Strange Soundblaster Z Control Panel issue

[ferazzz1985]

Hey guys, I am hoping someone has heard or seen anything like this since I am going nuts!

Basically I have sound from my card however the creative control panel is not working properly. This just happened randomly this evening out of nowhere so it is kind of weird. In the Creative Sound Blaster Z control panel I should have several tabs of options to choose from to customize my sound. (SBX Pro Studio, Crystallizer, Scout mode, Profiles) and so on. They are no longer available to choose from and the only Tab I get is a Cinematic tab which allow me to add either Dolby live or DTS.

Attempted Fixes:

Uninstalled with Revo Driver and also tried cleaning with Driver Sweeper.
Tried CD Drivers Again (still the panel won't give me the tabs it use to)
Tried an older Driver (still not working)
Removed sound card from PCI-E slot and re-installed card and re-installed drivers. (my tabs are still not there, no audio options except CINEMATICS

Basically I lost all my sound options, and this card serve me no use without these options/tabs to choose from.

System has no viruses/Trojans
No hardware changes since last build (slightly 3 months old)

EXTREMLY ANNOYED BY THIS BUG. If this is creative software problem, it should not be mine and everything should work as advertised.

Also keep in mind that I still do get sound from my speakers, I however no control over my sound settings and this control panel is not working



System

Intel I7 3770k
16gb Kingston ddr3 value
MSI GTX 580
Corsair 850watt PSU
Windows 8 64bit home
Crucial M4 128gb SSD


Thanks for any feedback or help anyone!

 

[ferazzz1985]

For anybody that may have answered forget it! I decided to just do a format and that seems to have fixed the problem for now!

Thanks anyway

 

[Lakku]

Did you run into the problem again? I had the EXACT same thing happen after two days of use. I use the DTS connect, so I suspect it has something to do with that. I haven't been able to correct it short of a reformat, which I don't want to do just yet. It's annoying because I got the card to use headphones when I needed and for the better sound/recording when using those headphones, and now I cant use those features.