sound blaster

The Creative Sound Blaster SB1500 (sold under the Sound Blaster Z family) can and does run on Windows 11 in many real‑world setups—but the experience is not plug‑and‑play. Owners report reliable core playback and recording functionality after careful driver installation, yet recurring issues...

The Sound Blaster Z-series card that Creative famously marketed under model number SB1500 can and does run on Windows 11 — but the real story for owners is not a simple yes/no. Compatibility is pragmatic: the hardware itself is sound, but drivers and Creative’s control software have aged and...

Hi, I'd left my computer on over night and this morning I restarted it, after restarting i had no sound and my sound card is no longer being detected. -sound card is sound blaster recon 3di

Hey guys, I'm having a weird issue with switching between my onboard audio and my Sound Blaster Z. Whenever I set the latter to be the default device, I get what sounds like a sound repeated over and over, echoing endlessly. The reason I switch between the two is to use my headset when I'm...

Hi Yesterday I helped my friend upgrade his Windows 7 computer to Windows 10. Everything went smoothly except the sound. Even though he has a different model of Sound Blaster card, (a SB X Fi Fatality Pro) he has the same issue that I did when I switched to Windows 10. After the update there...

A link for new Windows 10 drivers for SoundBlaster products can be found in the update section here: Sound Drivers

Hi I've got my computer all up and running again with everything installed and for the most part working. It's running very well, but there is a down side. Cortana has stopped talking again. I can clearly see that she is sending the speech signal to my Sound Blaster Card, but unlike last time...

Hi Well I've been putting it off because I was going to clean install Windows 10 build 10041 on a different drive as a clean install, but Windows suddenly announced that it was rebooting to install "Windows". The only options were do it now or do it later so I said "Go" and after about 45...

Hi I Refreshed my computer and just when I got everything working great, Windows updated without asking me and killed my sound again. Now I'll have to figure out how to restore my original drivers again. I looked and it clearly shows that it updated my Sound Blaster drives which I didn't want...

Hi Just when I thought I had everything fixed Windows forced me to update my sound drivers again. I couldn't find any way to stop it, it showed that what it was updating was my Sound Blaster drivers. In the previous build I could tell it not to update those drivers but I don't see that option...

Hi I want to upgrade to Windows 8.1 but I've had problems with it. As long as I'm running Windows 8 and my sound is fine. When I upgraded to Windows 8.1, Windows installed new sound drivers and my sound is distorted especially computer generated speech, and sound in computer games. After a...

Here's the basic story: I had a D-Link Air Plus G510 on my pc and recently it died. I had an Azio AWD154B wifi card laying around so I stuck that in my PC. It was working fine for a while but now I have a Code 12 in device manager on this card. If I disable the card, device manager locks up...

Have just installed Windows 7. The sound very bad, with clicks and lots of distortion. Moving volume up/down causes crackles. Soundblaster X-Fi on Gigabyte GA-M56s-S3 motherboard with the correct drivers, Windows updates and latest BIOS. I have kept XP on another drive and swap the boot drive...

hello everybody plz i upgraded my windows to windows 7 but i can install my creative sound driver Live 5.1 Digital SB0220 .. can't detect it :( my mother board is gigabyte h61 processor intel pentuim LGA1155 2,9/3 ram kingstone 4 GB hyper x plz help built in sound is terrible :frown:

Good morning, all. Okay, so now that I've solved my gaming graphics issues, namely by choosing the parts I wanted rather than buying yet another "Media-Center"-style all-in-one unit that did everything, but not very well, I'm now in need of a solution to my present awful headphone sound quality...

Creative have added a Windows 8 beta for their Sound Blaster X-Fi series: Link Removed Support Page: Creative Worldwide Support > Sound Blaster

[Win-7 Pro 64-bit with free XP-Pro virtual machine] I have set up a VM. It was working fine yesterday apart from the networking which I now have operative. However: Yesterday the attached USB soundcard was working fine when activated for both playback and record. Today it isn't. It is...

My PC is running Windows 7 64-bit with onboard Realtek HD Audio. I've checked all obvious places, Device Manager, Volume Control, RealTek HD Audio Manager, etc. I've tried a dozen different fixes involving regedit, services.msc and uninstalling drivers, updating drivers, rolling back drivers...

hello guys, can someone help me work my sound blaster live the model is SB0100 on my windows 7. i want to make it work but no matter drivers for win 7. the windows isnt digitally signing my soundcard. any help and suggestion are welcomed! hoping to get some reply from you guys!

I Install my computer Windows 7 Ultimate but my creative sound card (0680) not working Now please help this problem..