Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro Sound Distortion + Full System Cr

System Specs:
Audigy 2ZS Platinum Pro running driver version 2.2.0002
Pentium D 3.0 Ghz
ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
2 Gb PQI 667MHZ DDR 2 RAM
XFX GeForce 7900GTX
I am a music producer/dj and use my sound card quite extensi'vely, since upgrading to Vista I have experienced more and more sound distortion as time goes on. The distortion mainly occurs in Direct Sound applications such as mp3 players (Winamp, Windows Media Player) as well as when playing compressed avi files which also utilise mp3 compression.
Using ASIO enabled production applications such as Fruity Loops Studio 7 does not cause as much distortion although it still occurs at some points resulting in a system freeze and a BSOD.
When distortion occurs sound becomes as what i can only describe as "computerized" and CPU usage goes up dramatically to the point where mouse movement on the screen becomes really jumpy if playing wave data this progresses until the system freezes if however I close winamp or another app playing direct sound CPU usage drops and system becomes stable again until an mp3 or any wave data is played again.
I have tried some of the possible solutions posted on these forums such as turning off enhancements such as CSS and changing the output quality but so far none of these have been successful.
I have managed to get everything else working fine in Vista apart from sound. If anyone has any recommendations as to what I could do to fix this problem it would be greatly appreciated.Message Edited by euphoria_aus on 04-03-200707:5 AM

Decrip,
The lineouts on the card are functioning as long as digital output only is not enabled. So this should work.
Jeremy

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