5.1 + Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio + Vista = fail?

Senture · 5 Apr 2008 at 13:30

Got my wonderful 5.1 speakers today, gave them a quick trial under 2003 server using the xp drivers. The rear speakers worked then, but upon switching to vista and configuring them as 5.1 speakers, no rear output.

Am I missing somthing basic or are the creative drivers just not capable of doing 5.1 under vista? if so this X-Fi XA and bugger off to kingdom come.

steveo · 5 Apr 2008 at 13:55

am afraid to say that the creative drivers are just buggy as hell under vista theres that and the fact that creative have disabled a lot of the features of xfi under vista to try and force people to wiat and get the xfi2 cards

Uriel · 5 Apr 2008 at 13:56

Do you mean in games? If so you need to use Creative's Alchemy software to get surround sound for anything that uses DirectSound.

Game's bought on Steam are a little complicated to get running but it's possible.

Senture · 5 Apr 2008 at 14:28

Uriel said:
Do you mean in games? If so you need to use Creative's Alchemy software to get surround sound for anything that uses DirectSound.

I was doing the testing with HD movies and .ogg music files. I put the Alchemy software on when I first set up vista, but it resulted in it BSODing every boot up so I removed it.

Looks like it's either back to onboard I go, or back to XP.