I recently ran into a problem with my x-fi card that would occasionaly make my bf2 game lock up. heres the reason and the fix.
the reason for the lock ups I found out were my sound card, a creative x-fi, I recently did a windows update and right after I did that I noticed my game kept locking up about once maybe twice a day. I remembered that windows updated my sound driver, the driver was dated june of this year but creative hasnt made any new drivers for the x-fi since oct. of 06.
that being said the windows driver for my card was obviously the culprit, but removing soundblaster drivers can be a bit of a pain, so heres how I removed them, I went into my add remove programs menu under control panel, then removed all creative software and drivers, next I went into program files and removed all creative files, and finally I used this program call "driver cleaner" and removed the rest of the files that I couldnt get. after that is all said and done, restart your computer and use the creative drivers from their website, it should be dated oct. 06.
hope this helps somone other than me
the reason for the lock ups I found out were my sound card, a creative x-fi, I recently did a windows update and right after I did that I noticed my game kept locking up about once maybe twice a day. I remembered that windows updated my sound driver, the driver was dated june of this year but creative hasnt made any new drivers for the x-fi since oct. of 06.
that being said the windows driver for my card was obviously the culprit, but removing soundblaster drivers can be a bit of a pain, so heres how I removed them, I went into my add remove programs menu under control panel, then removed all creative software and drivers, next I went into program files and removed all creative files, and finally I used this program call "driver cleaner" and removed the rest of the files that I couldnt get. after that is all said and done, restart your computer and use the creative drivers from their website, it should be dated oct. 06.
hope this helps somone other than me
Comment