Ok, found my CD.
I tried the ORIGINAL driver from the CD.
Same exact problem.
I updated to the may 05 ones on the site. Same problem
I just called creative and i'm RMA'ing the card.
Yes I read that. i didn't install the audio console.
Their older drivers are worse than this beta driver, trust me, i've tried them before. It causes most of my games to crash.
On my nforce3 they worked fine, the beta ones.
Not on my nforce4
No, there is only one driver version.
Those are old updates superseeded by (and included with) the beta driver.
I'm not going to revert my drivers by 2 years, and cause more problems than i'm already having. No offense to you of course, I really appreciate all the help I am getting here...
Creative only has ONE driver for the ZS Gamer. And it's a BETA driver at that.
How sorry is that on their part.. they can't even produce an official driver for their card.
I ran a test speaker settings.. every speaker but the right rear has a big red ERROR on it..on LOW settings in the game. There are not really any audio options in source games..just high/med/low, that's it.
Speakers, yes. It doesn't COMPELTELY hang though, I can ctrl alt del (takes a minute) and kill the app.
I never modified MBM5 from default, I used a version on the DFI support board.
http://www.polarism.com/computer/hangvid/
I already reformatted multiple times, i've tried 81.89/s, 81.94/s, 81.95's, modified's, etc.. i've tried 6.66/7/70, the compilations.. you name it.
No drivers seem to fix it. I'm starting to think it's the power supply, already have an ocz...
I was thinking of taking it downstairs and hooking it up to my 32 inch LCD TV.
Specs:
MSI K8N Neo Plat s754
2GB Corsair Value Select PC3200
AMD Athlon64 2800+ Newcastle
Leadtek 6800GT 256MB
Probably a 160GB Western Digital i'm going to slap in it once my second 300GB drive gets here...