I've noticed something odd in my new X-Fi Titanium PCI-E sound card.
When I watch either hulu or youtube videos in full screen, I get lots of crackling and popping from my X-Fi sound card. I guess this may be the case with all flash based playback.
I tried to contact Creative about this over a week ago, but have had no reply from them.
However, this seems to be limited to full screen play back, or at least it's exponentially greater in the playback of full screen (hence my noticing it then). When not full screen, the distortion is not obvious.
Oddly, I don't seem to have this issue when doing the Netflix Silverlight based movie player in fullscreen.
If it helps, I'm getting this problem running Windows XP MCE 2005 with full patches, Athlon 64 3500+, MSI K8NGM2 (using 128 MB of RAM with the onboard 6150 geforce), 1024 MB Crucial Ballistix DDR 400 (minus the 128 going to onboard), a creative X-Fi Titanium PCI-E x 1, an installed but unused Happauge PCI dual TV tuner, a Maxtor Maxline III 300 GB SATA HD, a Samsung SH233Q DVD-RW. If I recall correctly, I'm using the nforce 4 SATA drivers. My X-Fi is connected to my 5.1 Klipsch Promedia 5.1 speakers (rev. 3) via the three miniport jacks.
My sound card isn't connected to anything but the speakers, the optical out of my PS2 (tried unplugging that, didn't make a difference), and it's NOT connected to the front panel audio of the case via pins on the card
I've tried switching X-Fi listening "modes", and toggling the various features (CMSS 3d, dolby digital live, etc) on and off to see if it helped, but it didn't.
The pops and crackling start up every time I switch the flash based movies to full screen. I guess the only other option I have is to try downloading a flash player and watching from HD to eliminate another variable.
The mobo onboard audio is disabled in BIOS.
Has anyone encountered this issue and/or found a fix for it? I'm going to do some google searching on my own, but would be curious to hear if others have experienced similar.
At this point, I'm leaning towards pointing the finger at some issue with the way the X-Fi is decoding flash audio streams. So, I guess that would be Creative's fault(?)
*update* Not finding much so far, other than other people complaining. There is a very apparent issue with Flash and the X-Fi card in Linux (as well as a fix for that OS), which further leads me to believe there is something significantly wrong with the Creative driver/flash decode.
I also know from previous experience that my happauge card wouldn't play nice with a sound blaster Audigy. I couldn't even get my computer to boot when I had both installed in the MSI Neo4 Platinum SLI due to unresolvable IRQ conflicts (well, that was my conclusion).
When I watch either hulu or youtube videos in full screen, I get lots of crackling and popping from my X-Fi sound card. I guess this may be the case with all flash based playback.
I tried to contact Creative about this over a week ago, but have had no reply from them.
However, this seems to be limited to full screen play back, or at least it's exponentially greater in the playback of full screen (hence my noticing it then). When not full screen, the distortion is not obvious.
Oddly, I don't seem to have this issue when doing the Netflix Silverlight based movie player in fullscreen.
If it helps, I'm getting this problem running Windows XP MCE 2005 with full patches, Athlon 64 3500+, MSI K8NGM2 (using 128 MB of RAM with the onboard 6150 geforce), 1024 MB Crucial Ballistix DDR 400 (minus the 128 going to onboard), a creative X-Fi Titanium PCI-E x 1, an installed but unused Happauge PCI dual TV tuner, a Maxtor Maxline III 300 GB SATA HD, a Samsung SH233Q DVD-RW. If I recall correctly, I'm using the nforce 4 SATA drivers. My X-Fi is connected to my 5.1 Klipsch Promedia 5.1 speakers (rev. 3) via the three miniport jacks.
My sound card isn't connected to anything but the speakers, the optical out of my PS2 (tried unplugging that, didn't make a difference), and it's NOT connected to the front panel audio of the case via pins on the card
I've tried switching X-Fi listening "modes", and toggling the various features (CMSS 3d, dolby digital live, etc) on and off to see if it helped, but it didn't.
The pops and crackling start up every time I switch the flash based movies to full screen. I guess the only other option I have is to try downloading a flash player and watching from HD to eliminate another variable.
The mobo onboard audio is disabled in BIOS.
Has anyone encountered this issue and/or found a fix for it? I'm going to do some google searching on my own, but would be curious to hear if others have experienced similar.
At this point, I'm leaning towards pointing the finger at some issue with the way the X-Fi is decoding flash audio streams. So, I guess that would be Creative's fault(?)
*update* Not finding much so far, other than other people complaining. There is a very apparent issue with Flash and the X-Fi card in Linux (as well as a fix for that OS), which further leads me to believe there is something significantly wrong with the Creative driver/flash decode.
I also know from previous experience that my happauge card wouldn't play nice with a sound blaster Audigy. I couldn't even get my computer to boot when I had both installed in the MSI Neo4 Platinum SLI due to unresolvable IRQ conflicts (well, that was my conclusion).
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