G73 and EAX......

I have a fresh clean install of WIN7 installed. When I bought the lappy from BB everything worked great. I have the newest drivers installed. When it boots it says no SRS compatabile device found, and I have no idea how I can get EAX sound to work again.

I need EAX3.0 for COD2

Any help would be great!

 

google/download/install Realtek drivers
restart
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profit?

 

as stated above. I have the newest drivers installed. I still get the message upon startup

and EAX doesnt work.

 

Pop in the drivers cd it came with.

I had the same error on my fresh win7 using the drivers off the asus website until I uninstalled the SRS drivers and used the cd to put in the creative ones.

Really though, just leave everything other than the realtek drivers off your install.

 

The SRS message happens because you downloaded the audio driver from ASUS. You need to go into "Programs and Features" and uninstall SRS. This has been reported before and there is no reason you couldn't have found this doing a search.

I have no idea what ieatrocks is talking about, you do want the Realtek audio drivers installed. It's Creative that's highly questionable.

 

BTW it's because windows7 (actually windows vista) changed the Direct X audio (so the DirectX audio API's no longer work as before) so you won't get EAX in older games unless you try realtek 3dgetsoundback or smth, or creative alchemy universal
meh

 

No CD came with the unit from BB.

I didnt search for the SRS problem because it wasnt my main focus, I just threw it in with my need for EAX.

Where would I find the alchemy universal software at? Is this something danialK has made? and what is smth?

 

When you install the Creative package, it includes an application call ALchemy. This will install 2 directsound libraries into your game directory to allow for EAX support.

 

Ah, I see. It was the way the sentence was prioritized. Sorry about that. Anyway, at least now you can fix the SRS error.

 

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Are you tired Kalim? That's basically what I said.

Older games need either OpenAL or ALchemy for 5.1 surround support in Vista/7, but what else is EAX offering? The ability to make your sounds appear to be underwater, or an auditorium? The multi-channel support is entirely useless on this laptop unless you:
A) spend the majority of your time gaming over HDMI into a home theater.
or
B) use a usb headset with multiple speakers in each ear, like a razer megalodon.

Even then though, most modern games do not require OpenAL/ALchemy. The biggest worry is usually Source engine games from vALVE, since most of them need the older winxp libraries to do multichannel properly.

I've never played a game that made use of the 128 channels and 4 distinct effects per channel of sound. Even if that were the case, I don't think the auditory difference would be so major as to justify installing the crapware from creative labs onto your install.

Install Realtek current drivers.
Install OpenAL if you need support for older/source engine games.
Ignore the rest of the creative software.

EDIT: realtek also offers the 3dsoundback which should enable 5.1 on vista/7 for older games, but I'm unsure about other EAX feature support.

 

you are wrong, OpenAL is a new audio library that is meant to be a superset of EAX, and most modern games use it instead of Direct X audio

 

It's old.
Meant to be a linux library.
Abandoned and picked up by creative labs.
Supports many EAX features, but is not a superset of EAX.
Most modern games use directX, but some add the additional OpenAL support, giving you the option of using either library. Just like adding OpenGL rendering in a game that also does dx9/10/11.

 

Where do I find the file I need to enable EAX though. Thats all I want. I have a USB headphone on the way, and at the current time and just using my turtle beach x-52 from my old system which had an audigy 2zx

 

Wasn't that already answered in post #8?

 

Kinda, which package and where do I find it at? Creatives website doesnt have anything that seems like it fits what Im looking for.

 

The Creative package is on your Driver DVD. It isn't available on Creative's site.

 

http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Documentation/OpenAL_Programmers_Guide.pdf

 

There was no DVD that came with the laptop. Its a bestbuy model.