Creative Sound Blaster Z Series

It won't happen in Firefox 28 or before. It's only Blink engine browsers that have the problem.

 

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Stop spamming with those dumb pictures. This is not 4chan or something.

 

I guess the anti-fun police showed up, back in line ladies. :whip:

 

Hello to all. I just bought a sound card ZxR but i heard something strange or maybe is normal.When i switch from Speaker's to Headphone in software from creative or viceversa i hear a noise wich is coming from the case where is mounted the sound card.Is like a click coming inside from case probably from sound card.This shoud be normal ?

 

that's normal
the card has a internal switch .you can't listen to HP and speakers at the same time
by design

 

Most modern soundcards use relays to switch signals, either input or output or both. It is 100% normal. You are hearing the relays clicking and rerouting the internal signals of the card.

 

Is anyone experiencing high cpu usage while the soundblaster control panel is open? I'm not sure how long it's been doing this. The only reason I even noticed it was because I had task manager open at the same time. I either have to close out the control panel or switch from headphone to speakers just to fix the high cpu usage.

 

Anyone have any thoughts? I uninstalled the drivers and installed them again. Still the same issue.

 

which process do you see using the cpu like that ? (is it sbz.exe? )
also, whats "high" cpu usage, like, 99% or what ?

 

Not here, using the SB ZxR. Is your virus scanner maybe causing it?

 

It's labeled sound blaster control panel and sound blaster audio service. The cpu usage can get at high as 45% combined. I'm not sure if it's the antivirus. I can check and report back.

 

Yep I was initially, but seems to be OK now after a reinstall. What drivers u using? Installed the latest DK pack.....

 

I'm using the most recent drivers that are on the creative website. What is the DK pack?

 

Don't think yours is supported by Daniel_K..

Not entirely certain what I did to stop the high cpu load, lemme check and get back to you.

 

I'm using the same Sound Blaster Z and don't experience any issues whatosever.

I do, however, am looking for a new decent set of cans to make use of the 600 ohm amp on the headphone jack, if its any good that is.

So, what do you guys recommend will sound best with this sound card? Budget around 150$ maximum.

 

Seems to be the sound blaster control panel (that opens from Windows speaker settings). You can uninstal it....

 

I need the control panel though. So uninstalling it isnt really any option. Im going to try a couple things first.

 

I have the same issue PhazeDelta, everything worked perfectly until I did a fresh Win 8 install a couple of weeks back. Since then it's been taking quite a long time to open the control panel and it has a high CPU usage. I've added exceptions to antivirus, makes no difference. I've done clean installs of the drivers too and rolled back to release drivers. Still the same. The only thing I can think of at this stage is maybe a windows update is causing the issue.