I tried your idea, left on-board sound disabled, and it was successful graphically in BF2. It did kick me out to the menu once I entered a map for a few seconds, which sucks. However, this problem existed before I took out the X-Fi. I did read somewhere on Creative's knowledge base that if a...
I read about these dual core problems, yet no one has mentioned Intel Pentium D chips. I just built a machine that has a 3.0 GHz dual core Pentium, X-FI sound and 7800 GTX with 4 gigs of RAM and have the same problem. No fix has worked for me. HL2, BF2, Counter-strike are the ones causing me...