Unable to use the recording port more than once at a ti

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Greets. I'm in a clan that uses Ventrilo for their Battlefield 2 games, and that's all fine and dandy...Love Ventrilo... Though, I am unable to talk in BF2 -and- Ventrilo at the same time. Everyone else in my clan can talk on BF2 and Ventrilo at the same time.Here's some examples so hopefully someone can help:Scenario )When I open Ventrilo first, and launch BF2, all my audio options for microphone are greyed out and set to 0%.Scenario 2)When I open BF2 first and launch Ventrilo, Ventrilo gives me an error about the <SPAN class=highlight>recording port already being in use or something weird like that.Scenario 3)When I open FRAPS first (with <SPAN class=highlight>recording sound enabled), then launch Ventrilo, Ventrilo gives me the same error. Same with BF2 when it comes second, all my options are greyed out.Would installing my sound card for my motherboard work, as long as I set the correct <SPAN class=highlight>recording device? I don't want to do that, because I want to use my SB Li've! instead. Does anyone have the same problem?
Here is my DxDiag info:
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-------------Sound Devices------------- Description: SB Li've! Audio [D000] Default Sound Playback: Yes Default Voice Playback: Yes Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_02&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_00A02&REV_0A Manufacturer ID: Product ID: 00 Type: WDM Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys Driver Version: 5.2.000.0296 (English) Driver Attributes: Final Retail WHQL Logo'd: n/a Date and Size: 9/8/2003 9:47:22, 496800 bytes Other Files: Driver Provider: Creative HW Accel Level: Standard Cap Flags: 0x0 Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0 Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0 HW Memory: 0 Voice Management: No EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, NoSensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No Registry: OK Sound Test Result: Not run
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Earlier this afternoon, I started a cleansweep of my entire system with entries in the registry pointing to anything having to do with SB Li've!. I've got rid of -everything- except for one thing that's really bugging me:In the Control Panel, there's an AudioHQ icon, and when I double-click it, nothing happens... I don't know how to get rid of control panel icons, but considering that's still in there, makes me wonder if there is still something lingering from my last installation.
Now, you're all going to laugh at me for this one, but I've been through two major upgrades (mobo, CPU, sound card, etc.) without formatting. I've been meaning to do this, but I hate formatting, because then it takes like a week to get the computer running the way you want it to.
While uninstalling all my sound drivers, I decided to go into the add remove programs to uninstall some old crap I never used. I saw two enries....BF2, and BF2 demo... Thinking of how I don't play the demo anymore, I will uninstall the demo- 'cept it uninstalled the entire BF2 retail game. Sooooo.....My way to test this isn't even installed, but it seems to be working all right when I launch FRAPS and Ventrilo at the same time.
But then it started to get strange...
When prompted at Windows startup to install new hardware, I had inserted the SB Li've! driver disk and tried to run setup.exe - It says:<IMG alt="" src="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jaldarith/tw/error.gif" border=0>So, on the New Hardware Installation, I had it automatically search for the drivers by CD-ROM, and it found them in the Drivers/audio/win2k folder (Running Windows 2K SP 4), and seemed to install them just fine. After they installed, I heard some sound, thinking everything went smoothly.Now I try to install the upgraded drivers I downloaded from Creative's website:<IMG alt="" src="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jaldarith/tw/error.gif" border=0>So I check out my device manager:<IMG alt="" src="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jaldarith/tw/devicemanager.gif" border=0>Thinking I was able to run FRAPS and Ventrilo at the same time, I tried to load Battlefield 2 and Ventrilo at the same time and got this error:
<IMG alt="" src="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jaldarith/tw/input.gif" border=0>
So I knew it was hopeless.
Then I popped in the SB Li've! CD again and it auto-loaded with the driver installation program, and I selected the typical installation, thinking I may have missed something doing a custom in the past.
Now my device manager shows:
- Creative Game Port
- Creative SB Li've! series
But, it gets strange again. After installing the factory drivers from the CD and then trying to install the updated drivers from Creative's website, I get the same error I got above:
<IMG alt="" src="http://mywebpages.comcast.net/jaldarith/tw/error.gif" border=0>
At this point, I am extremely stuck. Every one of my friends can play Battlefield 2 and have Ventrilo loaded at the same time, and still be able to talk through each program's independent voice over IP.
Is my sound card even able to do such a thing?Message Edited by Jaldarith on 08-23-2005 05:37 PM

Answer 1

Just checked the model of card youre using by Hardware ID
PCI\VEN_02&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_00A02&REV_0A = SB0220 SBLi've! 5. Digital,
and I think if this is correct, you'll may find some other frustrationed owners asking the
same question you have.
Have you tried these drivers
and/or
these drivers
About this issue you and the others are having:
[url="http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=4670" target=_blank>See this thread[/url]
BTW:
You perhaps can install Audigy 2 drivers and software to your card. Here are the instructions how to do it.
It's quite easy process. Download Audigy driver/software package (~20MB) (link is there), extract it into some directory. Download the patch (link is on Automatic Method sentence)and follow instructions how to patch the instalation package. Then installation process. I've modded my Audigy 2 to Audigy 2 Zs using a similiar method and everyting else, but GraphicMixer, works great.
.jtpMessage Edited by jutapa on 08-24-2005 06:38 AM