Ionis
Member
+0|6513|Kingston Upon Hull
Hey guys, I have recently purchased a new sound card as to get away from the crappy on board sound which I have had to live with for years. I got a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy SE 7.1 which is fairly cheap but from the reviews I had to buy it as a budget sound card. I fit it in, install all the correct drivers and apps and load up BF2, open the options and set my sound settings from "Software - High - EAX ON" to "Creative X-Fi - Ultra High - EAX ON" and when I apply these settings I get an error message reading:

"Your sound hardware is incompatible with the settings you have selected. Please reset your audio settings to the default settings in order to hear sound and music."

Now when I select hardware as the sound rendered, in game I have choppy sound which is pretty crap to play with. Software just sounds like it always has done. I want to exploit my new sound card guys!

Can somebody shed light onto this matter please it would be much appreciated!
Ionis
Member
+0|6513|Kingston Upon Hull
Sorry for double post but is there anyone who can help me?
arson
Member
+99|6839|New York
Did you disble your onboards sound in device manager? Did you go to Creatives web site to dl the latest drivers?
Parker
isteal
+1,452|6597|The Gem Saloon
i would try to mess with the creative x fi settings.
that shit is really sketchy.
Ionis
Member
+0|6513|Kingston Upon Hull
I have the latest drivers for the card I baught. Ill try disable the onboard sound also.
Redback00
Member
+51|6777

Ionis wrote:

I have the latest drivers for the card I baught. Ill try disable the onboard sound also.
I have the same problem as you and have downloaded the latest drivers and disabled onboard audio in the bios...the sound is still messed up.

Anyone else have any suggetsions?
HaxyQ
Member
+2|6390|Tromsø, Norway
Remember to choose "Game mode" in the x-fi program. I had the same problem, changed from entertainment mode to game mode, and than it worked.
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6400|Winland

Oh please.... You can't use the X-Fi settings with an Audigy! Audigy is not X-Fi. Audigy is a fairly old series, starting out in 2002. You have to put it on Hardware-High-EAX off. If you've had an integrated soundcard and get a SoundBlaster Live/Audigy, EAX won't function correctly unless you re-format your computer. EAX is shit anyhow... Please karma me, because that's the solution

P.S. if you upgrade to Vista, it won't work -.-

Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2007-06-08 08:31:01)

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
crimson_grunt
Shitty Disposition (apparently)
+214|6857|Teesside, UK

Freezer7Pro wrote:

You have to put it on Hardware-High-EAX off on.
I agree.  I have the same card and this is the best setting it can handle.

If you still get the stuttering voices on hardware mode this is the driver you need if you have xp.
http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/d … 7&y=11


edit:  you edited your post so mine looked odd    I have had this card working on hardware, high with with eax on so i know its possible.

Last edited by crimson_grunt (2007-06-10 03:26:35)

Redback00
Member
+51|6777

HaxyQ wrote:

Remember to choose "Game mode" in the x-fi program. I had the same problem, changed from entertainment mode to game mode, and than it worked.
Where do I choose "Game mode" in the x-fi program? Where's the x-fi program, in Creative (the card) or somewhere else?
Redback00
Member
+51|6777

Freezer7Pro wrote:

You have to put it on Hardware-High-EAX off.  -.-
Well that worked for me. Thanks for the pointer.

I don't get why low and medium don't work but high does????

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