Help with Creative's drivers for Win7-64! :(

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Got an X-Fi Titanium Fatality thingimy (not even sure how you spell it, the one with the control panel that goes in a drive bay), and, although it worked fine under XP, since installing Windows 7-64 its drivers have been terribly flakey. For one thing, it keeps resetting itself to Game Mode randomly. For another, it forgets whatever settings I put in it. And just to add insult to injury, if I try to switch modes while any audio is actually playing it freezes my entire system!

I've got my latest motherboard drivers, and the latest Creative drivers. Even tried updating to Creative's beta drivers in the hope it would solve things, but no dice.

Anyone else have this problem, and is there a solution?

 

[Purgatory]

Use these Beta drivers on Windows 7 64bit (I find them more stable and windows does not keep losing audio for un-known reasons or the creative console behaving strange as you are finding)

Release date : 12 Sep 11

File Name : XFTI_PCDRVBETA_US_2_17_0008B.exe

This download is a beta driver providing Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista® and Windows XP support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium series of audio devices. For more details, read the rest of the web release note.

Take note of the following:

THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED BETA DRIVER. There is no technical support for this driver.
We recommend that only experienced users install this driver. Do not install this driver on a system used to perform critical tasks.
Users who are looking for stable drivers should wait for the final release. When this happens, user should install the latest Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium series driver available.

This download supports the following audio devices only:

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty® Champion Series
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty® Professional Series
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

Fixes:

Minimized the issue of no audio playback on certain system configurations.

Known Issues:

Audio stutters during the opening video for certain game titles while Dolby Digital® Live is enabled. This issue occurs on certain hardware and OS configurations only. More details and a workaround are available here.

Requirements:

Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit with Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista 32-bit with SP1, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005 or Windows XP MCE 2004
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium series audio devices listed above

Notes:

To install this driver
Download the file onto your local hard disk.
Double-click the downloaded file.
Follow the instructions on the screen.


Download them from here mate.

http://support.creative.com/downloads/download.aspx?nDownloadId=12098



Make sure to uninstall all your creative cards drivers and any software that came with it and then install these and restart the system and you will see it ask you if you want to update the rest of the cards componets and install the rest of the applications.

If it does not show that look for the "Creative Software AutoUpdate" in the creative start menu folder and run that and install all the stuff you use.

Also the card will behave a lot better now you will find and more like how it behaved on XP. It took me a while to get the card working as it should too untill creative pointed me to this driver that is hidden away on their driver pages for the cards. Works great now and not had a single problem with it, they also told me they are working on a new driver for these cards that may come begining of next year hopefully.



Also which slot on your PC do you have the card installed into ? If you can take a pic will be good and add the motherboard and setup you have, that way I may spot a known issue with your setup and can tell you how to sort it out.