Please help me CREATIVE !!! Audigy 2 ZS causes hiccup/stutter/freeze during game p

HI,
During game play it would freeze (or stutter) for about sec and then back to normal and this happens about every -2 mins, if I take out the audigy sound card then the prob goes away
It didn't used to do this or at least I wasn;t aware of until I ran a program called PCI Latency Tool 2.0 to test different settings of the PCI latency timer and all hell broke loose. Ive tried reloadingh the BIOS and reimaging the partition to the state where everything used to work but to no avail
I look at the IRQ table in WIn XP and the AGP card & the Audigy are sharing the same IRQ but I guess this is normal for WIn XP
I have no spyware running in the background, no USB game pad/controller plugged in, AGAIN the prob goes away when I take out the sound card
I only have AGP and PCI slot, I have a mini motherboard
My spec:
P4 3. Ghz
GB PC3500 Kingston
Audigy 2 ZS
NVIDIA 6600GT
Maxtor SATA 60 GB
Windows XP Pro with SP2
DirectX 9.0c
Latest Creative Driver
Message Edited by webaccount on <SPAN class=date_text>0-5-2005 <SPAN class=time_text>04:43 AM
Message Edited by webaccount on 0-5-2005 04:45 AM

HI,
During game play it would freeze (or stutter) for about sec and then back to normal and this happens about every -2 mins, if I take out the audigy sound card then the prob goes away
It didn't used to do this or at least I wasn;t aware of until I ran a program called PCI Latency Tool 2.0 to test different settings of the PCI latency timer and all hell broke loose. Ive tried reloadingh the BIOS and reimaging the partition to the state where everything used to work but to no avail
I look at the IRQ table in WIn XP and the AGP card & the Audigy are sharing the same IRQ but I guess this is normal for WIn XP
I have no spyware running in the background, no USB game pad/controller plugged in, AGAIN the prob goes away when I take out the sound card
I only have AGP and PCI slot, I have a mini motherboard
My spec:
P4 3. Ghz
GB PC3500 Kingston
Audigy 2 ZS
NVIDIA 6600GT
Maxtor SATA 60 GB
Windows XP Pro with SP2
DirectX 9.0c
Latest Creative Driver
Message Edited by webaccount on <SPAN class=date_text>0-5-2005 <SPAN class=time_text>04:43 AM
Message Edited by webaccount on 0-5-2005 04:45 AM

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