Sound Blaster X-Fi and Windows 7 64-bit

Anonymous
2009-10-23T03:31:55+00:00

I have a Sound Blaster X-Fi on a Dell XPS 710.  Installed Windows 7 64-bit.  Everything went great.  Downloaded and installed the new drivers from Creative for this sound card and Windows 7/64.  It installs but I get a staticy echo sound to everything.  Is there a fix?  The drivers are dated 6/2009.

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Anonymous
2009-10-29T22:07:34+00:00

: WORKAROUND:

I claim NO responsibility if you mess this up but you can use this as a temporary work around until it is resolved by creative labs without removing memory... physically.

First run MSCONFIG

select the boot tab

select advanced options

under max memory select 3990 (or any value under 4 GB is fine IE anything less than 1024 * 4)

This will reduce the amount of memory that the PC uses which will allow you to hear the audio.  There is also BETA testing of newer drivers from Creative (the most recent batch of BETAS did not resolve the issue) that I am a part of.  When there is a working beta I will respond so we can all utilize our 64x machines.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-07-31T07:48:34+00:00

    1Stonewall01, Thank you much. I was contemplating going back to the ole 32 bit XP OS but this seem to be working.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-07-23T21:31:15+00:00

    Hi all,

    I have been tracking this thread for some time as it is one of the most progressive at solving this problem with X-Fi Xtream cards. I have the Tinny sound followed bt crackling issue.  My set up is.

    Dell XPS 8100 2.8GHz i7

    8Gb RAM

    Windows 7 64 bit

    Creative Technology SB X-Fi Xtream Audio PCI Express.

    This is the exact system that Dell shipped to me last March. Is your X-Fi Xtream Music card a PCI Express based card. If so how can they say it is not compatible under paid support. They ship my system as a set build. I have posted on the Dell Community desktop/audio forum and got a rough welcome for being anti Dell. This is only my sixth Dell after all.

    All this driver mess is becoming a serious embarrassment for all the companies involved. I am getting the feeling they are hoping that we all write off what we have spent on these cards and quietly just go away.

    I am paranoid about using this third party driver as I am still under warranty and something has to give on all this soon. How much money has been spent and time wasted trying to solve a problem that these  technical support teams are supposed to be doing.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-05-30T05:22:26+00:00

    be mad at dell for building poor quality computers,and be mad at creative for purposefully releasing sound cards without vista/win7 support. ;)

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-10-30T05:45:01+00:00

    staticy echo is an issue with your speakers being setup as a mic. Go under your sound settings and under "speakers" settting under "Levels" tab, make sure to MUTE the microphone. 

    http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5189/soundsettings.png

    I am running windows 7 64 bit with x-fi extreme gamer and I got the drivers from creative's website, they work fine for now. Hope this helps someone!

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