Thoughout this thread, wayyyyy more folks said they had no problems with the drivers just shows that that guy at Guru3D is FOS LOL! Most folks replying are nF4 users, not Intel as many of them never had any problems to start with.
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Do your X-Fi Drivers work?
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Thoughout this thread, wayyyyy more folks said they had no problems with the drivers just shows that that guy at Guru3D is FOS LOL! Most folks replying are nF4 users, not Intel as many of them never had any problems to start with.
Have any of you tried the youppax suite for the X-Fi in Vista? Apparently this Chinese grad student and others have written modded drivers for Vista and gotten the Apps and all to work in Vista. I downloaded the suite (660mb, basically uses the Creative install interface), and now I have a working console launcher, volume panel, etc. in Vista Ultimate. Also, I don't have to keep toggling the digital option whenever I reboot. Anyway, I don't remember the URL....but just google "Youppax".
Nope. In fact, I found the link to those drivers on the Creative forums. So far people who have used those drivers are quite happy. Some have even used those drivers instead of the official Creative ones. I'm using the official March 8 drivers though. I just installed the apps so I could have my EQ back.
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Yup! I've heard way more good than bad about them. After I finish repairing a couple of PCs, I'll install m and give them a shot. Creative should try to hire guys and girls like this
It got to 421MB and timed out
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Donnie,
try the 3 links from the German (.de) mirror.
I got them @ 1.5mbps
the link on the Creative forum makes you think these drivers can walk on the Red Sea.
try the 3 links from the German (.de) mirror.
I got them @ 1.5mbps
the link on the Creative forum makes you think these drivers can walk on the Red Sea.
Donnie,
try the 3 links from the German (.de) mirror.
I got them @ 1.5mbps
the link on the Creative forum makes you think these drivers can walk on the Red Sea.
Oh hell, now you tell me hehehe! I give it a shot after restarting from shut off point I'm still at only 424MB
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There's a bunch more links from the Creative forum.
The guy in page 4, who uploaded the .ISO on his FTP is pretty quick.
Good luck!
http://forums.creative.com/creative...message.id=9273&view=by_date_ascending&page=4
The guy in page 4, who uploaded the .ISO on his FTP is pretty quick.
Good luck!
http://forums.creative.com/creative...message.id=9273&view=by_date_ascending&page=4
I got the file the other day but was just too busy working on other folks' computers. Sorry guys, I miss the Bloatware media player
This was unexpected. I got too use to using multiple players.I think I left too much junk files on the system and will do another uninstall of all Creative files. Reinstall from there. I really like the YouP-PAX THX Console. I didn't like the Newer Media Player 5 though.
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Thanks! Ive gotten great results with "CrapCleaner" and one of the many RegCleaner apps I already use but didn't that time. Both can be heavy handed if not used correctly.
For WinXP 32 these drivers work great! In fact, I find little reason to leave WinXP 32 besides moving from Home to Pro for Domain support since I have four computers running in my Home. Two more setting there un-used. I'm afraid that I'm behind the curve for 64bit.
For WinXP 32 these drivers work great! In fact, I find little reason to leave WinXP 32 besides moving from Home to Pro for Domain support since I have four computers running in my Home. Two more setting there un-used. I'm afraid that I'm behind the curve for 64bit.
I had that board and I had problems with the X-Fi and Audigy2 ZS with it. I went back to the my original A8N SLI since both worked perfrectly on it. I also had problems with my ATI X1800XT on it.
NF4-SLi + X-Fi XtremeMusic = Flawless in bit-matched analog/digital playback, or standard (non bit-matched) playback. Win XP SP2 and Win MCE2005.
I have to unselect and reselect the "enable digital output" after any restart... but thats like once a week tops.
I have to unselect and reselect the "enable digital output" after any restart... but thats like once a week tops.
Yup, known glitch.
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Mine work in XP SP2 just fine. Worked in Vista RTM too; but I've removed that from my system until driver support from graphics card companies is there; and game performance is up.
Vista is a work in progress and maybe Microsoft should give folks a rebate for Beta testing
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Vista is a work in progress and maybe Microsoft should give folks a rebate for Beta testing
Vista is finished, it's the hardware manufacturer's fault that they don't have drivers. That's the whole point of the RC and Beta's of Vista... so the manufacturer's can get working drivers by the time RTM comes around.
Service Pack 1 might ship in a couple of months Maybe and any of Microsoft's OS's are never finished. Either way, WinXP does everything I need it to and I, yes just me, see no reason to frack with Vista.
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Well I don't mean it's finished, there's always little bugs and security patches; but Vista is a shipped retail product and the only thing holding it back is drivers. It's a great snappy OS which brings a lot of what I love about OS X to Windows; and if it had better driver support and performance in games (which is the only reason I still have a PC); I'd be using it now.
No biggie. I'm not Anti-MS and can't wait to hear more success stories, happy users and most of all, price cuts on this OS so I can upgrade to it. I can wait to move to it because I fell a little disappointment MS lately. I mean artificially limiting Halo 2, DirectX 10 and other cross-platform stuff to Vista, and of course the DRM crap-o-la.
I'd love to use OSX on a PC and have also looked at moving away from MS because of Vista and the associated crap above.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38885
To make my point clearer and not off topic since Vista has change the discrete computer sound card's domain anyway.
And if Vista isn't much better by then, I think I'll switch to MACs. Then use Linux on my other computers.
To make my point clearer and not off topic since Vista has change the discrete computer sound card's domain anyway.
And if Vista isn't much better by then, I think I'll switch to MACs. Then use Linux on my other computers.
One of the best components of OS X is undoubtedly Core Audio. Rather than having an entangled mess of APIs and quasi-APIs (DirectSound, MME, ASIO, OpenAL), there is one unified low-level audio API that allows every Mac compatible audio interface to function fully with any Mac application (although OpenAL is of course an option, which is supported out-of-the-box on most Macs, but fails to be supported by most Mac compatible interfaces). In addition to that, there's extensive device sharing capabilities, and the additional simplicity of global plug-in-like audio units. And, yeah, there's still a HAL in Core Audio.
And, although it's taboo to speak of it, it is possible to run OS X on a PC with varying degrees of success, but I can't go into details here.
I think it's because OpenAL is too focused as a gaming API atm. In my opinion OpenAL contains some really feeble limitations (such as only being able to use 8 bit or 16 bit audio streams) that really prevent it from being a successful "general audio" API. In it's current state it just doesn't simply stack up to DirectSound (or whatever) for simple things like music playback. I don't have much faith in Creative to really change the direction of OpenAL either.
Oh well that's for another thread.Yes but I'm still very much a Noob there.
I think it's because OpenAL is too focused as a gaming API atm. In my opinion OpenAL contains some really feeble limitations (such as only being able to use 8 bit or 16 bit audio streams) that really prevent it from being a successful "general audio" API. In it's current state it just doesn't simply stack up to DirectSound (or whatever) for simple things like music playback. I don't have much faith in Creative to really change the direction of OpenAL either.
Unfortunately I agree. I don't think the others will be there to work with Creative any longer. But that was the main reason I bitched about Vista from the start. Yes IMHO, it will not be that hard for MS Windows in any forum to kill off OpenAL since support is only lukewarm anyway. Then Macs ends up Kicking MS's ass for game sound support. 16Bit ain't bad since that's still CDA quality. Creative/NVidia and etc.... can't bring market wide support alone. Like Direct Sound, it has to have the whole market support it.
Why are these better? I didn't get much from the thread, but I didn't click any links or download the drivers.
The Software is tweaked/different versions of Creative's Apps, not really limited drivers. The cleaner faster running apps seem to work well.
Like has been said in the past about the Creative cards. Most of the time it is not the drivers. I had an issue when I first got my X-Fi. I found that it was the IRQs causing conflicts. Most people don't look at that I think, and are quick to blame Creative.....
Just plain pure unadulterated hated for Creative runs deep. Merely defending Creative Labs on some sites moves you to Troll status. This gets you banned by Mods at places like Guru3D LOL! I've had issues with everything from every company at one time or another. If I held grudges against them, I'd not have a computer. The only company I can't complain about crappy parts or etc.., Teac floppy and LiteON Opticals or maybe Antec.
Point Blank, If I had problems with my X-FI, I'd complain about it. I got re-badged 667 as 800 GSkill RAM. I got a $146 motherboard that should have sold for $99 IMHO, the Lian Li case? Hell I used better $39 dollar models. Yet my Power Supply, Processor and all of the drives have been great.
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