Do I need these Creative files loading at startup?

[devnulllore]

Hi,

I have a plain old Audigy 2 ZS sound card running fine on Windows 7 x64 and all I use it for is music and system sounds. Do I need either the ASIO driver or the file called ctxfihlp.exe running at startup? The XFI in ctxfihlp.exe has me thinking it may be for the X-FI sound cards, which I know uses the same chipset as the Audigy cards but still, do I need them for just plain audio output?

Thanks,

[techbeck]

  On 22/08/2012 at 22:19, devnulllore said:

Hi,

I have a plain old Audigy 2 ZS sound card running fine on Windows 7 x64 and all I use it for is music and system sounds. Do I need either the ASIO driver or the file called ctxfihlp.exe running at startup? The XFI in ctxfihlp.exe has me thinking it may be for the X-FI sound cards, which I know uses the same chipset as the Audigy cards but still, do I need them for just plain audio output?

Thanks,

http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/ctxfihlp.exe.html

As for disabling them at startup, not 100 percent sure. I know that I normally disable sound files from loading on startup and never had a problem. Temp disable them and if everything works, you are fine.

[devnulllore]

  On 22/08/2012 at 22:24, techbeck said:

http://www.neuber.co...xfihlp.exe.html

As for disabling them at startup, not 100 percent sure. I know that I normally disable sound files from loading on startup and never had a problem. Temp disable them and if everything works, you are fine.

mmk, I was just afraid if I disable them I would somehow damage my soundcard (ie... always read drivers can damage such hardware) and not being able to reinstall them in the exact manner. I guess I could just backup the registry entry they are loading from and remerge it if I have to.

Thanks,

[CG-88]

I have always disabled the majority of processes/services as and when they appear in msconfig, and get rid of some when I first install windows or anything like that and never had any problems.

EDIT: to answer your question, for normal audio output nah just disable them :)

[azspeedbullet]

i have a creative sound card similar to what you use, and i noticed if i disable those programs then i dont get sound in certain programs

[Detection]

You won't damage the hardware but you might hear a loss of sound quality, I have 'SB X-Fi MB 2' hocus pocus stuff for my soundcard and you can hear the difference if it's not running

[soldier1st]

You can't damage your soundcard(s) by disabling startups, only functionality would be impacted.If i were you, i'd leave it alone unless it causes an issue.

[CG-88]

if it causes an issue reenable it again...............