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
    2010-05-30T05:22:26+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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  3. Anonymous
    2010-05-11T22:48:58+00:00

    I'd appreciate notification when there's a working beta.  I try your memory adjustment in the meantime.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-03-10T00:19:20+00:00

    I mis-spoke previously, linked the wrong drivers...The ones I am currently using were created by: Daniel Kawakami - Below is a link to the install I use. You can install the latest Creative driver, to get all the APPS (If you like the APPS), then run the setup.exe from this driver. It will prompt you and ask if you want to over-write your current driver or not.

    Currently I just have the driver installed and none of the creative applications and am working 100% with no crackling or popping.

    http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1T2FY414

    Hope it works for you too!

    Motherboard: ASUS M2N-E SLI

    OS: Windows 7 x64 Ultimate

    RAM: 4GB

    Sound Card: X-FI XtremeMusic

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