Audigy 2 zs Hardware mixing problem

Hi, i'm using xp64 with 2gb ram, and after upgrade to 4gb my audigy 2zs (accord to everest and dxdiag) stops suppord hardware mixing and reporting 0 buffers instead of 64 and no eax support,? so is it driver/soundcard or other hardware problem?

'I'm not an engineer, but my life experience tells me that it's a driver issue. Do you use alternati've drivers? They are known to work like this. Creative drivers should work fine with your hardware. Have you tried the latest update by Creative from April 200?

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I am hoping that someone out there can help me in a crucial situation.
I am using an Audigy 2 sound card with creative 5. speakers.
I also use Adobe Audition to edit, record sessions for my voice-over jobs.
Recently, I attempted to hook up a web cam so that I could see my grand daughter on the west coast.
After hooking up the web cam, I noticed my home studio environment changed drastically. I began having trouble with recording using my microphone through my Macki mixer. I began hearing a continuous hiss that I had never experienced before.
In fact after uninstalling the web cam, and restarting my computer, I got that horrible blue screen on my computer indicating the world was about to end! Smile
Long story short, I was able to finally get my computer back up, but I continue to experience problems recording "clean' audio".
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Also, when trying to test my sound hardware I get a message stating...Direct play voice setup..."an error occurred during direct play voice setup....error code 0x80004005
Last but not least I cannot access the "Creative diagnostic feature on my computer. I only get a small window for this feature that will not open up fully and allow me to run a diagnostic test!
I know this is a lot to absorb, but I cannot get anyone from Creative to address my problems because I am out of warranty and therefore not getting any love from this company.
Need your advice and or guidance on this.
Please respond when time allows.
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Re: Audigy 2 sound card problems? use add/remove programs and remove all creative software and drivers, then do the same for your web cam and unplug it
restart your pc
download and install [url="http://downloads.guru3d.com/Guru3D---Driver-Sweeper-%28Setup%29-download-655.html" rel="nofollow">driver sweeper[/url] and use it to clean up any left over creative bits and bobs and restart your pc when it asks you to
now download and install the [url="http://support.creative.com/Products/product_list.aspx?catID=&CatName=Sound+Blaster" rel="nofollow">latest audigy drivers[/url]
once your back in to windows try recording something and see if everything's back to normal
now reinstalling your web cam but don't reinstall using the cd that came with it
find the manufacturer's website and get the latest drivers
install cd's best avoided simply because the software and drivers they contain are typically the initial release versions, and so potentially very old
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Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
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Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
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Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
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Hmmm. Had a play to try and fix my card problems and now made things much worse.
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I hope you can understand my english, 'cause I'm german!
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What I am doing wrong? Message Edited by snoop on 02-23-200604:2 AM
Message Edited by snoop on 02-23-200604:22 AM

Hhm I can't understand that!
There is also a "what you heare" available as the record-source. That thing records everything (incoming and outgoing).
With every (simple) onboard-Soundcard I used I could record from the line-in while playing something other to the line-out and all was idenpently. Also I could turn the playback-volume (from the line-in) to zero while the record-volume is still at the position it's needed for recording and it worked.
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Only the Mic-In can be recorded this way but I can't use the Mic-In for my Radio-Signals because it's too strong.Message Edited by snoop on 02-23-200604:23 AM
Message Edited by snoop on 02-23-200604:24 AM

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http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6834/audigy2pw.jpg
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