Audigy 2 zs installation

hi all , got the audigy 2 zs retail. seem to be having problems since i got it. after installing the drivers some games dont recognise it (like eax wont enable). some just dont play music at times. and when i look at the description of the sound card it says "SB Audig Audio[A000]", this is in control panel (sound and audio devices) also. even in winamp. i installed the drivers twice after a clean sweep, last time with creative's help. i thought i come here before geting the run around again with them. i have a feeling that the card is not working at optimal level(maybe only at the audigy levelor something) like the descrition it gives. anyone else have this problem. i have it in my #2 pci slot . # and #3 is empty(before #3 had a realtek ethernet card, i took it out after installing the audigy the first time to free up the pci slots but the driver wont uninstall though, it keeps comming back after the reboot). ill get the motherboard spec later i have to contact COMPAQ in the morning for that. till then any idea would help me.

musicman53 wrote:
"it says "SB Audig Audio[A000]", this is in control panel (sound and audio devices) also. even in winamp."
That's what it is supposed to say.
Same on mine as well and everything here works ok.
What do you expect it to say?
If it's installed correctly, device manager should ID the card as Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM). If you have other listing like SB Audig Audio then it's most probably using Windows nati've driver and not Creative driver. I bet your other Creative application cannot be launch and would tell you that cannot detect the correct hardware and similar stuff.

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