audigy 2 player no longer recognised by sofware...had it with creative!

backtothefuture

backtothefuture

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I just shifted my PC from upstairs to downstairs, no settings were changed etc...

now it seems that creative applications refuse to launch (speaker calibrator, audio HQ, etc etc)

admittedly I haven't accessed those applications in maybe a couple of months but still since no system settings were changed, they should work!

tried uninstalling and reinstalling drivers etc...

though I get sound in windows, I cannot make use of the above applications

keep on getting errors such as incompatible audio driver,audio device supported by this application is not detected etc etc

Sound card is any Audigy Player ZS.

anyone know what the issue could be?

cheers!
 
Have you tried taking out the card and placing it in another slot on the mobo?

What OS are you using?

Asus Xonar make the best sound cards at the moment, what would be your budget?
 
no haven't tried the above. The sound card still works (got my speakers connected to it), though creative's software no longer recognises it...

Re: a new soundcard, no budget as long as it suits my need... i.e. gaming and watching movies using my Logi Z5500s... (plus has to be better than what I am replacing ;) )
 
Did a quick google.. first impressions are that it seems like a high end card for audiophiles.. also there don't seem to be any connectors for the Logitech's 3-cable input? ... plus no mention of DTS on the specs (as opposed to current Asus Xonars?)
 
hmm not sure if I'd be better off getting the Sonar DX2 in that case , at about 50 notes cheaper.. I'm not really into headphone gaming that much and mainly use my Z5500s ... I assume the DX2 will be more than good enough for those speakers?....

also the DX2 should sound subtantially better on headphones compared to the SB Audigy 2, yes?

Any thoughts?

thanks!
 
backtothefuture said:
hmm not sure if I'd be better off getting the Sonar DX2 in that case , at about 50 notes cheaper.. I'm not really into headphone gaming that much and mainly use my Z5500s ... I assume the DX2 will be more than good enough for those speakers?....

also the DX2 should sound subtantially better on headphones compared to the SB Audigy 2, yes?

Any thoughts?

thanks!
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no speakers that cost less than £500 will be be too good for the Xonar (or x-fi or Audigy's either)

the DX2 will sound a fair bit better with decent headphones (like Sennheiser HD555's or something along those lines) than the audigy 2 because of its better sound processor and its much higher quality analogue-out hardware :)

backtothefuture said:
also does it matter whether I get PCI or PCI-e (in terms of sound quality)?
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i very highly doubt it, but its possible that there could be a very small (less than 1/100ms) lag while using PCI-e, which has higher latency than PCI because the PCI-e bus is shared with the data-hungry graphics card.
 
did you update drivers recently? the 2 latest update from the site would not work with the audigy 2 apps with my config.had to downgrade to previous driver to get it working again.
 
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