Creative Drivers + Vista

vickister · 6 Jul 2007 at 00:04

Is any one having problems at the moment with the latest creative drivers for Vista 64 bit. pc seems to play sound and then suddenly stop and then it comes back for a while and then goes again.

I didnt really have any problems with windows xp

mmj_uk · 6 Jul 2007 at 00:08

I noticed the creative drivers stopped the vista control panel and system properties from loading on my Vista 32.

I removed my X-Fi about 2wks ago not had a problem since, sound isn't any worse either since all that EAX ****** was disabled from Vista anyway.

helmutcheese · 6 Jul 2007 at 00:08

Thats because MS changes the Soundstack in Vista, and gave Creative a headache esp in games with EAX, thats why they wrote this:

http://www.soundblaster.com/alchemy/

Dyson · 6 Jul 2007 at 18:58

vickister said:
Is any one having problems at the moment with the latest creative drivers for Vista 64 bit. pc seems to play sound and then suddenly stop and then it comes back for a while and then goes again.

I didnt really have any problems with windows xp

I went back to the previous ones, 30th May ones didn't like Teamspeak

All ok now, all sounds good too. Alchemy is only any good on older titles from what i've read at creative. See the games list here:

http://www.soundblaster.com/alchemy/

My BF2 is perfect!

Nick1881 · 7 Jul 2007 at 09:44

Still no support for Rainbow Six.

My Xfi drivers seem to like to un-install them selves sometimes when I reboot, I went back to onboard sound yesterday.

Rob43 · 7 Jul 2007 at 11:18

mr_x_plosion said:
My Xfi drivers seem to like to un-install them selves sometimes when I reboot, I went back to onboard sound yesterday.

My X-Fi drivers are doing the same thing,its starting to do my head in :mad:

kkthxbye · 7 Jul 2007 at 14:31

XFi drivers is the only thing stopping me from installing my Vista.

Baka^Ni · 7 Jul 2007 at 19:20

Dyson=Alchemy is only any good on older titles from what i've read at creative. See the games list here: [url said:
http://www.soundblaster.com/alchemy/[/URL]

My BF2 is perfect!

Alchemy works with any game that uses DirectSound. Unless the game uses OpenAL then you will NOT have any hardware acceleration in game without it.

Case and point, benched CoH 1.70 last night:

Min:5.2 Avg: 44 Max:60.9

When Alchemy is installed.
Min:25.5 Avg: 46: Max:60.9
(this is on a c2d @ 3.5ghz)
Trying to use 5.1 44khz + 128 voices places a great strain on the vista software mixer, hense the drop.

I recommend you try ALchemy with all the games you're having performance troubles/want to use EAX with.

Otherwise, I've found the X-Fi to work pretty well once you work around the bugs.

Nick1881 · 8 Jul 2007 at 11:13

What about the drivers un-installing themselves though? Seems im not the only one.

Just playing music now and I can notice the difference

If this problem was fixed i'd put the Xfi straight back in.