh why does it only come in EXE format? What happened to the Good old days of .inf files?)
Pic Follows:
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I install, and everything goes well. I reboot, and my Sound drivers are there, so I can play my favorite games. But, the next time I reboot my PC, I'll have lost my Sound Drivers again --- though it doesn't happen every time, but I can't go more than 2 reboots without it happening again.
I'm really getting tired of reinstalling these drivers on every boot up. Does anyone have the skinny?
My system details follow:
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (333mhz Barton)
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Microsoft Windows XP Professional w/SP2 and all updates.
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Thanks for that tip, that may make it so I don't have to do stupid things to get it to see the driver.
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PS: I use windows XP and if you need any more info just request it from me.Message Edited by Nick345 on 02-28-200605:05 PM

JRe: Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum - Speaker issues not covered by FAQs0 I'm afriad that the CMSS3D option did not work? ? I still cannot get any speakers to play out of the rear of the soundcard.
As I said before, the goal is to try to get sound to play out of both the headset and the speakers attached to the rear of the soundcard simuntaneously.
The headset is plugged into one of those devices in the front that is in a 5 & /4" bay that has the individual knobs for adjusting volume for the headset and outbound levels for the microphone.
The speakers are plugged into the back of the soundcard and do not play any sound in any of the sockets, starting from the firewire port and counting 3 over.
Any suggestions? I? thought it might have something to do with the setting of the speakers from control panel - > Sounds and Audio Devices -> Advanced and picking the right choice there. No luck however. Same for the Creative Speaker Settings as well.
I'm at wits end and I'd be very thankful to whoever can resolve this for me. =)

SB audigy LS driver probl

i have had this card for a while and it was working for almost a year untill last nightand it started saying this not just surround mixer but all of the programs and NOTHING that has sound is working...
---------------------------Surround Mixer---------------------------The audio device supported by this application is not detected. The application will exit.---------------------------OK --------------------------- i cant play any sound i have clean sweeped
i ran the diagnostics program and this says this..
Hardware detection pass
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---------------------------Creative Diagnostics---------------------------The current problem cannot be fixed automatically. Reinstall the software of your audio hardware to see if your problem can be solved.---------------------------OK ---------------------------i have spent fun hours uninstalling and reinstalling this.....
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Hello I purchased an Audigy platnum 2 from a friend with the li've dri've. Everything is installed, updated drivers from creative's website and I still cannot get the li'vedri've to function properly. Headphones work fine, microphone does not. Neither does firewire port. When I plug into the card on the backside of the PC everything works fine, but I really would like to get the li'vedri've up and running for the convenience. The mic sounds really weak and muffled when I try to record in Audition or soundbooth and just when it is plugged in it has the same muffled light sound. Any help would be appreciated.
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To summarise everything worked ok for a period of time, then, when attempting to use the headphones (which had worked prevoiusly) there was no sound. Further investigation revealed that the remote, mic 2 and aux in 2 (which also worked previously?) also did not work but a red light still shows in optical out. You have tested these using the surround mixer to select the appropriate inputs.
The red light in optical out shows you have power and connectivity to the card also they appear in the mixer ( if I understand your initial post correctly) which shows the card detects the front bay.
This is difficult to comment on as everything seems to be as it should be. Please confirm in detail that my understanding is correct.
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those drivers have really big problems, in BF2 it has its problems as u know, freezes and when there are a lot voices and sound it laggy but sometimes not so much.
for example in the game SAS Anti Terror Force, and StarShip Troopers the FPS new game, the games Freeze, stuck, and have sound issues, and the game : The Movies has sound problems too, the music suddently and sometimes turn off and on.
anyone tried and has the same synptoms?
i dont want to go back to .84.55 , they dont support nothing,, .

Never mind about my previous post. Found the answer on another forum. CMSS does not upmix like ProLogic. All it does is put echoes/reverb in the other speakers besides L/R (pretty worthless if you ask me).
To get real ProLogic type upmix, all I did was disable CMSS altogether. Then I installed DTS NEO 6 and enabled it in Cinema mode. All my music was then upmixed just like ProLogic. Voices to the center speaker, instruments to L/R, echoes to the rear channels, and bass signals to the subwoofer.
Lesson learned: Do not look for answers on manufacturer forums. These are just gripe pages. Hope this helps somebody with the same problem though.

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> I recently bought a used Audigy 2 ZS which works fine with the drivers from the CD. I don't know how old they are, Creative System Informations says driver version .82.0. That's why i wanted to update them. I had a Li've! before, so i knew how to update the drivers with the auto updater on the creative site. By the way, i did a clean up of the old drivers with Driver Sweeper before installing the new sound card.
When i do a driver update with the auto updater on the Creative website it downloads and install the newer drivers, but after the mandatory reboot i have no sound, and every Tool crashes, throws an error message or just doesn't work. I lose all my EAX effects and can't select any speakers. The only way to solve that is to uninstall everything and do a clean start with the CD.
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Hi,
After reading thru several posts in different forums, I still have one question:
What (the heck) is the purpose of the "SB Audigy 4 24/96" ASIO driver mode? I can't record anything when I select that, in Logic 5 for Windows. With the normal driver "SB Audigy 4 ASIO", it's fine. The card has a good sound, and nice software, but this doesn't work... I also find that more often than not, the reply to these types of messages is something like "get another soundcard". Well, no thanks! The non-pro Audigy 4 is actually the single most expensive piece of hardware inside my PC (except the processor maybe?).
What's more, the on-line documentation states that the card has ASIO2 support for 24-bit/96kHz recording, the feature that I want to use, but how?

I don't know about Logic,but i had that issue with cubase sx and my audigy 2zs (i guess they are similar cards). When i choose Asio 24/96 it mutes the Line-in in creative mixer, so there is no sound incoming to cubase.
Solution for me:
- open cubase and select asio 24/96;
- with cubase still opened go to creative mixer and unmute Line-in (check also if you have Analog Mix as the recording source);
- set the Line-in level in creative mixer to the amount i want (usually 0db);
- then return to cubase and activate Analog Mix in the "Vst input" menu;
- add an audio track, arm it to record, check the input source (it must be Analog Mix), activate monitoring and hit record.
Now i'm recording with asio 24/96 and monitoring all the effects i want in that track.
Note: When you choose asio 24/96 your card inputs will be reduced. With my audigy 2zs i'll have only 3 input sources and the only one that's used to record with asio 24/96 is Analog Mix (Line in).
Hope this will help you.

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