X-Fi sounds like my mobile phone in Vista 64

ChrisD. · 4 Nov 2007 at 15:05

It's perfect in XP, but I've moved over to Vista and the only mare I'm having is my sound card. It's the X-Fi Fatal1ty and I'm using the drivers download from Creative's website. It sounds good tbh, but every now and then when listening to music I get a nasty hissing/scratching sounds, almost as if you're loosing FM reception for a second.

What drivers are you using? Also, is there a download somewhere of a ripped OEM disc as I'm sure the problem lies within the web release drivers.

Please help, I really want Vista on but if I can't find a solution then I'll be going back to XP.

Bony Maloney · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:30

It's a known problem with Vista x64 and 4 gig of ram. Creative seem to be twiddling their thumbs with a fix, so some kind soul has modded a set of drivers that sort the problem. I installed these today and my X-FI Extreme Music sounds, like a new card. Here's a link to the thread. I think the oem Vista driver disc download is linked somewhere in there also.

http://forums.creative.com/creative...essage.id=24495&view=by_date_ascending&page=1

ChrisD. · 4 Nov 2007 at 23:20

Cheers mate. I'll give it a go. It's a shame that Creative make such good cards but their drivers are pump.

gurusan · 4 Nov 2007 at 23:23

The drivers above fixed the problem for me as well.

ChrisD. · 4 Nov 2007 at 23:24

Excellent. Downloading the driver and the Audio Console now. Fingers crossed as otherwise I'll be going back to XP. Never thought I'd say this but I'm very happy with Vista!

Bony Maloney · 4 Nov 2007 at 23:33

If you have a problem with no sound from your rear speakers,after installing the modded drivers read through the thread above, there is a fix

ChrisD. · 5 Nov 2007 at 10:00

Bony Maloney said:
If you have a problem with no sound from your rear speakers,after installing the modded drivers read through the thread above, there is a fix

I do as a matter of fact. The rear sound is coming through the fronts. Not to matter, I'm doing a rebuild, my C: is 35 % fragmented and it's all in locked system files. I don't think Vista formatted the partition properly either as it still picks up the XP MBR for a split second at boot up.

Going to run XP SP2 install, fully format the drive, reboot, clear the MBR and then put Vista on again. Hopefully it will sort out my little niggles.

Minstadave · 5 Nov 2007 at 16:27

MilanoChris said:
I do as a matter of fact. The rear sound is coming through the fronts. Not to matter, I'm doing a rebuild, my C: is 35 % fragmented and it's all in locked system files. I don't think Vista formatted the partition properly either as it still picks up the XP MBR for a split second at boot up.

Going to run XP SP2 install, fully format the drive, reboot, clear the MBR and then put Vista on again. Hopefully it will sort out my little niggles.

You might have to redirect the speaker outputs, you can do it in the THX console iirc.

Greenlizard0 · 5 Nov 2007 at 17:50

Hmm glad that there is a fix. I have 4GB of ram sitting on my desk I'm just waiting to install it and get Vista going..

MagicalTrevor · 5 Nov 2007 at 18:06

I have one of the PCI-E X-Fi cards and I haven't encountered this problem... hum.

gurusan · 5 Nov 2007 at 18:09

And you have 4gb ram? Maybe the PCI-E cards are fine with 4gb

hohum · 5 Nov 2007 at 20:48

New driver was released today to fix this problem.

http://uk.europe.creative.com/support/downloads/download.asp?MainCategory=1&nRegionFK=&nCountryFK=&nLanguageFK=&sOSName=Windows+Vista+64-bit&region=3&Product_Name=X-Fi+XtremeMusic&Product_ID=14066&modelnumber=&driverlang=1033&OS=27&select=0&x=24&y=10

Fixes:

* Resolves an issue for Windows Vista 64-bit systems with 4 GB RAM
* Resolves loud speaker noise when restarting your computer
* Resolves an issue that causes OpenAL games not to respond

Was also posted in another thread on here.