X-fi

valerian · 22 Mar 2006 at 15:57

hi all
i have just bought a X-fi fatality
not yet installed it
i see there is a volume control on the front panel
can i use this to control the speaker volume, and disconnect the creative speaker volume control

cheers

meths · 22 Mar 2006 at 17:35

No that's the volume for headphones plugged into the socket next to it...I think.

daftVader · 22 Mar 2006 at 21:55

The front panel has an IR sensor so you can use the remote control to change the master volume. I'm not sure which bit of the software you need installed to be able to use it... Seems like much of it is just bloatware :rolleyes:

this_is_gav · 23 Mar 2006 at 11:02

daftVader said:
I'm not sure which bit of the software you need installed to be able to use it... Seems like much of it is just bloatware

Entertainment Centre with the Audigy 4, and no doubt the same with the X-FI... problem with the Audigy 4 version was when you patched up the drivers, it hung on shut-down for ages (I'm talking multiple minutes here), which went away when you uninstalled EC. Don't think it was ever fixed.

Fireblade2K4 · 25 Mar 2006 at 20:25

daftVader said:
Seems like much of it is just bloatware

Yup it is, I only have the minimum installed, the rest is just really OTT.

Stu

N3M · 26 Mar 2006 at 05:50

Meths said:
No that's the volume for headphones plugged into the socket next to it...I think.

Spot on... use the remote dude... tis the only way

Mang0 Tree · 26 Mar 2006 at 18:36

I'm using the onboard soundcard at the moment, If I install the X-fi, do I need to uninstall the driver for the onboard soundcard first?

Psypher5 · 26 Mar 2006 at 18:40

Mark A · 26 Mar 2006 at 18:57

thats a short awnser

, i thought it causes conflicts if there are 2 drivers installed?. Im going to order an X-FI today

.

Mark

Psypher5 · 26 Mar 2006 at 19:10

well, I've not had any problems installing an audigy next to an onboard..

used the two together for agges, should be no different with an xfi

Fireblade2K4 · 26 Mar 2006 at 19:25

If you have no need for 2 sound cards which I doubt you would do it is best to disable the onboard sound in the bios as this will use system resources if it is left active, remove the drivers also, this ensures no conflicts between the sound devices in games etc.

Stu

harris1986 · 27 Mar 2006 at 06:53

^ Agreed, disable onboard sound in bios first, I did have 1 problem when i first came to install my Xfi-Fatal1ty that upon placing the cd in the system all would go well but the installer setup froze so i CTRL - ALT - DELETE and after that point i was unable to re-install or uninstall any programme even after numerous reboots. This lead to me having to completely re-formatt

so my advice would be, uninstall the current onboard audio driver as when i re-formatted i didn't install it and all has worked fine ever since!

* btw this is one truely awesome soundcard, i went from onboard to this and was blown away, if you have FEAR and you wear headphones to game this will leave you in a cold sweat

Mark A · 27 Mar 2006 at 12:08

* btw this is one truely awesome soundcard, i went from onboard to this and was blown away, if you have FEAR and you wear headphones to game this will leave you in a cold sweat

nice one, i ordered the Extreme music today from OCUK so i cant wait to replay some of my games with EAX enabled.

Mark