Hi all,
I got a problem with this sound card which I am trying to install on my newly-built pc. The SoundMax sound card that came with the motherboard was quite alright, just a few instances of cracking sounds when playing Medieval II TW and SupCom, At that time, everything works fine. Then last weekend I decided to upgrade, thinking the X-Ram on X-Fi would make a huge difference in MII:TW(according to the game's welcome intro, it runs best on X-Fi). Well it did make a huge difference, I cannot now use my PC and play games. what a huge mistake that decision was. It has been hell since then. Constant crashing(BSOD) and reboot. A quick search revealed that this particular line of cards are very problematic.
The card wouldn't get recognized by XP(Sound and Audio Device doesn't show the card, just greyed out). Device manager shows Media Control Device, X-Fi, Audio Codec and Legacy devices. Attempting to play any sound files results in "Windows Media player cannot play file due to problem with sound device". Also, ever since installing the sound card and drivers, my PC is now taking like 5 minutes to shut down/start up. All three X-Fi start-up files enabled in MSConfig.
I wouldn't have bought this sound card if I only knew it has so many issues. Should have done more research
Here's my rig:
Asus Striker Extreme (flashed to latest BIOS 1305, same issue)
Intel QX6850
2GB Corsair Memory
BFG 8800GTX
850W ToughPower PSU
400GB Seagate HDD
WinXP SP2
X-Fi Fatal1ty ExtremeGamer(useless but expensive piece of junk)
No overclocking(yet), tried everything including reinstalling XP (10 times so far), putting on a different PCI slot, updating the BIOS, using the driver from CD and the updated one on CL site. Checking IRQ for conflicts. integrated sound, temperature and even trying on another PC(P4 2.4Ghz). Checking/unchecking the X-Fi startup files. Uninstalling and reinstalling drivers.
Has anyone have any more suggestions or experience with this product? It's been really frustrating and make me want to swear at Creative for creating such crappy product.
Thanks for any feedback or suggestion!
I got a problem with this sound card which I am trying to install on my newly-built pc. The SoundMax sound card that came with the motherboard was quite alright, just a few instances of cracking sounds when playing Medieval II TW and SupCom, At that time, everything works fine. Then last weekend I decided to upgrade, thinking the X-Ram on X-Fi would make a huge difference in MII:TW(according to the game's welcome intro, it runs best on X-Fi). Well it did make a huge difference, I cannot now use my PC and play games. what a huge mistake that decision was. It has been hell since then. Constant crashing(BSOD) and reboot. A quick search revealed that this particular line of cards are very problematic.
The card wouldn't get recognized by XP(Sound and Audio Device doesn't show the card, just greyed out). Device manager shows Media Control Device, X-Fi, Audio Codec and Legacy devices. Attempting to play any sound files results in "Windows Media player cannot play file due to problem with sound device". Also, ever since installing the sound card and drivers, my PC is now taking like 5 minutes to shut down/start up. All three X-Fi start-up files enabled in MSConfig.
I wouldn't have bought this sound card if I only knew it has so many issues. Should have done more research
Here's my rig:
Asus Striker Extreme (flashed to latest BIOS 1305, same issue)
Intel QX6850
2GB Corsair Memory
BFG 8800GTX
850W ToughPower PSU
400GB Seagate HDD
WinXP SP2
X-Fi Fatal1ty ExtremeGamer(useless but expensive piece of junk)
No overclocking(yet), tried everything including reinstalling XP (10 times so far), putting on a different PCI slot, updating the BIOS, using the driver from CD and the updated one on CL site. Checking IRQ for conflicts. integrated sound, temperature and even trying on another PC(P4 2.4Ghz). Checking/unchecking the X-Fi startup files. Uninstalling and reinstalling drivers.
Has anyone have any more suggestions or experience with this product? It's been really frustrating and make me want to swear at Creative for creating such crappy product.
Thanks for any feedback or suggestion!