Is there a problem with Creative Live! and AMD or something?

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When I got my PC upgraded, I basically got a new motherboard, processor, and video card. I noticed my sound card is completely fucked to hell. It worked fine before the upgrade, so obviously something in the upgrade process screwed up. I know it wasn't the video card, for obvious reasons. So that leaves the motherboard, and the AMD processor.

The reason I think it's the AMD is only because somebody mentioned something about AMDs having trouble with sound or something. I was playing WoW and I went to turn on Winamp and the music was really choppy and ick. I just casually mentioned it in the chat, and the one guy was like "Are you on an AMD?" And I was like yeah, and he said something about how AMDs do that.

Was this guy just being an idiot, or is there a legitimate problem? I'd like to know, because in the current state I can't even get my microphone set up, so going on vent is impossible, which really hurts the game experience.



If that has nothing to do with it, there's another possibility, I guess. In my device manager, in the sound card section, there is nothing about Creative in there at all. The only card listed is Realtek AC'97 Audio for VIA (R) Audio Controller. There is also Wave Device for Voice Modem. I'm not sure what that means. Is it possible that they changed my sound card when upgrading or something? I reinstalled my Creative drivers about 6 times, and even went online to try and download them, and nothing works. Every time after a fresh download I go to open the Audio HQ (Creative Live! software package) and it says I have no Creative card installed on my PC.