- #Creative sound blaster z drivers quality install#
- #Creative sound blaster z drivers quality software#
Same effect with both front and back ports. The problem I had was that after about a week the output got really scratchy with heavy distortion at a medium volume output and the OS volume control stopped working completely.
#Creative sound blaster z drivers quality software#
This got me disappointed at the start because I'd just spent the money to try to improve my sound and I couldn't hear any difference (outside of using their EQ or other software settings). Honestly couldn't specifically identify any differences, but I had to remove the card to get the onboard to work, so it was a couple minutes between listening so anything small had no chance to be found. Using my AKG K612 headphones (120ohm / 101dB sensitivity), I did some basic listening comparisons between using the SBZ headphone outs and my onboard Gigabyte implementation of ALC889 (including the onboard going through my Tapco mixer as an amp, which just seemed to add a bit of hiss when I turned it up past normal listening levels). I had two copies of this card last year (yes, that's a bad sign already).
I dialed it down a bit and that produced good results: Certainly reason enough for me to avoid using it but let's measure it anyway.įull output was a bit above required 2 volts and caused a lot of distortion.
Overall software experience is as bad as one would expect from Creative. So I had to rely on ASIO4ALL layer on top of its low level stock windows driver. Its ASIO interface would not work and kept saying the device was not there or some such thing. It added an auto-update which immediately told me there were critical updates available even though I just downloaded the rest of the stuff! For grins, I let it try to update, only to have it fail catastrophically with bad error dialog boxes, etc. It installed a bunch of stuff with yet another interface than their other boards. Installation of the crapware package was not smooth. I almost gave up but decided to re-seat the board and try again.
#Creative sound blaster z drivers quality install#
Despite said lights on first install, Windows did not recognize it and the 150 megabyte package of crapware from Creative refused to install anything saying there is no hardware. Alas, that didn't help me much in getting it working. It has some red LEDs that come on when powered on.
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