Fixed my crackling, popping Soundblaster Live 5.1 Wi

I have had just about all the bad things happen with my soundcard since my reformat of my computer last week. I wanted to do this because my speakers were crackling extremely bad in Half-Life 2. So bad , that I haven't gotten past the first level on this $90.00 Collectors edition game. Problems I ran into trying to install this card.
. Downloaded Uni-driver pack from website= no soundblaster card found
2. Using my original cd= mixer failed in creative diagnostics (2 other ones failed but I can't recall what they were)
3. Using the CTzapp.exe ( not sure of the spelling) on the disk=hardware failed on creative diagnostics
4. Used Kx drivers= sounded great but had a hard time adjusting mic for Teamspeak
5. Install would get to 95% then reboot my computer for some reason
6. Crackling sound in Half-Life 2 and in other games, etc.
I think you are getting the picture. I used driver cleaner each time I tried something new. Installed drivers in safe mode. Tinkered with all the settings. Changed IRQ settings in Bios. Changed pci slot the card was in. Was about to give up, but I still had one more option left to try. My friend has a soundblaster Li've 5. card also. I thought I would try his cd. Guess what? It worked.
I noticed during the install, his cd would get done installing the drivers and then it would say updating direct x drivers. Mine never got this far. Also his cd would get all the way done and then ask me to reboot. So I rebooted and low and behold, eveything works. All Creative tests pass, and everything seems good.
Got to thinking, and looking. The uni-driver is dated Feb of 2003. The driver from my cd, when looking in device manager would say June ( 6th I believe) of 2003. His driver says August 28th, 2003. version 5.2..296. I think this is the driver people should try to find if they experience crackling or popping sounds. So far it seems to be working great. Half-li've 2 is crackle free, where as before my computer sounded like a bowl of Rice Crispies.
Anyway I was wondering why the uni-driver is dated older than both drivers on our cds? Also is there a place where maybe users here can download the driver with the 5.2..296 version number on it's It worked great for me. Good luck out there.

I've been struggling with Flash9d.ocx crashes and random BSODsfor a month or so now when playing online videos (youtube, etc) andwhen my daughter plays online flash enabled games. SometimesI've even had BSODs when the pc was just sitting there !!?Turns out the problem was due to a "bum" Soundblaster Li've! 24-bit"driver being distributed via Windows update. After a long night of disabling just about everything on the PCand then one-by-one re-enabling things, I have traced my problemto the SoundBlaster Li've 24-bit driver. I recently updated this driver via Windows Update to a version released in Jul-07(I forget the exact version number).
When I dropped the driver back to the version which came on the OEM diskswith my PC, my problem cleared up. I. am now running version 5.2..35with a date of Jun-9-2004 without an issue. Hope this hel
ps.
Mike.

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I'm kind of cranky about this problem. Read on because I actually know exactly what the problem is (at least for most of us and only Creative/EMU can fix it).
Background
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The problem is not my motherboard, BIOS, other hardware, Windows or other applications. Over the years this EMU board has been in many different systems, many different configurations and the evolution from WinXP, Vista and now to Win7. The crackling problem has always been exactly the same. The problem is the board itself, not the system and not the configuration and I can prove it (read on).
Another thing that frustrates me is all the time that so many users have spent trying to troubleshoot this issue that is completely wasted since, for some of us, the problem is in the EMU hardware/drivers. That's not to say that there aren't some other crackling problems that are related to the system speed, interfering hardware or interfering software. There are actually two different problems that both have the same crackling symptom which makes all this quite confusing. I'll call them "System Related" and "EMU Hardware/Driver Related". If you're having the crackling symptom you should figure out which type of problem you have before spending hours troubleshooting, reinstalling, etc, etc, etc. Here's how:
If your crackling problem:
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- Starts with a few minor crackle/pops per second and gradually gets progressively worse over several minutes with nothing else changing in the system (ie not running new software or changing anything).
- After a while (can be a long while) the crackling can actually go away again and you have clean audio. Then the crackling returns. Once again with no changes in system load in between.
- You can make the crackling go away instantly and every time by simply resetting the clock on the card. There are several ways to do this. In Patchmix go to the System tab under Session Settings and switch the clock between internal/external (whatever you have it on, go to the other and back again). Another way is the change the ASIO Buffer Latency milliseconds in your host software's ASIO control panel.
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EMU SUPPORT please let your product manager know that this is what is going on and that he should ask your contract driver engineers to implement this type of solution. Yes, it will cost more in development time (and hence $$$), but it will fix the issue once and for all and not just for this card. You can re-use the code in other drivers.
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