i just got a new sound card for my new speakers and i got a Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 and i got a Logitech Z-5300 and when i play halo with EAX on the guys voice sounds like an alien or something and the sound is scratchy and wierd. i need help i went to the website to get drivers and it said i got the latest drivers. help please. thanks in advance

I have SB Audigy in each of my systems (of some version or another, they're all different i believe) and I have a SB Live in one and they all did the same for me when I used to play Red Faction I believe it was. I turned off EAX though and things were fine. I could never find a solution either, and perhaps this post isn't really helpful... but the drivers don't seem to be the issue (I had actually downgraded mine to try that)... I'm not sure where the problem is derived, but it did it for me too on 4 completely different machines, so my solution was eventually down to turning off EAX.

but the only reason i got the sound card is so i could hook it up to my 5.1 speakers and have surround sound on EAX

Dear Equilibrium: I don't know if this will work but a had a similar problem with a different sound card. Try this, it worked once for me... 1) Go to the Add/Remove Programs control panel and try to first remove all software associated with your sound card. 2) Shut down the computer. Remove the sound card. Restart the computer. 3) Then restart the computer and shut down again. 4) Reinstall the sound card in a different slot, start the computer and reinstall the software. I believe this will assign a different IRQ number to the sound card. Also you might want to check the jack you have you speakers plugged into on the new sound card. If this doesn't work then I don't know what else to tell you. Good luck. wayne

i still need help its still scratchy

Do you have Morpheus? I had the same problem and by accident noticed something wierd when I was using Morpheus, I uninstalled it and haven't had the problem since.

no i dont have morpheus.