EAX options dissape

Hi, I was setting up my EAX settings to my Audigy 2 ZS ( got Cosonic 5. Home theater headphones ) I set it up to Environment Garage and changed the CMSS 3D to the 2nd option i think it was.
While i was mixing around with the diff settings i was listening to music so i could hear wich was best. So after i found some perfect settings wich gave me really good sound i started my Counter Strike game ( same for other games bfore also ) and when i started it all my EAX settings dissapeared and now when i check in the options i can only click the square where it says use EAX but the options that u select ( environment etc ) is completely gone.. anyone know what the problem might be ? i wanna be able to use my EAX in games wich was the reason i bought my A 2 ZS
Edit: btw they come back everytime i update my EAX with web update but i dont wanna update/reboot my pc after every time i've played a game
thx in advanceMessage Edited by Danne on 09-4-2005 05:06 PM

I had this problem also and solved it by reinstalling the drivers, and selecting "Overwrite Creative shared files". You will have to extract the drivers first, go into the drivers directory and run the setup from there to have this option appear.
Always have this option selected when playing around with drivers otherwise a lot of files will remain, some of them incompatible with the driver version you are installing. This is also true for OpenAL games, if you do not select this option, they will either run in software mode or not run at all!

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