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Recommend me a card.

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I'm sick, sick, sick of the horrid Creative drivers for my X-Fi XtremeGamer randomly uninstalling themselves for no reason every other day. I've had this problem under XP and Vista, and having to reinstall drivers/reboot all the darn time to get sound to work is unacceptable. Could someone recommend a non-Creative card? I looked at Auzentech but the Prelude uses the X-fi chipset and Creative drivers, so that's not an option (unless I see some really glowing recommendations and assurances that it doesn't suffer from Creative's involvement), and their other cards are all out of stock everywhere I looked.

Please, help me replace this thing so I can take it out and go all Office Space on it. :mad:
 
Well, I have ordered one. (Auzentech Prelude 7.1)

There is a lot of people that do have one and they say it works perfectly in XP and Vista and they just love it.
 
Keep in mind that not only is your current card severely gimped compared to the output quality/options on the Prelude, but also the fact that they both have two totally different DACs and the Prelude also has an OPAMP socket.

What you're listening to now is barely comparable to the sound of the Auzentech part.
 
kelim said:
Keep in mind that not only is your current card severely gimped compared to the output quality/options on the Prelude, but also the fact that they both have two totally different DACs and the Prelude also has an OPAMP socket.

What you're listening to now is barely comparable to the sound of the Auzentech part.
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which opamp does it come with? i never knew that about the prelude- thats awesome
 
I've never seen anyone else saying X-Fi drivers uninstall themselves on Vista or XP, me included, so you must have some other underlying issue that is causing it.
 
Okay, so I had just had the issue happen when I wrote the inital post, and I was in a pretty ticked off state of mind. I'm certainly willing to consider the Prelude if people recommend it; I trust that HardForum people tend to know what they're talking about or else I wouldn't be asking here. :)

As for any underlying issue, I have no idea, except to say that it's never cut out in the middle of doing something - it seems to happen in between closing one application that uses sound, and opening another. There's no specific application that this is tied to - it could be WoW or some other game, VLC, Winamp, doesn't matter. But the Sound applet in CP reports there's no audio device installed, the card no longer shows up in Device Manager, and I have to reinstall the drivers and reboot.
 
For the same money or less you can do better than the Prelude by buying an EMU0404 USB and hooking it digitally to your X-Fi. That's what I do. Only problem would be if you use 5.1 speakers as the EMU is for high quality 2 channel audio and not surround sound.

I think you must have something defective in your hardware somewhere that is causing the issue. Might be the soundcard or it could be your motherboard, maybe even your PSU not giving enough power to the PCI slot, doubtful though.
 
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