Windows 7 - OpenAL

What games are causing the problems?

Also if the option is there in the game, are you selecting hardware or software? If it is hardware, you need to set it to software as there is no hardware (EMU10K1/2 chip) on the card. The Audigy SE is a purely software based card as far as OpenAL goes.

The games are Bioshock as soon as you install the new patch (enabling openal eax support) and Armed Assault every version.

Now i tried some different things! After removing the soundcard, everything is working fine. So i tried again the driver from daniel K and the native windows driver, but without sucess :-/
Also some more different creative driver but nothing is working. Did there something change in windows 7 (x64) since the RC in the eax sound system? Because in the RC it was definetly working with the drivers of daniel k and later on the creative drivers.

if the game would start, i could turn of the hardware sound, but there are no options to start the game with software sound.

But this problem is known for Bioshock, but without any tips to solve this problem except to unplug the soundcard:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum...d.php?t=912584

What did Radarsync find.?

Sorry for not replying to the radarsync topic! But all drivers where uptodate except the chipset drivers and for this i downloaded the newest drivers so that afterwards everything was uptodate.

Ok ,did you Shut Down the PC and reboot it since you installed all the new drivers. if not ,do it now, Please.
And please fill out your system specs.

I rebooted the system after every driver install.

done.

Hi, is this your motherboard, and if it is make sure you download everything that you have not downloaded off this site, here is the link to all that's needed for your motherboard, if it's not your motherboard let me know.

ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Support-

You may have to fill out the series, model, etc again at the Asus site, sorry.

That is exactly the problem! I tried already downloading these drivers, but it does not work cause there is no Windows 7 support. And the Vista64 drivers did not work :-(
So i manually looked around at the intel site to download the actual drivers and also the actual realtek drivers.

If the creative soundcard is removed everything works fine and with the soundcard only openal games which try to use eax will fail.

Ok thanks to all helping me with this issue!

I've figured out what the problem is. My first driver i installed was the original creative driver and exactly this was all the time the problem.
Because it was only possible to remove everything of this driver from the system AND prevent a reinstallation of the driver after reboot after using Driver Sweeper.

So just go to the hardware manager, right click on the soundcard, select uninstall and remove driver data as well.
Afterwards go to the software settings and delete all three creative programs especially the "Audigy properties for windows 7 x64" because this is an OpenAl host system which is kind of crappy.
Now there are still many install data left and if you now reboot your system the driver is installed again afterwards.
So download "Driver Sweeper" and kill all the remaining registry entries and executable.
After a reboot only the default driver of windows will automatically installed and then you can install the Daniel_K driver package.
Without this "Creative OpenAL Host Manager" everything is runnign fine with EAX and OpenAL.

I'm really disappointed that Creative re-installs after a complete de-installation of the driver software without asking the complete software again. so it is kind of hard to figure out whats the problem.