Audigy2 sound card driving me CRAZY!

Vagrantx

Hello,

My Audigy2 card is making this poping sound that is driving me nuts!! The poping noise didn't start until I played GTA Vice City and the sound would only come out in the game, so I though it was a driver problem but after i updated the driver it got worse now it pops all the time! I tried reformating the system and installed the stock drivers but it still pops, is there a way to fix this?

Thrax

This is a classic problem for the Audigy series of cards. In fact, recent archaeological digs have uncovered the following text, translated from Sanskrit (A 5000 year old dead language):

"GOD DAMN AUDIGY KEEPS ****ING POPPING. DRIVING ME INSANE."

Archaeologists have concluded that the people who wrote in Sanskrit did not die out due to natural causes, warfare, or cultural homogenisation, rather a few BC Audigy owners went crazy and killed everyone.

Try onboard sound if you have it, or see if you can borrow another sound card.

Mt_Goat

Sounds like the classic Audigy incompatability to me. As Thrax stated, these problems go waaaaay back. (although I won't get quite as carried away as he did )

i0esign

Vagrantx wrote:

Hello,

My Audigy2 card is making this poping sound that is driving me nuts!! The poping noise didn't start until I played GTA Vice City and the sound would only come out in the game, so I though it was a driver problem but after i updated the driver it got worse now it pops all the time! I tried reformating the system and installed the stock drivers but it still pops, is there a way to fix this?

You can also try and get the NEWER drivers from Creative. Sometimes uninstalling the old drivers and than installing a newer (fixed) version helps.

gibbonsl

swaping PCI slot might help