Those of you using it, keep a lookout for today it appears to have borked my xfi drivers! I had to reinstall the driverset fresh to solve the problem.
Situation
After exiting a heavy round of Rainbow Six Vegas the X-Fi Mode Changer Utility would normally revert the mode to Entertainment mode but this time it didn't and upon exiting I saw a BSOD and the driver that caused it was a CTSxxx.sys file which is one of the XFI drivers.
I rebooted and whenever I tried to enter Game Mode I would get a windows popup telling me in order for changes to take effect I would have to restart windows...I clicked "Yes" to reboot and nothing happened.. during shutdown windows shuts down runing services one by one and it looked like Since Audio Console could not load Game Mode properly Windows was hanging on the sound driver to finish its action before shutting down (which it did about 10 mins later)
Anyway I did a search on Creative forums and another guy also using xfi mode changer had the exact same problem. he too solved it with a reinstall of the xfi drivers!.
Now I know mode changer works well but with some games it seems to try and change mode too late or too early hence corrupting the xfi driver. Perhaps this is why Creative did not put an auto mode switcher into the audio console? It makes sense now.
I have now stopped using mode changer and have bound creative audio console to a programmable key on my logitech keyboard for quick access when modes need changing.
Guess manual is the safest way from here on
/my two pence
Situation
After exiting a heavy round of Rainbow Six Vegas the X-Fi Mode Changer Utility would normally revert the mode to Entertainment mode but this time it didn't and upon exiting I saw a BSOD and the driver that caused it was a CTSxxx.sys file which is one of the XFI drivers.
I rebooted and whenever I tried to enter Game Mode I would get a windows popup telling me in order for changes to take effect I would have to restart windows...I clicked "Yes" to reboot and nothing happened.. during shutdown windows shuts down runing services one by one and it looked like Since Audio Console could not load Game Mode properly Windows was hanging on the sound driver to finish its action before shutting down (which it did about 10 mins later)
Anyway I did a search on Creative forums and another guy also using xfi mode changer had the exact same problem. he too solved it with a reinstall of the xfi drivers!.
Now I know mode changer works well but with some games it seems to try and change mode too late or too early hence corrupting the xfi driver. Perhaps this is why Creative did not put an auto mode switcher into the audio console? It makes sense now.
I have now stopped using mode changer and have bound creative audio console to a programmable key on my logitech keyboard for quick access when modes need changing.
Guess manual is the safest way from here on
/my two pence
