Creative X-FI + Vista64 = Static

[gizbug]

The sound is either static or poping
Tried the latest driver, and the previous beta. Hasn't fixed the issue.
Anyone have any solutions? Maybe it's time to use my onboard realtek card...it cant be all that bad?!?

 

[Mem]

Been quite a few people with same problem if you read the threads over at Creative forums,not much you can do apart from try a different PCI slot or go back to onboard sound.


Audigy cards seem to be fine,so if you got an old one lying around could try that.

 

[potato28]

Try a different slot, and if you still have the problem and want the X-FI buy some ERS paper from Texas Instruments and shield it.

 

[gizbug]

Ill try that. Its in the bottom pci slot currently

 

[AllGamer]

it's typical of all sound cards when sharing IRQ / DMA resources when sharing the same PCI slots

that's why people that says ACPI etc etc is the solution, is not quite true, behind the scene the old time IRQ / DMA conflicts are still there

else there wouldn't be a need to change the PCI slot to another one that does not use the same IRQ / DMA resources.

anyways, yes the best way to avoid the interference and noise problem is to chance the PCI slot,

the best thing to do, is to read your Mobo manual guide which usually tells you which PCI slots share which resources with which other slots.

this will make it easier for you to prevent conflicts

i always read the PCI slots mapping before i install another expansion card, to prevent such problems.

and the new drivers are official drivers, not beta drivers

make sure to download the separate EAX drivers, which is not part of the regular driver download.

 

[Peter]

Let's not spin the "shared IRQ" myth yet again, shall we? The reason why moving the card into another slot magically helps is, it gets you a clean driver reinstallation. That's all, no more no less. And it works only once per slot, because Windows remembers.

Specifically to this problem here: The X-Fi cards crackle and pop because they're not getting as much BANDWIDTH as their designers would have liked them to have. This isn't even something to do with IRQs. And no, "DMA resources" don't even exist on PCI. DMA on PCI is exclusively bus master DMA, which means there are no resources of a central DMA controller.

So, AllGamer, please face the facts and finally drop out of ISA mode. Thanks.

(And if this all sounds familiar, that's because you've been told the same thing in at least two other forums )

Now, what to do here? Well, nothing really. The X-Fi cards need /perfect/ PCI bus latency and throughput, something which just doesn't exist in a realistic system. So short of removing other bandwidth hogs like USB webcams or PCI storage controllers, things won't improve.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

did u see the thread here with the new drivers? did u give that a try?