If you have an Audigy 2 ZS card running on Windows 7 with the latest drivers installed you may have come across what looks like a codec problem with Windows Media Player not playing anything, MP3s, MPEGs you name it.

Well the solution couldn’t be more annoyingly simple. When you start the Sound manager in Windows 7 if you’re getting a prompt that looks something like this…

Then what you need to do is hit the yes button, for some reason this interferes with Windows Media Player. Whether or not Creative will release drivers that stop this from happening I don’t know, but that’s the fix.