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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  2. Anonymous
    2012-12-21T15:38:25+00:00

    Just by way of an FYI, just built a new Z77-based i3570K system with 8GB RAM running Windows 7 SP1 64-bit.  My old X-Fi Elite Pro works flawlessly with the new system, including OpenAL.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-06-07T17:33:48+00:00

    EXCELLENT !!! all working good with this ! thank you very much !!

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-04-11T02:43:55+00:00

    I am not certain if reducing the memory available did the trick or maybe a combination of ALL the diagnostics but I have SOUND! :)  THANK you!!  I have a Dell XPS 400 Inspirion.  I ran the Windows Advisor and was given the clear to Windows 7.  I saw the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and thought to try that instead.  What a mess!  I lost the sound card.  Dell's driver website is - No Help.  And, Creative was difficult to navigate but finally, after I reverted back to Windows 7,  I got their diagnostics app to work after reducing the memory, the system began installing Windows 7 updates.

    I think I will wait a while for Windows 8.  What I previewed was exciting.  Up to this moment I had not seen functional software for touch techology.  Win 8 and IE 10 achieves this.  I like the circular feel to the software where you can approach a task from many different ways.  For example, IE 10 can be used as touch or regular windows.  Nice!  Made me want to buy a touch screen :)  I think I will wait a bit.  I do not like spending so much time testing new technology with little to no tech support.  Computer's have become so integrated that maybe next time Microsoft could pay some attention to the other hardware components.  Even though I believe you cannot beat Microsoft or Nvidea customer support :)  I thought the Nvidea Win 8 driver was awesome!

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