Important X-Fi Driver Update for Vista 64 users with 4GB+ RAM

[chizow]

Important X-Fi Driver Update for those with 4GB+ and Vista 64

Fixes in this driver:

• Resolves an issue for Windows Vista 64-bit systems with 4 GB RAM
• Resolves loud speaker noise when restarting your computer
• Resolves an issue that causes OpenAL games not to respond

This driver may or may not solve the cracking/hissing problems some are seeing with NV chipsets, however, for me it solved the greater problem of not being able to use the X-Fi at all without BSODs, crashes, memory/resource allocation problems etc in Vista 64. Re-installed the X-Fi and haven't crashed yet, although sounds in games still seem a bit off. May need to update the OpenAL wrapper for those games as I previously used onboard Azalia HD.

 

[panzer948]

thanks for the tip. But will this work for my older Audigy 2 ZS Platinum? Getting ready to do a rebuild and want to include Vista 64 bit OS. But want to keep my Audigy 2 but worried it may not work in vista at all or at least the 64 bit version.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: panzer948
thanks for the tip. But will this work for my older Audigy 2 ZS Platinum? Getting ready to do a rebuild and want to include Vista 64 bit OS. But want to keep my Audigy 2 but worried it may not work in vista at all or at least the 64 bit version.

I'm using Vista x64 with my Audigy 4 sound card which works fine,there's Vista x64 drivers for Audigy2 series as well.

Btw the 4GB issue was only with X-FI cards.