Windows 7 and Creative X-Fi

By Robbobloke
in The Fast Ring (Insider Previews)

 Share

Recommended Posts

Proficient

Churma

Posted
Posted

Well the X-Fi CMSS-3D does not work at all. I can get speaker identification through the creative console and through the windows 7 speaker test. Just no audio redirection to the rear speakers. W.E.A.K

=)

im having issues with win7 x64 i installed the vista drivers from creatives website and im getting crackling to high hell, is there a fix?

Which set of drivers are you using? I am using the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Beta Driver 2.17.0006 which are located here >>> http://support.creative.com/downloads/down...ownloadId=10818

I have no crackling at all. I installed via the shipped software with my XFi and then updated to the beta driver. Still no rear audio though.

Proficient

Churma

Posted
Posted
Well the X-Fi CMSS-3D does not work at all. I can get speaker identification through the creative console and through the windows 7 speaker test. Just no audio redirection to the rear speakers. W.E.A.K

=)

Which set of drivers are you using? I am using the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Beta Driver 2.17.0006 which are located here >>> http://support.creative.com/downloads/down...ownloadId=10818

I have no crackling at all. I installed via the shipped software with my XFi and then updated to the beta driver. Still no rear audio though.

Odd I could not edit my post tonight but I have full 5.1. I can play movies and counterstrike source with 5.1. Just analog steering to rear channels via Xfi CMSS-3D from a stereo source does not work.

Contributor

kraken

Posted
Posted

Well, after awhile trying to get 5.1 to work I went over to my Realtek integrated audio.... Guess what I have 5.1! It doesn't sound as good as the creative sound.....

I really hope we get some Win 7 drivers from creative! Or maybe someone will make some like for Vista.....

O well.....

Grand Master

rajputwarrior

Posted
Posted
^

Any special way? Mine doesn't....

I am running x64 edition. Already had the latest drivers from them from xp (same package contains all the OS). Chanaged the compatibility to Vista. Installed them, restarted the computer. When into the audio control panel changed that to 5.1, went into the system preferences, changes that to 5.1 and tested it out and everything works great. I have the x-5500 if that makes a difference, but it shouldn't.

that's all i did and everything worked great.

Contributor

Erland

Posted
Posted

I installed x64 last night and I'm having real trouble getting my X-Fi Extremegamer to work correctly. I'm getting a lot of crackling, distortion and almost a dragging of the sounds. I'm not even fussed about 5.1 as I've only got a 2.1 set up, so a basic driver install would do me fine.

I tried to use DriverSweeper to remove the Creative drivers, but I gather that it's not been updated for Win7 properly as it wasn't able to remove a lot of the entries. Has anyone got a list of what is installed so I can manually remove them and start from the beginning?

I'll try to extract the driver alone from the pack, which files are just the driver and not the software?

Apart from that, everything has been working perfectly..

Grand Master

Unimatrix Xero

Posted
Posted (edited)

your having the same issue as me Anewhope, im using my onboard sound chip atm and tbh i actully thinking of taking out my x-fi and getting my TV card back in

EDIT: from a little hunting on the creative boards it may look like like anyone with a Nforce 4 mobo and a X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro card is shagged

Edited by Unimatrix Xero
Grand Master

Denis W. Veteran

Posted
  • Veteran
Posted
EDIT: from a little hunting on the creative boards it may look like like anyone with a Nforce 4 mobo and a X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty Pro card is shagged

Yeah, that might be the case.

Stupid chipset. :hmmm:

My volume seems to go up and down by itself. Anyone else experience this?

Can happen in Firefox, Spotify, MCE so it appears to be the drivers. A bit like LALALlalalalaLALALALAlalalaLA...

In the Sound properties dialog, under the Communications tab set it to "Do nothing." See if the problem returns.

This topic is now closed to further replies.
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

  • Posts

    • Microsoft unveils new Surface Laptop with improved trackpad, Snapdragon X2, and more

      By FunkyMike · Posted

      Not even an OLED display on the laptops. Also it seems that the laptop design isn't the same as the Surface Ultra model. Looks like bargain bin at high prices.
    • Microsoft announces 12th-gen Surface Pro with Snapdragon X2 processors

      By tsupersonic · Posted

      make your own notch - it's not that hard
    • VirtualBox 7.2.10

      By Copernic · Posted

      VirtualBox 7.2.10 by Razvan Serea VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, and Solaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, 7, 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x and 6.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD. Some of the features of VirtualBox are: Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox. Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers. VirtualBox 7.2.10 changelog: VMM: Fixed issue when CentOS 10 VM was not booting due to the message "Fatal glibc error: CPU does not support x86-64-v3" (​github:gh-642) Devices/EFI: Fixed booting issue when ARM VM had less than 1024 MiB of RAM assigned (​github:gh-679) USB: Fixed issue when it was not possible to attach USB device to headless VM on Apple Silicon/macOS 26.4.1 (​github:gh-631) Storage: Fixed issue when VIRTIO-SCSI device was not recognized as SSD device by guest system (​github:gh-634) Network: Fixed issue in E1000 emulation code which triggered debug log creation (​github:gh-645) Network: Fixed issue in E1000 emulation code which prevented OS/2 guest from booting (​github:gh-683) Linux Host: Fixed issue when VMs could not be started due to kernel oops (​github:gh-639) Linux Host and Guest: Fixed issue when kernel modules were failing to build with openSUSE 16.0 kernel Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for kernel 7.1 Linux Host and Guest: Added extra fixes for RHEL 9.8 kernel (​github:gh-676) Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to build source code using NASM instead of YASM as the assembler (​github:gh-520) Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for Extended Data Control Protocol for clipboard sharing with Plasma on Wayland guests (​github:gh-33) Linux Guest Additions: Added extra fixes for preventing vboxvideo kernel module build with kernel version 7.0 and newer (​github:gh-655) OS/2 Guest Additions: Fixed issue when Shared Folders automount and clipboard sharing stopped working (​github:gh-551) Download: VirtualBox 7.2.10 | 170.0 MB (Open Source) Download: VirtualBox 7.2.10 Extension Pack | 19.1 MB View: VirtualBox Home Page | Screenshot Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware
    • UK to ban under-16s from social media following a six-week trial with teenagers

      By FloatingFatMan · Posted

      OK, now ask yourself how are they going to enforce that law? By requiring every single adult to prove their age and provide their legal identity documents to an UNREGULATED 3rd party company that already has a long track record of multiple data breaches. Not to mention, parliament have voted AGAINST this ban, twice, and Starmer is going ahead anyway. So, where's the democracy here, because that looks like dictatorship to me. The solution here is parental responsibility, not government control. Run some public service announcements on TV and UK social media teaching parents how to setup parental controls. That's already been proven to actually work. But the, this is not and has NEVER been about keeping kids safe. It's about control and monitoring. Watching what you're doing online and controlling what you can see and what you can say.
    • what other retro software do yall use

      By +InsaneNutter · Posted

      Interesting read. I knew the adware was quite controversial at the time, however never realised to the point The Guardian wrote an article about Patchou. I just said no and enjoyed his creation, I’d probably be a lot more wary of something like that today though.

  • Recent Achievements

    • One Month Later
      Prasann earned a badge
      One Month Later
    • Week One Done
      Prasann earned a badge
      Week One Done
    • First Post
      Dys Topia earned a badge
      First Post
    • Collaborator
      vjlex earned a badge
      Collaborator
    • Reacting Well
      Dys Topia earned a badge
      Reacting Well

  • Popular Contributors

    1. 1
      +primortal
      521
    2. 2
      +Edouard
      180
    3. 3
      PsYcHoKiLLa
      104
    4. 4
      Steven P.
      88
    5. 5
      ATLien_0
      68
    Show More

  • Tell a friend

    Love Neowin? Tell a friend!