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Hello folks,


I abandoned my plan to get audio over HDMI with my 4890 (no way to pass 5.1/7.1 from my TV to my Spherex XBOX HTIB)...


So I started looking at options using my Audigy 2:


Recently I hooked my soundcard up to my surround sound system via coaxial digital and the sound was horrible--as if there was an echo or stutter, however the game Mass Effect has Dolby Digital in its launcher program and this came through fine! So on a whim (and with a huge leap of faith) I bought the Dolby Digital Live pack and lo and behold it actually sounded clear!


I thought I was set, but now a new set of problems has cropped up:


1) Whenever I change my speaker settings from 5.1 to 2.1 (so I can use my headphones) the volume of my playback AND recording devices gets changed, and same again when I switch back to 5.1!


AND


2) Initially quite rarely, but now every time I use it, the DDL encoder just craps out--my receiver goes crazy switching from Dolby Digital to PCM--and it used to come back after 30 seconds to a minute; however now the signal never comes back and I have to turn the encoding off and back on again...


Last night I discovered my Audigy driver had reverted to the Windows provided one (ugh) so I force-installed the latest Audigy 2 Support Pack by danielK, but still had the same problem, so I uninstalled, ran Guru3D driver sweeper and reinstalled the entire driver package... that was 11:30PM last night, and I haven't had a chance to test it since then...


Anyone have any insight?


Also I thought it might be the 4GB memory hole problem, but I have the same issues with memory remapping on or off in my BIOS.


OS is Windows 7 x64 RC


Thanks!

 

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Originally Posted by etherboy /forum/post/16841680


Last night I discovered my Audigy driver had reverted to the Windows provided one (ugh) so I force-installed the latest Audigy 2 Support Pack by danielK, but still had the same problem, so I uninstalled, ran Guru3D driver sweeper and reinstalled the entire driver package... that was 11:30PM last night, and I haven't had a chance to test it since then...

Given that you're aware of the danielK drivers, you probably know how frustrating it is to try to use an Audigy2 ZS on 64bit Windows Vista/7. Getting just the 5.1 and front panel optical pass through to work (original features that should be supported be Creative) was a happy day for me. I cannot offer you any specific help on your DDL problem, but would think thats its more than likely due to the drivers (or lack there of). DanielK has done a great job on them, but without Creative themselves actually fixing them to do what they were designed and advertised to do, there's always going to be problems.