Today I just got my hands on an X-fi platinum soundcard. I installed it, installed the drivers and listened to some music, and all was well. I decided to start playing BF2 and test it out. I had the audio set to "high", EAX enabled and the audio renderer set to "creative X-fi". In the control panel for the soundcard, I had the 24 bit crystalizer turned on and set it to "game mode" with EAX enabled.
I then joined an IO 32-on-64 Kark server, and a few minutes in, I hear a buzz and a pop over the headphones (sort of like the sound you get when the plug gets disconnected), and the entire computer froze. Neither escape or ctrl+alt+del did anything, so I restarted. At first I thought it was the CPU overheating, as I have recently overclocked it, but it had already run 3Dmark06 fine, and was only at 42 degrees celcius. Windows did not come up with any messages, so I restarted BF2 to see what would happen. Thats when I noticed: I had no sound.
None of the sounds in the BF2 menu were coming up. I changed the volume, checked to see if it was muted, but I couldn't get it to work. Then I tried to play some music, and that didn't work either. Thinking that the headphones might have screwed up, I plugged in a set of speakers, only to get the same result. Switching back to onboard had the same effect, with neither headphones or speakers working.
Does anyone know what the hell happened? How could the soundcard suddenly screw up like that after working fine beforehand, and then have the onboard sound stuff up at the same time?
I then joined an IO 32-on-64 Kark server, and a few minutes in, I hear a buzz and a pop over the headphones (sort of like the sound you get when the plug gets disconnected), and the entire computer froze. Neither escape or ctrl+alt+del did anything, so I restarted. At first I thought it was the CPU overheating, as I have recently overclocked it, but it had already run 3Dmark06 fine, and was only at 42 degrees celcius. Windows did not come up with any messages, so I restarted BF2 to see what would happen. Thats when I noticed: I had no sound.
None of the sounds in the BF2 menu were coming up. I changed the volume, checked to see if it was muted, but I couldn't get it to work. Then I tried to play some music, and that didn't work either. Thinking that the headphones might have screwed up, I plugged in a set of speakers, only to get the same result. Switching back to onboard had the same effect, with neither headphones or speakers working.
Does anyone know what the hell happened? How could the soundcard suddenly screw up like that after working fine beforehand, and then have the onboard sound stuff up at the same time?