HP OEM creative X-FI card ?

WOW
its installed !
i received it this morning at about 8 or 9...
and i have been on for the whole day trying to get it to work exploring every forum in the land with no successes...
eventually after 15 system restores and MANY driver uninstalls / installs...
i put the creative drivers on form the website ( about the 6th time ) and by about 8 O’clock at night i realized there’s a setting under headphone detection
in the creative audio console that says "automatically mute speakers"
i clicked it and heard a pop from my speakers and the feedback i could hear before disappeared... i neaarly jumped out my seat because i knew it meant something was working... opened a music file and i swear i could almost cry !!! it really was that simple !
the ticky box seems to bare no relevance to the windows mute settings either !

but yea its working and YEA its awesome ! never thought id hear the difference... now all i got ot wait for is my medusas !!!

again guys... THANKS for all the help !!! net beers on me !

( btw i rang the guy up and he said i needed to plug a floppy power cable into it... i thought that was just the elite pro that needed it ?
will it do any harm being in there ?
Rick
 
R B CUSTOMS said:
WOW
its installed !
i received it this morning at about 8 or 9...
and i have been on for the whole day trying to get it to work exploring every forum in the land with no successes...
eventually after 15 system restores and MANY driver uninstalls / installs...
i put the creative drivers on form the website ( about the 6th time ) and by about 8 O’clock at night i realized there’s a setting under headphone detection
in the creative audio console that says "automatically mute speakers"
i clicked it and heard a pop from my speakers and the feedback i could hear before disappeared... i neaarly jumped out my seat because i knew it meant something was working... opened a music file and i swear i could almost cry !!! it really was that simple !
the ticky box seems to bare no relevance to the windows mute settings either !
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ouch

Ive just purchased the x-fi retail cd off a famous auction site as many controls are missing from just using the driver control panel.

Medusa's work great with this card, took me some time to get it right but used a 5.1 movie to get them sorted
 
Can't see the point in getting X-Fi only to use with Medusas. Not that I'm knocking the Medusas - they do have their uses in certain situations (ie where you want 3d sound but it's late at night and you can't use your speakers), but they're not high quality. Any sound quality improvement you get through X-Fi you won't hear through Medusas.

Btw make sure you select 5.1 output when using Medusas, not headphones - they work the same as 5.1 speakers. Also if you have to get Medusas make sure it's the non-usb ones. To be honest though you'd be better off with quality stereo headphones from say Sennheiser and letting the X-Fi do it's pseudo 3d sound trick - at least you'd get hi-fi sound.
 
colin... someone offered me one too. cheeky monkey ! lol

fish... when i bought my 5.1's i thouight id use them until i got my usb headsert... and theyrve just been collecting dust since lol... headasets ive found are sooo much better for online ghaming where hearing people sneaking round th map is critical lol. and yea late at night gaming too !

also people arnt hearing my game when im on skype and teamspeak etc... its really a gaming thing :) and ofcourse the built in mic :)

the medusas solve all of my problems really :)
although during the day i always use my speakers now lol
lol

Rick
 
R B CUSTOMS said:
colin... someone offered me one too. cheeky monkey ! lol

fish... when i bought my 5.1's i thouight id use them until i got my usb headsert... and theyrve just been collecting dust since lol... headasets ive found are sooo much better for online ghaming where hearing people sneaking round th map is critical lol. and yea late at night gaming too !

also people arnt hearing my game when im on skype and teamspeak etc... its really a gaming thing :) and ofcourse the built in mic :)

the medusas solve all of my problems really :)
although during the day i always use my speakers now lol
lol

Rick
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annoying bug ive got

how do you select the multi-jack as microphone?
 
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