Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card

Strengths: Great sound quality. Plenty of control. Very simple install. (XP Pro)

Weakness: downloaded software updates sometimes "break" the Audigy software

The Audigy 2 is a MAJOR improvement over the Audigy. This card sounds great and practically installs itself. I've installed 3 in computers I've built over the past 9-12 months (All WIndows XP Pro) and they have worked spectacularly. I haven't had any problems with freezes related tothe sound card during any games or other applications. But then again I always had the latest drivers and patches...

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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card

Strengths: Works as advertised. Great Sound. Bought a couple of DVD-Audio discs and had my mind blown! Of course having the MegaWorks THX speakers helps.

Weakness: Diagnostics have never worked even with numerous software updates. Fortunately, I've never needed the diagnostics (knock on wood!)

I admit that the software update process is a tough one if you attempt to download and install all the various drivers manually. However, once I found out about their automatic update service here: www.americas.creative.... ...I've had no problems whatsoever.

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card

Strengths: Easy Setup, Excellent Sound

Weakness: None

To the person who gave it a 1 star just because he doesn't know how to install a sound card. Give me a break....I install the Audigy 2 sound card in 5 minutes. Work fine and trouble free. Great sound card and I recommend this sound card to everyone who doesn't want to spend the money for the Audigy 2 Platinum EX.

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card

Strengths: SQ is good. Haven't had install problems like other.

Weakness: Setup program is terrible. Not enough options.

I've had this card for 3 months with no complaints. For under $100, you can have great sound quality - assuming you can get it installed. I could get it installed on my fresh copy of XP Enterprise, but I wouldn't doubt others have had problems. The install program is terrible and does not have enough options. Overall, this is a solid 5.1 card.

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card

Strengths: No blue screens of death, able to boot almost every time dispite other troubles. Only took 13 days to find out it wont work with the only flavor of Windows that is gaming friendly.

Weakness: crashed every other game, the ones that didn't crash had the worst skipping sound/dropped sound. Driver installation "succeded" 1 out of 3 times (the worst system hang I've ever had).

First time I installed the drivers they installed, I rebooted, and the new creative sound/logo was chopped and skippy. I tried playing every game I had installed, and a few of them crashed back to the desktop, the rest had choppy/skippy sound and the intros were visually skippy, with skippy sound. I reinstalled the drivers multiple times, downloaded the "updated" driver, used their online...

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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card

Strengths: Card sounded excellent

Weakness: Quality is lacking

I bought the card eight months ago, and was highly impressed with the sound quality that it produced. After five months however it began to have problems. The card was not recognized by the Creative software. MS XP would install a driver for it anyway, and the card would produce sound, but not the quality that it originally had. It took three months to get an RMA from Creative. I sent the card in...

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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card

Strengths: none

Weakness: can't get it to work, locks up the computer, no tech support helped

I bought this card thinking that it would be a simple installation. I am running Windows XP and have all the requirements met with eas. I am also Cisco sertified so I know what I am doing. I read the instructions on the POSTER and started the installation but when it got to 95% it just locked up the machine. I never have complete lockups since I installed windows XP on an NTFS format hard drive....

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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card

Strengths: Nice sound

Weakness: Doesn't work well with windows XP all the time out of box webpage is horrible for understanding/ downloading what driver updates you want. Never got it to work on first installation try.

Well... The sound quality of this card is crazy and for gaming/watching dvd's azesome. But that's it. I have never been able to install sucessfully a sb live audigy or audigy 2 card. Seems that there is a bug with windows XP and errors with blah.dll cannot be found, please reinstall. Yeah, tried that and outside of the fact that their site goes in circles thier own drivers part of the wepage was...

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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card

Strengths: Decent sound, when working

Weakness: drivers just plain suck

I have installed this card twice, once on WXP, and now on W2K. It took me forever to get it to work on XP, it was not just a matter of no sound, or crashing games, like in a normal bad install, nooooo, this baby locks up the whole system. It crashes both xp and w2k on startup. I mean total lock ups, BSODs, system freezes, and restarts on loading. Major havoc. On w2k it was on a fresh install,...

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Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 sound card

Strengths: very good sound playback of recordings, its awsome ...i am no computer pro but i instaled i no problem and it has never crashed my computer !i dont know what these other retards are talking about.....

Weakness: needs more inputs and better ones i had to buy all sorts of adapters to modify it to my home studio

i purchased it at a very reasonable price hoping i could use it to start a little home recording studio ...because i am on a budjet i cannot afford a rack mountable $1000.00 sound card! after buying the nessacary adapters i hooked it up to my mixing counsoul and low and behold presto ...i have a recording studio i run reason cubase and fruity loops simaltainiously without a hitch.... so if your...

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