Issues? What issues?

aragorncy · 22 Oct 2011 at 21:43

I just bought an Asus Maximus Extreme IV P67 mobo with GTX580 Gainward graphic card and Creative XFI Titanium HD sound card and 8GB Ram.

I installed Windows 7 64bit and nothing seemed to work. I could not make the sound card work, i could not install the latest Nvidia Drivers (got blue screens) and all sorts of problems.

I installed Windows 7 again 32bit this time and everything works fine. Got my sound back, installed latest graphic drivers etc.

The only problem is that i can not use more than 3GB of ram. At least my pc is working now. And lets hope that better drivers for 64bit hardware come out soon.

Levirginien · 23 Oct 2011 at 01:43

Most folks including myself are now on 64bit and it works just fine. can you give more detail about your system? I am suspecting your sound card as the culprit for the glitches you are experiencing...

d_brennen · 23 Oct 2011 at 01:47

Creative, that name fills me with dread from times gone by

64bit Windows 7 is spot on. If not the sound card maybe your installation media is kaput

stulid · 23 Oct 2011 at 01:50

Win7 64bit here, no issues at all.

including the creative x-fi xtrememusic I recently sold.

Admetos · 23 Oct 2011 at 02:52

I've been running 64 bit Windows since 2006.

These days unless your running old hardware there's no reason not to run 64 bit.

That said 3 year old Creative Music Extream sound card running in Win 7 64 would not work, so moved to Asus sound card.

Clav · 23 Oct 2011 at 07:02

Sell your x-fi and get a xonar.

Stone22uk · 23 Oct 2011 at 08:06

I have a X-Fi Titanium HD Sound Card with windows 7 64 bit and iv had zero problems...

aragorncy · 23 Oct 2011 at 10:39

When i installed Win7 64bit without inserting the Creative card, i tried to install the latest Nvidia drivers and got blue screens. The only driver i had no problems was the 175,33 version. When i installed Win7 32bit i could install the 280,26
When i had Win7 64 bit i had issues with the Creative card. Was not working, could hear strange sounds all the time, speakers not found. With Win7 32 bit everything worked fine.
I have 2 x GTX580 Gainward cards. I tried all the above with just one graphic card.
What i am going to do and please say if its going to be ok, is that, i will installed both graphic cards in SLI (no room fom sound card if i do this) so i will get the Creative 5.1 Usb card and i will install Win7 64bit. Hope this will work with no issues.