Windows 7 and Creative X-Fi

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Churma

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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kraken

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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.....

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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.

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Erland

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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..

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Unimatrix Xero

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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

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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.

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