There must be a compatability issue between the creative drivers and radeon drivers, it seems that the newer ati radeon ones cause the conflict. Have looked on creative forums and also searched quite a lot on the net but not many have reported issues, maybe they just accept this as console does still work, just takes 20 seconds or so to open instead of about one to two. I did send an email to ati but got no response. Will keep searching.
I don't have an issue any more one of the last releases fixed the issue for me.
How did you sort out the problem, I have latest catalyst driver 11.2 and latest creative xfi-driver 2.17.0008., and audio cosole runs slow win 7x64 and the same with 32bit. I have both o/s on seperate hard drives so can dual boot.
I had the same problem, I went into the device manager and clicked the "sound, video and game controller tab and noticed there were 2 (two)" AMD High Definition Audio Device" listed and I simply disabled the top one.
The sound and everything seems to be working as it always has and sounds good. So no noticable problems from disabling one device.
But to me it stills seems to launch just a little slow when compared to other programs, but it will launch now in about 2 to 3 seconds. So much faster and I can live with that. Ezone
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