Unixlord

Pfft.... seriously, I've picked the perfect title for this thread.

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Varroa

the only people having driver issues are those that are running Vista from my understanding. I am running XP and I have ZERO driver issues, everything just works and all my games, MP3s and movies haven't sounded better. I use either a set of Seinnheiser 555 headphones or my Logitech Z5500 for listening and I couldn't be happier.

IModIntel

Even when I was running XP and had my SB Live! card I was always having a different problem with it... for example starting up windows and randomly not detecting the card.

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AfterLife

The X-Fi runs rock solid in windows XP x64 no issues what so ever, the problem lies in vista or maybe creatives drivers for vista.

HaZe303

I have two X-FI´s, both in Vista machines. One Titanium X-FI PCI-E in my HTPC and a Xtreme Gamer 64mb Fatal1ty edition in my desktop/game machine and both have ZERO issues on Vista. Sound is perfect and so is performance. I dont know where all the issues come from that so many talk about?? I play games all the time, no crackling or anything. Both systems are Intel based, the htpc has P45 chipset with a e8400 cpu + a 8800gtx, and the game pc has the X38 chipset and a Q9450 cpu and X-Fire with 2 4850´s and still the X-FI runs perfectly in all games??? Maybe im a superiour user??? ZERO problems, 100% perfect sound.

Ps. NO im no Creative employee, and no im no fanboy. But I would never buy 2 of the same chips if I had problems with em?? Oh, btw, Vista64 Ultimate on both machines.

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Unixlord

Thanks for that Haze. Any particular workarounds or tweaks you had to implement to get to this status?

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Arklon

Eh. Better than the shit stuck on built by Creative cards which will be way way way outlasted by one computer.

AfterLife

Hey Haze I would love to know how you got your cards working in vista x64, I have a XtremeMusic and I have tried every driver released from when vista came out till now and all of them have issues in fear, unreal tournament 3, bio shock , stalker and some other games I cant remember. I major issue I noticed is the sound quality detoriates when playing music through winamp , I have even noticed this when playing flash games over the net too , it gets to the point where the sound starts crackling or gets distorted and I have to restart my computer to fix it. The creative tech concluded its a problem with windows vista and even after SP1 I have the same issue. MS blames creative driers and creative blames MS and I am stuck with a card that only works on windows XP.

Unixlord

So I take it that no cards in creative's lineup use solid caps?

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IModIntel

Can't afford it. They're spending too much money on their brainwashing campaigns.

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