Some solutions that have proven head and shoulders above the rest in performance and signal quality are the Skullcandy PLYR2, Astro Gaming A50 Wireless, and the PDP Afterglow Wireless gaming headphones. But wireless headphones have made long strides to resolve many of my past pet peeves. I still avoid wireless mice for my own personal use. But the major hurdle boiled down to latency and response times. I could give you a laundry list of past issues I had with such setups. Windows 10 Windows 10 creator update creators no audio no sound not working can't hear sound blaster z creative June July 2017 Creative Sound Blaster Z 1704 1709 1809 1803 Creators update Fall Update.Before early 2012 I had been an outspoken naysayer when it came to wireless headphones and mice. As I said before it took me 2 years to find a fix. Sorry for the long explanation but I hope it helps someone. Doing this allows the control panel to be installed but gives the option to roll back the driver if you have a recurrence of the problem. The rollback option will only be there if you let windows install the drivers as instructed earlier. IF you have a problem (I have had none following the above steps) go to Device Manager - Sound, video and game controllers - Sound Blaster Audio Controller and ROLLBACK. Restart system as instructed at the end of the installation process. Clicking the other options produces a drop down menu and an option to not install that specific item which is shown as a red X. Follow the installation instructions and go to custom and install the Controller driver and Sound drivers ONLY. Some people at the time of this post were saying that SBZ_CD_L13_1_01_08 was more stable but I am using SBZ_CD_L13_1_01_10. Once this process is finished install the Drivers from HERE. You should have sound but no control over sound blaster Z setting such as EQ as the control panel is NOT installed by windows 10 automatically. Now let windows install its own driver for the Sound card. I also use CCleaner but you don't need to. Open RUN and type "regedit" and delete the Creative Tech keys.ġ) Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Creative TechĢ) Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Creative Tech You can do this before the bios changes, it doesn't really matter but this step MUST be done before trying to install sound blaster Z drivers.Ģ)Have "Show Hidden folders" on to find this file easily ** C:\ProgramData\Creativeģ)C:\Users\YOUR COMPUTER NAME\AppData\Local\Creative I then uninstalled all drivers and removed all creative folders and registry keys I could find. Save and exit after making the change to your bios and allow system to reboot. I only discovered this AFTER disabling onboard sound in my bios. In my case it would cause windows start up sounds to cut out or be choppy. Onboard audio can cause conflicts with sound cards. Find out how to do this by reading your Mother Board Manual or Google your boards name for videos or guides on how to do it. Now go into your Bios and deactivate onboard sound so that the only option for you will be the sound card. now to the fix.įirst turn off windows fast boot which you can read how to do HERE. The problem reoccurred when I installed the Sound Blaster Z drivers again and all the above problems reoccurred. This was without any Sound blaster software installed. Now when 1709 completed I had sound for the first time AFTER a shutdown and cold boot. I would then reinstall drivers and would get the green bars in volume mixer but still no sound and very slow video streaming, again with no sound. So my problem consisted of Sound Blaster Z either producing no sound with no sound signal visible in volume mixer which was often accompanied by slow video streaming or none at all. This works everytime for me so it will work if you are still having problems with no sound after a cold boot/start. Both options work fine.īelow is a detail process for clearing your system of Creative files and starting fresh. Alternatively got to menu and select restart whilst holding down shift. Hit enter and select safe boot then restart PC. To enter safe mode go to RUN and type MSCONFIG. If using the method below do NOT use 2017 drivers. If you do use SAFE MODE successfully please reply to post stating so for the benefit of others. I am yet to try this but will have to in the future I am sure. This was advice from Creative and has worked for other. Please try to instal drivers for Soundblaster cards in SAFE MODE. ***UPDATE*** Issues seem to continue with 18** feature updates. I Deferred updates for 2 years but when 1709 was pushed it circumvented my deferment so I decided to give it a try before the customary Rollback of the OS to 16**. My Sound Blaster Z would produce no sound after Windows 10 creators and anniversary updates. This is the first post I have made and hope it helps because I have had this problems for over 2 years.
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