shuurajou
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Okay, I've been having endless amounts of problems with getting my EMU to run with the Audigy 2 on my computer, but needless to say, I tried pretty much everything.
It seems, that the problem boils down to a file called 'ctaud2k.sys' which is stored in the 'windows\system32\drivers' directory. Obviously, it doesn't seem that either of the products producers took into consideration, that BOTH of the drivers -- for both the Audigy 2, and the E-MU, have (and use) this file, and in exactly the same location. To my knowledge, the file contents is different for both of them (even though named the same, and stored in the same place).
So, the E-MU's version and the Audigy 2's version seem to be different. God knows why, they called it the same for the E-MU as they did the Audigy 2 -- to create conflicts? -- I dunno. A simple renaming would have done wonders. Seems stupid of them to product two different cards, that try to install their drivers into the same location, with the same names, as one of their cards that they say are meant to run together without problems.
This also explains, that in one of my attempts, in order to get my system to start up with both the E-MU and the Audigy2, I had to disable my E-MU. But when attempting to enable it whilst in windows, the system crashed to the blue screen of death, quoting the file name 'ctaud2k.sys'.
I've tried my hardest to get things to work, but I end up with nothing but problems.
I started up my computer, with NO sound devices plugged into my motherboard. I removed all emu, and audigy software (plus drivers), from my system; rebooting after each action.
I then, restarted in safe mode, running JV16 to clean my registry of redundent files; running disk cleanup to remove any temporary or un-needed files; running driver cleaner to clear all traces of creative drivers from my system.
I then rebooted, one more time, before shutting down the system.
First thing I did, was place my E-MU, at the furthest PCI slot away possible, from where I was going to install my Audigy2 in my system.
Start up the system, install the E-MU 1212m, works fine alone.
Turn off the system, insert the Audigy furthest away possible from the E-MU.
Unfortunately, still problems >_<.
edit: not only 'ctaud2k.sys' is used in both cards -- but MOST Files are >_<
It seems, that the problem boils down to a file called 'ctaud2k.sys' which is stored in the 'windows\system32\drivers' directory. Obviously, it doesn't seem that either of the products producers took into consideration, that BOTH of the drivers -- for both the Audigy 2, and the E-MU, have (and use) this file, and in exactly the same location. To my knowledge, the file contents is different for both of them (even though named the same, and stored in the same place).
So, the E-MU's version and the Audigy 2's version seem to be different. God knows why, they called it the same for the E-MU as they did the Audigy 2 -- to create conflicts? -- I dunno. A simple renaming would have done wonders. Seems stupid of them to product two different cards, that try to install their drivers into the same location, with the same names, as one of their cards that they say are meant to run together without problems.
This also explains, that in one of my attempts, in order to get my system to start up with both the E-MU and the Audigy2, I had to disable my E-MU. But when attempting to enable it whilst in windows, the system crashed to the blue screen of death, quoting the file name 'ctaud2k.sys'.
I've tried my hardest to get things to work, but I end up with nothing but problems.
I started up my computer, with NO sound devices plugged into my motherboard. I removed all emu, and audigy software (plus drivers), from my system; rebooting after each action.
I then, restarted in safe mode, running JV16 to clean my registry of redundent files; running disk cleanup to remove any temporary or un-needed files; running driver cleaner to clear all traces of creative drivers from my system.
I then rebooted, one more time, before shutting down the system.
First thing I did, was place my E-MU, at the furthest PCI slot away possible, from where I was going to install my Audigy2 in my system.
Start up the system, install the E-MU 1212m, works fine alone.
Turn off the system, insert the Audigy furthest away possible from the E-MU.
Unfortunately, still problems >_<.
edit: not only 'ctaud2k.sys' is used in both cards -- but MOST Files are >_<
