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
    2011-05-27T14:15:12+00:00

    I don't think Creative will ever fix this. Thy keep saying it's my motherboards fault. Seams to me if it works with 2 gig it should work with 4 or 6 or what ever my motherboard can handle. I bot this card from them be for I upgraded to win 7 64 bit because it was supposed to work with the upgrade...I will now have to buy from a competitor hoping that thy aren't uuum fabricating the truth also.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-04-19T19:16:20+00:00

    The problem is with certain Creative cards from my experience. I had a Xi-Fi Extreme Gamer card that I finally removed from my system. It worked great until I upgraded to Win7-64 and added more memory; after that the only way I could get my sound and mic to work properly was to use the MSConfig routine to limit my memory to less than 4Gb. I removed the Xi-Fi and bought a cheap Rocketfish card, which from what I've read is basically a rebranded Creative card, and it works fine with 8Gb of memory on my system. I'm not really impressed with the Rocketfish card but it was cheap and it does work. When I have the money available I'll buy a better soundcard and it will NOT be a Creative card. Windows 7 has been out well over a year now and Creative still hasn't fixed this problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-04-12T15:45:24+00:00

    This worked for  a while but the problem is back . I dont have a dell PC . the problem seems to lie with windows 7 and the Creative drivers. 

    It took me ages to get the sound card to work at all without windows hanging . Im now running all the latest updates and creative drivers . The sound is better but by no means perfect

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-04-12T15:17:34+00:00

    Thank worked a treat ! - thanks

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