Hi! I bought an Audigy 2 ZS soundcard a couple of months ago. Sadly, it did nothing for my gaming performance. In fact it seems to have lowered the framerates!
In games with EAX on I get occasional static and stuttering. It's really annoying. I spent a bit of money on this card and it's worse than my onboard sound was. Please help me fix this!
A couple of other symptoms that may help you gurus pinpoint my problem:
--I thought it might be IRQs, since my sound and video cards used to share the same IRQ. But I fiddled with that and they are separate now and I still have sound issues.
--I don't have any drivers for my onboard sound on. Fresh install, never put them on the system.
--Problem only seems to happen with EAX on in most games. Quake4 stutters no matter what the sound is set on.
--Unreal2004 doesn't stutter, but the video freezes for a second every minute or two.
--Online games, such as Guild Wars and WOW are really bad. Lots of static
My specs:
AMD Athlon 3000+
MSI NForce 2 mobo with most recent drivers
ATI X800 XT AIW
Creative Audigy 2 ZS PP with the extra bits installed
1 GB 2700 RAM
Thanks for any help!
In games with EAX on I get occasional static and stuttering. It's really annoying. I spent a bit of money on this card and it's worse than my onboard sound was. Please help me fix this!
A couple of other symptoms that may help you gurus pinpoint my problem:
--I thought it might be IRQs, since my sound and video cards used to share the same IRQ. But I fiddled with that and they are separate now and I still have sound issues.
--I don't have any drivers for my onboard sound on. Fresh install, never put them on the system.
--Problem only seems to happen with EAX on in most games. Quake4 stutters no matter what the sound is set on.
--Unreal2004 doesn't stutter, but the video freezes for a second every minute or two.
--Online games, such as Guild Wars and WOW are really bad. Lots of static
My specs:
AMD Athlon 3000+
MSI NForce 2 mobo with most recent drivers
ATI X800 XT AIW
Creative Audigy 2 ZS PP with the extra bits installed
1 GB 2700 RAM
Thanks for any help!