Audigy - SB0900

[Toof]

I was recently gifted this sound card. Seems to be pretty nice. My Vox in game sounds bette than ever, all of the on-disc demos sound great. Problem is, AH likes to crash on me in mid-flight now. Anyone else had this problem? I've already planned on reverting to "what works". But the sound quality on this thing is quite nice. Some of my other random PC games support EAX HD, and I haven't had the chance to try that out yet. But AH crashing is kinda miffing me. Vox is good, sound is good, 2 minutes of airtime and *poof*. If anyone has any advice (aside from taking the d*amn thing out) I'm all ears.

[Skuzzy]

Changing sound cards can be problematic.

Registry entries form previous drivers can effect installed drivers as those are not cleared up when you remove the driver.  I am also assuming you removed the drivers for the old sound device and then remove or disabled the old sound device.

Creative drivers do not share IRQ's well either.  If you have to have put the card into a slot that is sharing an IRQ with another active device, it could cause problems.

[Fulmar]

When I replaced my original Audigy with my Audigy X-FI I ran into problems.  Before the installation, I had removed all the creative drivers and hardware from the system.  I installed the new card in the same PCI slot and booted.  Installed the drivers and software with no problems.  However, even though the sound card showed up in my Device manager and the creative software saw the card, Windows did not (i.e. the volume control panel etc).  And this no sound.  Long story short, I had to place the card in my 2nd PCI slot and I attributed the problems to IRQ conflicts.

[Krusty]

Go into your BIOS and disable on-board sound.

Then after that when you boot up go into windows hardware manager. If you see the old sound card, bring up the properties for it and check off "disable" so it doesn't get used in Windows.

If you have an Audigy 1 I've read that EAX isn't really supported properly. It wasn't until Audigy 2 that this was fully supported, so you may or may not have bugs with the EAX. If you still lock up after disabling the old sound card in BIOS, try not using EAX.

Audigy is a good card. Reliable for the most part. I've had one for some time now. Only problem is the software/drivers. I didn't have a disc (just the card, second hand) so I have to go to www.creativelabs.com and use the software auto-updater every time I reinstall it.

[Chalenge]

Skuzzy I noticed a trend in this forum where people fail to inform you of their system specs and in this case (again) it could make a difference. Just saying.

[Toof]

I've got it sorted out. Thanks for the replies.