BlasterX Accoustic Engine Pro endless installation

MrUnknownX

MrUnknownX

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Hello,

I got a Sound Blaster X G5 which works fine.
But I want to install the BlasterX Accoustic Engine but I simply can't.

I downloaded it here:
https://support.creative.com/Downloads/welcome.aspx

But when I install it it get stuck in this screen.
It is german, and there stands installation of extras. It installed the drivers but always ends here.

I started it 3 times but always on this screen it loads forever.

Anyone knows a solution?

Played with the G5 without installing drivers and it worked fine. But I want the engine.
Do I have to change something in the windows device manager or smth else?
 
Did you try downloading software installer again?
It wouldn't be entirely impossible for file to have become corrupted during download.
 
I downloaded every file which you can download there.
I killed the process with the task manager and it said it would be successfully installed??

I could open it and check firmware and software for updates but it said it would be up to date.

The only problem now. I have no soud


EDIT:

When I restarted I still had no sound. But when I replugged the G5 then the sound was there.

I dont know why it is so mysterious
 
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If replugging helped who knows if that particular USB port is dodgy.
Making sure motherboard drivers are newest would be one thing to check.
Wintoys10 might even be force installing bad drivers.
 
Let's hope next Windows update won't break things again...

For gaming you should set output to Headphone 7.1 Surround in Advanced Settings.
Then Surround setting is the one controlling binaural sound simulation/HRTF in Acoustic Engine.

At that point Playback in sound settings of Windows should be automatically configured for 7.1 speakers, which is needed for game (or movie player) to output surround sound as source data.
So better to double check that setting manually.
Even if game happens to have own output channel settings, they default to speaker configuration told by Windows.


Other Acoustic Engine settings are mostly fashion crud for bad heaphones etc.
Crystalizer is fancy name for bass and treble boosting equalizer.
Bass is "what it says on the tin".
Smart Volume is dynamic range compression, meaning it lowers volume differences between loud and quiet moments, by basically adjusting volume depending on signal level.
Dialogue Plus is meant for making dialogue more clear, likely by boosting center channel signal.

And Scout mode is another fancy equalizer, which also force disables binaural sound simulation, demolishing immersion with headphones.
Though that immersion depends greatly on headphones.
Binaural sound is simply lot more demanding for headphone sound quality than any stereo music:
Same signal which with good accurate enough (usually open) headphones gives also actual feel of distances besides directionality, collapses easily to "head in bucket under water" level with usual closed design gaming trinkets.
 
Thanks mate!

Do you mean I should enable 7.1 in this setting here?
Raumklang is german and means surround sound.

If it helps I use AKG K702
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So should I activate Windows Sonic? Otherwise I can not activate the 7.1 there

EDIT: Got it
 
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