Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sound Card by Creative
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Digital camera reviews of Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Sound Card
Digital camera Review: Software was written by gibbon monkeys.
Summary: 1 Stars
I have had this card for 2 years now and it has worked fine for me as long as I didn't play with Creative's drivers or software.
All of a sudden, sound quit coming out of my rear speakers ONLY in certain Creative applications, and the speaker calibrator quit putting out any sound. So I uninstalled the drivers and tried to reinstall them.
Be aware that -
1. Creative will NEVER offer a driver pack on its webpage. You MUST, I repeat MUST start with your original CD to load some drivers, and then you can get Creative's patches from their webpage. Now that my CD is 2 years old, there appears to be a conflict with *its* drivers and creative's patches. Apparently not enough bananas were bought for the gibbons, and they wandered out to the jungle in search of nourishment before finishing a full driver package.
2. There is a good chance that once you go to reinstall your drivers, you will get a "Hardware not found" message (see Creative's tech support forum) and not be able to install the drivers. Want another banana, Creative programmer? OOO OOO OO AHH AHHH AHHH!
My card is now a steaming pile of $100 poo since their driver system is not working for me.
Wish I had my old Turtle Beach Santa Cruz back.
Digital camera Review: Sounds great!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was in the market for a sound card after my poor onboard sound chip just wasn't cutting it - stuttering, poor quality, and so on.I picked up one of these yesterday. I read a lot about installation nightmares, but with the lack of any serious competitors quality and performance-wise, I felt I didn't really have a choice.
I was sure to uninstall all previous drivers. Install went without a hitch. Am now using EAX 3 in my games and they sound absolutely terrific. I feel like they're smoother too, which would be from the decreased CPU load the onboard sound was placing on it.
Digital camera Review: The All in Wonder and the Audigy 2 are incompatable!
Summary: 2 Stars
The All in Wonder and the Audigy 2 are incompatable!The audio input does not working correctly from the ATI When using the time shift feature the sound is messed up big time. ATI seems to be aware of this problem, they reccomend using the mic input to solve the problem, I didn't buy a top line audio card to use the mono mic input.
To attempt to solve this problem I contacted Audigy tech support. They gave be a solution that fixed the timeshfiting sound problem. The only problem is that now there is no sound when I toggle timeshifting off. The Audigy people seem to think oit is acceptablel to go back to the windows volume control and manually toggle this setting if you want to toggle the ATI Media Center timeshifting on and off. To me this is totally unacceptable.
It seems to me that a-lot of people have probally bought this combination of incompatable products the ATI All In Wonder and the Audigy 2 for Christmas and I'm sure some of those people will be very disapointed.
I wish Soundblasters response would have told me they were solving one problem only to create another problem so I wouldn't have wasted another hour of my time.
Unhappy customer
Digital camera Review: The All in Wonder and the Audigy 2 are incompatable!
Summary: 2 Stars
The All in Wonder and the Audigy 2 are incompatable!The audio input does not working correctly from the ATI When using the time shift feature the sound is messed up big time. ATI seems to be aware of this problem, they reccomend using the mic input to solve the problem, I didn't buy a top line audio card to use the mono mic input.
To attempt to solve this problem I contacted Audigy tech support. They gave be a solution that fixed the timeshfiting sound problem. The only problem is that now there is no sound when I toggle timeshifting off. The Audigy people seem to think oit is acceptablel to go back to the windows volume control and manually toggle this setting if you want to toggle the ATI Media Center timeshifting on and off. To me this is totally unacceptable.
It seems to me that a-lot of people have probally bought this combination of incompatable products the ATI All In Wonder and the Audigy 2 for Christmas and I'm sure some of those people will be very disapointed.
I wish Soundblasters response would have told me they were solving one problem only to create another problem so I wouldn't have wasted another hour of my time.
Unhappy customer
Digital camera Review: The All in Wonder and the Audigy 2 are incompatable!
Summary: 2 Stars
The All in Wonder and the Audigy 2 are incompatable!The audio input does not working correctly from the ATI When using the time shift feature the sound is messed up big time. ATI seems to be aware of this problem, they reccomend using the mic input to solve the problem, I didn't buy a top line audio card to use the mono mic input.
To attempt to solve this problem I contacted Audigy tech support. They gave be a solution that fixed the timeshfiting sound problem. The only problem is that now there is no sound when I toggle timeshifting off. The Audigy people seem to think oit is acceptablel to go back to the windows volume control and manually toggle this setting if you want to toggle the ATI Media Center timeshifting on and off. To me this is totally unacceptable.
It seems to me that a-lot of people have probally bought this combination of incompatable products the ATI All In Wonder and the Audigy 2 for Christmas and I'm sure some of those people will be very disapointed.
I wish Soundblasters response would have told me they were solving one problem only to create another problem so I wouldn't have wasted another hour of my time.
Unhappy customer