Sound Blaster Z Windows 10 Audio Issue

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GZIsaacs

GZIsaacs

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Hi I hope this is in the right category it's my first time posting here. A few days ago my sound blaster z stated giving me problems. It no longer played audio in game, and it also doesn't play any sound when I tweak it in the Sound Blaster Control Panel. The odd thing is Windows can play audio just fine. I can even go to playback devices, hit configure then click on specific speakers and they will sound. If I do that in the SB Control Panel no audio plays. Since then i have rolled back and forward the audio drivers to no avail. What really perplexed me was during one of the times I rolled back the drivers I used the included driver disc and the audio returned. Disturbed but not wanted to miss an opportunity to game i played a few rounds of BF4 then went to sleep. The next day the audio issue resumed. I tried the same fix to no success. I've reinstalled Windows 10, and even tried Windows 8.1 but so far I haven't met success. I built this computer to play games and watch tv shows/movies (I know very lame) and this issue is starting to get very old. I look forward to all the advice, and thanks in advance!

System Specs(never overclocked)
MOBO: MSI z97 G45
CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K
CPU: Cooler: Corsair H100i
GPU: 2 EVGA Geforce GTX 780 SC w/ACX in SLI
RAM: 16GB DDR3 (4x4GB DDR3 Kingston HyperX Fury)
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB
HDD: WB Blue 1TB 7200RPM
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Z w/Beamforming Mic
PSU: Antec HCG 850M
ODD: Asus BW-12D1S-U
Keyboard: Corsair K70
Mouse: Corsair M65/nVidia Shield Controller
Speakers: Corsair SP2500+Klipsch Promedia 2.1/ATH-M50x
Displays: Asus vg248qe+Samsung S24D390+Sony W800B
 
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GZIsaacs

GZIsaacs

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Jan 18, 2016
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So it turns out that my graphics driver was causing the issue, even though it updated Dec 21st and the issue presented itself almost a month later. I preformed a clean install, then used the cd to install the SBZ drivers first (even before chipset drivers) and created a restore point because i had jumped between different versions of Windows a few times already. Then when i got to installing the nVidia drivers i didn't hit "clean install" ( i usually do) because a few minutes earlier I had and my audio had gone out. Lo and behold, my sound card was working again! Now I flip a coin to see if my audio will disappear when I install new software! =D
 
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