Sound Blaster X-Fi and Windows 7 64-bit

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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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: 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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2012-06-07T17:33:48+00:00

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