never bought one, never will.

This comment was edited on Mar 5, 11:12.

My 9700 worked fine, latest driver too.
might just be the aiw's that have the problem.

How can anyone in this day and age can get confused about intel's name and thier status.
Intel's lawyers must be bored, no big cases lately....

The game is so obviously being made for xbox.

It's unfortunate that this game was developed for a console crowd, its true fans all use pc's.

Haha nine days in a tractor and hallucinations as well.
There folks, is a true nerd.

Anyone know if this pci-express is going to require a new case for it. The layout of the motherboard has me wondering.

This wouldn't be good as I just bought a new case with side window ect..

What a joke this article is, like i want to give up a 15 inch screen for a 4 inch screen.

Laptops are just starting to get good. this article forgets that gamers will be the next driving force in laptop sales, once they finnaly put out a machine that handles most newer games , and allows one to change out the cpu and gpu, then laptops will be selling big time.
The main reason laptops don't sell is because they don't allow upgrading. At least Ati is trying to change that.

Is this game strictly online only, or does it have bots to play offline by chance.

Well i think the concept is great, This game has alot going for it. I think D&D has a long road ahead of it.
What Bioware needs to do is take this game to the next level. They only just touched on the Dungeon Master Capabilities, and If they did the game over with a engine that could churn out higher level graphics they'd have me hooked for a while. A NWN 2 shouldn't be that hard to make as the scripting can be ported. The only gripe I have is the graphics seem dated. This is a game that should have had FPS perspectives for the players and a top down view for the DM.

One can only hope for a second attempt from bioware.

This comment was edited on Nov 19, 18:33.

http://www.the-elemental.net/

Hopefully this will be fun.

Cool a very fast reply from Creative. New drivers work fine now.

From Creative :

As this is a new release, it is possible that you have encountered a
problem that has not been encountered in testing. These drivers have
been thoroughly tested, and no problems were found. It is possible that
the driver was corrupted during the installation.

1. Click START / RUN / Type MSCONFIG and press ENTER.

2. Insert a check to the left of SELECTIVE STARTUP and deselect 'LOAD
STARTUP ITEMS'.

3. Select the SERVICES tab and select HIDE ALL MICROSOFT SERVICES.

4. Uncheck all results and click OK.

5. Click OK and reboot when prompted.

Then, try uninstalling and reinstalling the update using the following:

Extract out the EAX4 with Winzip, locate and run CTZAPXX.EXE from the
folder that you
extracted SBA2_EAX4DRV_031031.exe in. When running CTZAPXX.EXE you must
check
the option that states: ?Delete all shared creative audio driver
files.?
As well as the
option to uninstall the drivers.
Click on OKAY, let it uninstall and reboot when requested.
After reboot, cancel pnp wizard, according to standard installation
procedure.
then reinstall the update. Click on the SBA2_EAX4DRV_031031.exe file.

It needs mirrors its overloaded

Np Binabik

I think were hooped on this one.

Did you look at the Product # on your sound card ?
Also what motherboard you using ?

Im using a msi kt400 ultra with the 1.3 bios, there is a 1.4 out but there is nothing in the readme regarding any sound compatibility issues, just a cpu temperature fix.

I used the original cd and when installing i chose the repair option, I believe the old drivers where written over the newer one.

Good luck getting it back.

When you've had enough grief, I suggest letting the tech support know of your problem. Also let them know that it's old school to have multiple fixs for a product. A full update in one install would be nice. For a minute there I thought i was downloading patchs on microsofts site

there is a number on the back of the card mine says sb0240

Its the card identification and also pertains to the manufactured date I believe. Then again I never looked to see if there was a revision number on the card.

I just reinstalled the original drivers from the install cd
and did all the other updates except the new driver and managed to get my sound back. So far there isn't any games Im playing that need this new driver So I will wait to see if they discover the problem. I sent a message to thier tech support via the E-mail service, Who knows If I'll get a reply

This comment was edited on Nov 7, 22:24.

what is the model # on your card ?

Thks Kenn.

Thats the conclusion I decided on as well, If no one else is getting this glitch then I assume somewhere along the line my install went left instead of right.

Kenn im running 9.0b

Whats strange is the creative diagnostic test sees the hardware and passes the test , yet in the dxdiag test it says there is no sound card installed.

I think I may have to do a format. I've tried a few fixs but still no go. I hope I can get this as I just did a reinstall of xp a few days ago.
I'll try and reinstall directx.

This comment was edited on Nov 7, 18:18.

Anyone else having problems with this driver ?

I've managed to recover my sound by reinstalling the original drivers.
I still have sound after I install all the other newer updates (Consol, spearkersetup, soundfont, ect.. )
But as soon as I install this new eax 4 driver I lose everything. The diagnostic tests show it is detecting the hardware and the registry, but everything else fails !

I own a SBAudigy 2, product # sb0240

Frustrated....

This comment was edited on Nov 7, 16:22.

Ahhh !! I lost all my sound now.

Can't creative be creative and incorporate all the updates into one install file. man what a pain.

The diagnostic test shows the hardware is detected but now it failed in everything else. Numerous driver reinstalls have all failed. And to boot the autoupdate feature is saying im all up to date.