Sound Blaster

[tripy]

Ill be quick about this cause I know like most of you I was banging my head as to how to get this to work. This is what I did and its been playinng for hours without any garble. If you deviate from what I have done, post it if theres a quicker way.

I installed the drivers from the disc that I got with the set, you will get alot of errors but it should still install fine. I would also assume you can DL the orginal NOV19 driver and install under compatability mode. (DL to desktop--->right click---->properties----->compatability and change to XP) install and reboot.

Next, I installed the 2nd driver set (april5) and instead of installing under compatibilty mode, I opened the .exe with WINRAR and went to Drivers---->Support----->i386----->ctzapxx.exe and select "driver install" and leave "overwrite existing drivers" unchecked.

Reboot and let me know how it worked.

Message Edited by tripy on 07-31-2005 08:23 AM

[Sharptail]

Well I got the trick to work (extracting the exe and using the driver exe to install it) and it does finally work but while playing it gets some odd distortion in it.. nothing unbearable but slightly annoying. If anyone has an idea on a solid fix or possible solution for thos of us that can at least get sound from our Audigy 2 zs it would be greatly appreciated.

[tjp12100]

Now I have the same card, Audigy 2 ZS, and i used your method, making the first driver install compatable and then extracting the second one but it didnt work. First off when i extracted it i didnt see all those folders, for me i opened drivers and the file you were talking about was there. i installed it and a message came up telling me this driver was older then the one i was currently installing... did it anyways and still didnt work, maybe i am doing something wrong? Still getting Gargling...

Another thing is has this driver effected anyone elses Aol Instant Messanger?

[tjp12100]

OK so uninstalled and reinstalled this time it workd just like you said it would (the process at least) but im still getting the distortion garbling sounds. I dont know why. Another thing is aol instant messanger doesnt work still. im gonna go back to XP soon :-/

[beastt]

nope didnt work.... only drivers that work r  the kk drivers   but only 2 channels work but no horrible sound though..

[tjp12100]

WHat are The KK drivers?

[Fred069]

I suppose he means the Kx drivers.
This wouldn't work in Vista 64 bit would it?
Guess I'm stuck on only front speakers

[Epedemic]

I get garbled sound when doing this :/ But its better than no sound

[McoreD]

I have the same exact problem. Distortion is most probably due to no DirectSound in Vista.

I am trying this solution posted here. If anybody care to try here: http://www.betaone.net/forum/showthread.php?threadid=17115

[amitbueno]

I got vista and audigy 2. I can not seems to install the basic drivers it halts everytime I try to install them. I used the cd originally given to me by creative, and tried to install the drivers manually via 'computer management'.

In addition I tried to follow the solution given in the forum but didn't succeed.

I really need help in installing this please reply if you got the answer to that one...