X-fi & EAX in tombraider Anivers

Has anyone found a way to enable EAX in the new game TRA using an X-fi? I mean in an?XPSP2, since MS killed EAX in Vista as I understand it and you need to use the OpenAL file for vistaThx in advance

er I beg to differ...
Why does the game work in surround mode on my crappy onboard audio and on my very old li've 5.
this 'no-surround' only seems to effect X-fi cards, see this thread...
http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=6979&highlight=x-fi
bikerMessage Edited by bikerdude on 06-26-200703:04 PM

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Can not activate EAX and SVM Support in Media Source Organizer with Audigy2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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TheDarkSide,
Actually what is happening is that MediaSource does not support the Audigy card. The EAX and SVM buttons require the EAX console and capabilities of the Audigy 2 or cards that were designed for MediaSource. The way that EAX was handled and implemented was changed between the Audigy and Audigy 2 and this is why MediaSource doesn't support the EAX capabilities of the Audigy directly. You can still modify the EAX settings from within EAX console for the Audigy but it isn't integrated into MediaSource like it is with Playcenter.
Jeremy

Pops and crackles when using EAX in F.E.A.R.

Here is my system:
Windows 7 64-bit
intel i7 930
ASUS P6T:SE Mobo
2x Nvidia GTX 470 SLI
12GB DDR2 RAM
1TB 7200 RPM HDD
Creative X-Fi Titanium and the latest non-beta drivers
-I also have the Windows PID patch and the SLI patch
I recently discovered Alchemy and how it would enable EAX effects (though I'm still not exactly sure if EAX is responsible for the 3D positioning or if it's just some fancy processing to make sound effects sound cooler).
That said, I noticed that after enabling Alchemy and EAX effects, F.E.A.R. started to make popping and crackling noises. But, these noises wouldn't start immediately. It would take a couple minutes before I started hearing them, and it would get progressively worse and worse. Eventually, the game itself would start stuttering and it became impossible to play because of the choppiness.
I have never really experienced this with another game, and only noticed this behavior after enabling EAX effects. I have played F.E.A.R. before with no problems, granted, this was without EAX effects enabled.
Furthermore, I have no idea what needs to be enabled. In the F.E.A.R. sound menu, I have these options:
Hardware Mixing
EAX 2.0
Advanced EAX HD
I can turn any combination of those on or off, and I'm not really sure which ones I should have on and off. Turning on Hardware Mixing and Advanced EAX HD seems to have the best results, but then the sound starts jacking up after playing for a few minutes and eventually, the actual gameplay itself will start becoming choppy, making it impossible to continue playing. It even becomes hard to navigate the menus because the cursor is affected by the choppiness as well.
And the popping and crackling even continues after I exit the game, even in Windows, but to a lesser extent. And it seems to quit completely after a few minutes. Very strange.
Also, I tried disabling SLI and it did not seem to make a difference.
What is going on here? I just want to play this game with 5.1 surround sound and, preferably, EAX, because I do like the way it sounds. It's just that I can't play with EAX because it starts jacking up after awhile.
Edit: It seems that turning on "Hardware Mixing" enables discrete 5.1 channels. Without Hardware Mixing on, I only get stereo output from F.E.A.R. Is this correct behavior? I'm testing further to see if the popping and crackling occurs when Hardware Mixing is enabled (but not any of the EAX settings). I'll report back when I know.
Edit #2: After several minutes of playing with only Hardware Mixing enabled (and no EAX), no popping or crackling occurred. I will continue to test different combinations.
Edit #3: After more testing, it seems that I can use Hardware Mixing (which enables discrete 5.1 channels) and Advanced EAX HD together, which sounds absolutely fantastic. I believe that the problem is caused when I enable EAX 2.0 -- even if I immediately disable it, it seems like it actually starts causing a problem. So what I did was completely restart the game (and my computer) and ONLY enable Hardware Mixing and Advanced EAX HD making sure not to touch EAX 2.0 at all, leaving it disabled.
I've been playing for about an hour with no pops or crackles at all, let's hope it stays that way!
tl;dr - Turning on EAX 2.0 and Advanced EAX HD at the same time can cause undesirable results even if you turn off EAX 2.0. Restart the game (and perhaps your computer) to make sure that when you start the game, EAX 2.0 is completely disabled and ONLY enable HW Mixing and Advanced EAX HD.
Edit #4: Sadly, I am still noticing some intermittent popping, but after playing for awhile it never gets extremely bad. It is much less severe than earlier. Not sure where to go from here.

Originally Posted by Thalyn
Well, I found my copy of FEAR and loaded it up. Patched it to 1.08 (which meant re-downloading the patch, since the one I got before was the US version - mine game is apparently the UK one, which actually has a patch half the size) and fired it up.
Just for curiosity I didn't install ALchemy straight away. As I suspected, none of the advanced sound mode options were enabled, which means they've just got an overly complicated menu. It could have just as easily been one option called "Audio Processing" with "Hardware", "EAX 2.0" and "EAX Advanced HD" as the available options - no need for a "Software" setting since it would be disabled without any of those, and the others could be en-/dis-abled based on your hardware capabilities. Oh well - chalk that one up to poor menu design.
When I did install ALchemy, however, I just used the default settings - 4 buffers at 25 duration - and turned on all three options in-game. I played through until the first checkpoint in the 3rd "level" (after the third loading screen w/briefing) and didn't notice anything unwanted with the sound. It appears that I'm using ALchemy 1.43.21, going by the installation files properties, but in all honesty I'm just using what came with the latest Recon3D drivers.
The nearest equivalent I can find for the X-Fi Titanium is a beta 1.43.06, but I might be able to find a way to upload the Recon3D one somewhere if you want to see if it works and fixes the problem. Alternatively, they can be extracted from the driver suite for the Recon3D easy enough. I use 7-Zip to do it, but other archive programs can probably do it as well. Look in the Audio\extras\Audio\ALchemy directory.
It's a shame the protagonist in FEAR keeps wigging out. It's actually a pretty darned good shooter when it's not trying to warp your brain - but at least there's no baby crying like when Max Payne goes nuts.
I just noticed that I get popping, crackling, and eventually game-freezing in Left 4 Dead 2, as well.
I used Alchemy to enable EAX for Left 4 Dead to (I read in the FAQ on Creative's Alchemy page that you could enable it for source engine games), and while playing, I starting hearing pops and stuff just like as in F.E.A.R. Eventually, the game started lagging as well (like in F.E.A.R.), and I had to quit out. It even persisted in windows for a bit as I would notice it when changing the volume and hearing the little "ding" with a pop or crackle in it. I restarted my computer.
I wonder if perhaps the problem isn't Alchemy, but if my sound card is overheating? But that seems a bit far-fetched. I do have two gpus which produce a lot of heat, but both of them stay within safe temperatures (though they do get close at times). In fact, one of them is even water-cooled, and it stays very cool.
It just seems especially strange that, although diminished, the pops and crackles continue even when I quit to my desktop. I don't hear them unless a sound is playing, though. And even then, it is quite diminished from they way it was during the game.
Also, how do I check my version of Alchemy? Could I not use the software update to get the latest version?
Edit: I just tried the software update. It said that my version of Alchemy is 1.41.02, and that I have the latest version installed.
Do different versions of Alchemy exist for different Creative cards? For example, perhaps 1.41.02 IS the most recent version for my x-fi titanium, but not for your recon3D.. Or can I use any version of Alchemy? Maybe getting the most recent version would fix my problems.
Edit #2: I found version 1.43.06 of Alchemy. I went to the x-fi titanium's page on Creative's site and clicked on "beta application", and it was there. Downloading/installing now and testing.
Edit #3: Version 1.43.06 of Alchemy does not seem to work. I do not get any EAX effects in F.E.A.R. at all, no matter which combination of options are enabled.
Also, as a side note, does "EAX Effects" need to be enabled in the audio control panel? I've tried it both ways, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

EAX Console issues: An error has occur

Hi there. My name is Emil, 2 years old, and from Gothenburg, Sweden.
I have a SoundBlaster Audigy 2ZS and EAX console , 5. i think. I've searched the board and read the FAQ without any help at all, so i made a new thread.
Yesterday, my EAX Console flipped out, or as a matter of fact, my whole Creative MediaSourcePlayer and all of it's function flipped out. Whenever i try to launch the following program, it says an error has occurred:
Surroundmixer (Surmixer)
EAX Console
AudioHQ
Creative MediaSource Player
THX Setup Console
Speaker Settings
Diagnostics
Graphic Equalizer
I've tried the following things:
) Reboot
2) Installing CMS_PCAPP_LB_3_30_2.exe as stated in the help.
I don't know anything about Hardware, so for me to switch PCIslots and stuff like that is impossible. I have no issues about regedit or stuff like that, but I just can't handle anything concluding the hardware.
Thanks in advance, and regards // Emil Svensson, Sweden.

IIrc, this issue has already been here (though looooong ago) and the cure were to reinstall some dll(s), but I can't remember which ones.
If not already tried this, try w/ reinstalling the whole software bundle from original CD (no drivers, but software only). You can start the installer from CD by running the start.exe which can be found on folder CTRun\.
Hoppas det ?r en l?sning.
jutapa

A Petition to ask Creative to update the firmware of the Zen Touch to Include EAX capabiliti

Hi. I have been looking for a new hard dri've MP3 player and am thinking about getting the Zen Touch. But I was unhappy that creative removed the EAX functions that were in their other players. I will be sending this to creative to show them that people do like EAX in the player. If you would like to help me with this you can post and leave your name. Thanks! This was taken off of the creative Zen Extra?s website describing EAX: Customize Your Audio Playback with Innovati've EAX? Technologies Advanced EQ lets you customize your music playback with Equalizer presets or set your own using the 4-band custom equalizer Smart Volume Management? adjusts the playback volume of all the tracks on your playlist so they will remain at the same level without you reaching for the volume control between songs! Time Scaling speeds up or slows down an audio track with no distortion Sleep Timer and Wake to Music Feature Environmental Effects simulate audio environments such as "Concert Hall" or "Arena" Spatialization Effects expand your soundstage
See here: http://eax.creative.com/nomad/ To go to the EAX website to learn some more.
If you look HERE on the little flash demo you can see in the LCD screen of the touch that this picture of the touch HAS EAX. If the touch had EAX and creative removed it just before selling it then it must be easy to put back in.
Update:

Hi everyone.
So I just went through all through posts to see how many names we have, and it turns out that there was much more discution than I thought there was. With all the names from the thread and from what UT-king has added we have ~556~ names. Its less than what I thought it was, but its still really good.
The thread has been read 6795 times, has been posted on 36 times, and has a 5 star rating.
Thanks every one for helping me with this !
Here is the post that has the signatures that UT-King has collected. http://forums.americas.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=dap&message.id=4732#M4732 You will need to scroll down a bit as it is the 5th post on that page
Uptaded on 4/27/05

Message Edited by Torstein on 04-28-2005 06:54 AM


Spetznaz24 wrote:
I agree, Creative needs to put the EAX function back and allow for it to be USB MASS Storage Device without drivers,
Sergey K.
I agree with the EAX Function back, and also the USB MASS Storage Device.dzyl-

Creative and EAX technology

I canno't find any sound cards other then creativ's that support EAX 3 Advenced HD or higher. All Turtle Beach, Fortissmo and other soun cards I found have at most EAX 2.0.
Do you guys know of a sound card that support EAX above 2.0 AND is NOT a creative product?
Please respond... Thank you

No. Creative has that market cornered. Unless a company were to pay for the EAX licensing for 3-4-5 (EAX). I know it really does blow too. While like the Audigy series it's not healthy to not have competition because it lowers the overall quality and future outlook of PC soundcards as whole ... IMHO. I wish nVIDA had continued Soundstorm technology but they didn't. The most that we could hope for right now would be better implementations of onboard sound (for gaming) though you are still limited to to EAX and 2, but just like the SB Li've 24 bit it's done in software - so there is a huge CPU hit when you enable EAX in games with onboard sound.Message Edited by Wolfen on -0-2005 09:58 AM

ALchemy and advanced EAX effects on Vis

After upgrading to Vista, I thought little about the omission of DirectSound until I started playing World of Warcraft again last night. EAX effects are gone!
So after spending a few hours reading up on solutions, I stumbled across Creative ALchemy, which promised a solution. I've installed it and converted the .dll's correctly, but nothing has changed! The advanced reverb effects that previously made World of Warcraft so enjoyable are still gone, and the sound is still thoroughly "flat".
I'm no sound expert and it's certainly possible that basic DirectSound effects were added through OpenAL, but I do know that the advanced EAX effects are gone.
Anyone have a solution? Is this a planned feature in a future release, or does it sound like the problem may be with World of Warcraft, or something with my own driver installation? Thanks in advance,
~Sangye Ince-Johannsen

Alright, here's what my log said:
Logging Time : 5/5/2007 at 5:06:34
Loaded ini file from D:\Games\World of Warcraft
NOTE : If you have a SB X-Fi card, please use the Creative Audio Console application to enable 'Game Mode'.
Failed to initialize OpenAL
DirectSoundEnumerateA : Failed to load and initialize ct_oal.dll, falling back to dsound.dll
NOTE : If you have a SB X-Fi card, please use the Creative Audio Console application to enable 'Game Mode'.
Failed to initialize OpenAL
DirectSoundCreate8 : Failed to load and initialize ct_oal.dll, falling back to dsound.dll
So, I switched to Game Mode, and now my game sound has completely stopped working. The new log, however, is clean:
Logging Time : 5/5/2007 at 6:0:33
Loaded ini file from D:\Games\World of Warcraft
Thanks for the response. Any idea what the problem may be in light of these logs?
Thanks again,
~Sangye Ince-Johannsen

Alchemy and EAX doesn't w

Hi
I'm trying to get EAX sound working in games using Vista, X-Fi Extreme Music and Creative Alchemy.
I've installed alchemy and added the games in the console yet the EAX options in game are still greyed out.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Flim

Yes I managed to get it working. Seems I didn't choose to install EAX Unified when installing Tomb Raider angel Of Darkness.

How to install the olds special effects of voices EAX in the Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Platin

Dear forum Members:?
Today I acquired the new Sound Blaster X-Fi Fataty Champion Series Platinum, but I have taken myself the surprise that the sound effects EAX - that in?the old card included voice effects like? ZEUS, Man -> Woman, Woman -> Man, Squirrel, etc., - they are no longer in the options of?EAX, and the sound environments only come.
For my it is very important that EAX has those?special sound effects that he had the old one?version of Audigy, since with them we took place?voices distorted in a radial program that?we transmit every Friday for Internet, since 6 years old.
Without those effects, a complete block of the program - the humor block-, it won't be been able to make,?and this will be a great loss for our?transmission and our auditors.
For it, I request them earnestly that me?indicate how to be able to install the old effects?special of EAX, particularly the Voices?
distorted, since it is fundamental for?our work, and without them the purchase of this?new card will provoke us a bigger problem in?time of solving it.
I request everyone them to assist?this request?to the brevity?possible, since really we need the effects?special EAX to work in our radio.
?Thanks
Alexis L?pez Tapia
?Estimados Se?ores:?Hoy adquir? la nueva Sound Blaster X-Fi Fataty?Champion Series Platinum, pero me he llevado la sorpresa de que los efectos de sonido EAX -que en la antigua tarjeta inclu?an efectos de voz como ZEUS, Hombre -> Mujer, Mujer -> Hombre, Ardilla, etc.,- ya no se encuentran en las opciones de EAX, y s?lo vienen los entornos de sonido. Para mi es muy importante que EAX tenga los efectos de sonido especiales que ten?a la antigua versi?n de Audigy, ya que con ellos produc?amos voces distorsionadas en un programa radial que transmitimos todos los viernes por Internet, desde hace 6 a?os. Sin esos efectos, un bloque completo del programa -el bloque de humor-, no podr? hacerse, y esto ser? una gran p?rdida para nuestra
transmisi?n y para nuestros auditores. Por ello, les pido encarecidamente que me indiquen c?mo poder instalar los antiguos efectos especiales de EAX, particularmente las Voces distorsionadas, ya que es fundamental para nuestro trabajo, y sin ellos la compra de esta nueva tarjeta nos provocar? un problema mayor en vez de solucionarlo. A quien sepa como hacerlo,?le ruego atender mi solicitud a la brevedad posible, ya que realmente necesitamos los efectos
especiales EAX para trabajar en nuestra radio. Atentamente
Alexis L?pez Tapia

Bredbandsbandit,
The headsets for it will need to use /8'' minijack connecters (or up to /4'' if you get the Platinum/Fatalty/Elite Pro versions). USB headsets use their own software codec, basically making them software based sound devices which would bypass all of the advantages of the X-Fi.
A really great headset choice for this would be the Creative ProGamer Headset NC22 however if you are looking for headphones I have used the Creative HN-505 Noise Cancelling Headphones with the X-Fi (I hope to have some impressions up in a few days) and they work absolutely amazingly. Basically you would do best with closed ear headphones with a good quality microphone.
Jeremy

Which card should I buy if I like customizable EAX/DSP listening effects?

Hello all,
I'll first tell you, what audio system I currently use&know, then what I am looking for... and about the mispurchase I have unfortunately already made.
My current main audio system:
SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium PCI-E on Win7 x64
Samsung HW-C770 (includes 7.1 boxes and an AVR that supports distinct 8-channel connection to the PC)
my EAX/DSP listening profiles created in Creative Console Launcher / Audio Creation Mode (especially making use of custom Reverb and Chorus DSP effects for my/our music&film listening enhancement and pleasure...)
I am looking for:
a small version of the above for another room
must be compatible with my Laptop => USB connection!
(I already have 5.1 boxes with a built-in amplifier for this room)
My mispurchase: I already bought a SoundBlaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro and am very disappointed with it, because:
only the Creative Console Launcher / Entertainment Console is available! (The few predefined EAX environment effects available in the entertainment console are not customizable. Also, they sound pretty bad in my ears compared to my hand-crafted ones...)
the Audio Creation Console is not available (not even the game console), so no customizable effects like Reverb/Chorus/AutoWah at all!
I already found the sad cause for this: this USB card does not have a real X-Fi chip built-in and is pretty much just a software solution (TruStudio...) without user-programmable DSP effects!
Question 1:
Does anyone know of any Creative USB sound card that allows me to create custom EAX/DSP listening profiles (i.e. customizing the Reverb, Chorus, Mixer settings like in audio creation mode...)?
What about the non-pro version of the X-Fi 5.1 Surround, maybe/hopefully, because it is from the pre-TruStudio generation? Can someone with this card please either confirm or deny, before I make my second mispurchase...?
Question 2:
Secondly, I already wonder what Sound Card I should buy, when I'll assemble my new main PC system sometime next year. As explained above, I need 7.1 for my boxes and a programmable DSP for listening pleasure.
I read daniel_k's post about the Recon3D generation cards and was appalled, because he says: "... X-Fi Titanium Features you'll be missing: ... Fully programmable DSP in Audio Creation mode.". So, this is a no-go for me!
What about the new ZxR, maybe? Does its hardware have the X-Fi features back or is it still weaker like the Recon3D?
Thanks for your input!

Many of the good effects and presets from the SoundBlaster Audigy (or even Live!) generation unfortunately did not make it into the X-Fi software generation, but you are lucky: the customizable Jazz Club preset did. To find it, enter audio creation mode and click on the "..."-button of the Reverb effect. Then open the drop-down box and choose "Jazz club". Click on the advanced button to see (and optionally change) all of its effect details (this screenshot is for the Royal Hall effect, but the Jazz Club is at the same place...)
It is not so easy with the X-Fi software to stack two EAX/DSP effects, but this is necessary for great-sounding custom audio profiles. However, it is possible to get back about 80% of the features you once had with the older Audigy software generation via a method that I have detailed in another thread.
So you see: even during the Audigy=>X-Fi transition there has already been some feature loss. Then the effect features were lost altogether on hardware level(!) in the transition from X-Fi=>Recon3D as Daniel K. pointed out. My hope was that Creative brings them back in the Z series, but I fear this company has shredded yet another one of its once great features/assets...
This is really a pity, because with proper marketing and just a few more software development days (like for an export&import option for sharing custom audio presets with friends) these features and listening effects could have made a big selling point in the entertainment market... Therefore I am also honestly worried about Creative's future as they continue to make severe marketing beginner's mistakes and don't use/advertise their strengths!
I also had the idea of looking for a good EAX-based audio player when I changed to the X-Fi generation, but found nothing that came remotely close to the EAX/DSP effects one could/can configure with the SB Audigy or X-Fi (with the help of my workaround). If someone knows of a good EAX software playback solution, please let us know as it might be the only viable way after the X-Fi generation to get these features back!
>>"You may have to do the same as what im going to do for my Z until Creative bring it back with a upgrade for us unhappy customers who thrive on this feature."
I have already waited years for them to bring back these basic Audigy features into the X-Fi software generation. I have long since lost this hope...
Thanks for the link to the X-Fi HD USB card, but it is not useful for my scenario as I have 5.1 speakers. Additionally, it is also based on this TruStudio software, i.e. I assume that it is not software-capable of configuring EAX/DSP listening profiles either. (Can someone confirm?)
>>"but i cant believe the X-Fi version doesn't even have the X-Fi Core it has to have a cut down version at least."
I have this info from a German forum, where they basically say that the 5.1 surround USB card does not have a real X-Fi chip, because it is built like the X-Fi Xtreme Audio (which doesn't have one either). I think this is plausible. In the same thread it is also confimed (by a cited eMail answer from Creative support) that the 5.1 surround only offers the entertainment mode (and thus loses out on all the entertainment/listening effects that you can only configure with "audio creation mode", which should simply be named "expert mode" in my opinion).

A problem about EAX

A problem about EAXX We have some problem in our development when using "Creative OpenAL SDK . (ver 3.03)". We create "OpenAL device" using "Generic Software"
and play audio with EAX2.0. But the EAX effect works on one computer while it doesn't work on another one. Followings are the two computers' configuration:
The computer which works well with EAX:
Operation system: Windows XP SP3
Motherboard chipset: Intel i945G
Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Digital Deluxe
OpenAL.dll version: 6.4.0357.22
Wrap_oal.dll version: 2..8.
The computer which doesn't work with EAX:
Operation system: Windows XP SP3
Motherboard chipset: Intel i945GC
Sound card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Digital Deluxe
OpenAL.dll version: 6.4.0357.22
Wrap_oal.dll version: 2..8.

Hello gozhu_g,
I suggest getting in touch with the developers on your inquiry. Here's their site.

Doom3 EAX 4.0 with X-Fi, t

hello,
sorry my english is very bad, i?m coming from germany but i try it
i will buy the x-fi soundcard when it'ss available. now i have a audigy 2 zs soundcard and i?m playing doom3 with the eax 4 patch from activision. but there are many problems (with beta drivers and the latest offical driver?s, i tried with the normal and beta driver, all right installed), pc restart?s, soundbugs, overriden sounds (mastervolume and wave and bass are on down level but i have overriden sounds sometimes), reverse channels (front right sounds are on back right for example) and any more. this cost me much patience.
i hope this will be fixed with the drivers from the x-fi soundcard. my question to you: can i play doom3 with the patch from activision and the normal drivers from my new x-fi soundcard well? or can this make problems with a new soundcard, because the patch from activision was only for audigy2/4
i hope you can me help
thanks and sorry f?r my bad english!
EDIT: i have logitech z-5550 5. speakers on my audigyMessage Edited by nightboy8 on 08-3-2005 05:0 PM

Doom3's EAX needs latest beta driver, in order to work with a Audigy soundcard. If not using latest beta driver, you need to disable EAX in Doom3. Or else you get sound errors.
X-FI cards should work with Doom3 EAX out of the box!

X-Fi XtremeMusic Adding EAX to MI

Hello, I have not used a Creative Labs since the Li've! Value, But I recently bought an X-Fi and asside from some crashes or dislike of software interface I enjoy it.
However, I've always had a small dabble in MIDI and mostly have a backlog of favorites from the past. Some MIDIS by default are very dull sounding like they are playing in a sound-padded room. Well with Li've! I could easy choose to apply some Reverb and/or Chorus to the MIDIs and they sounded better.
With X-Fi, I can't seem to find anything like this. I used Entertainment mode, and the EAX tab has the option to turn on EAX and I choose one of the few presets and they effect my .WAV files but when I play a MIDI I still get no extra reverb and they still sound very flat.
I've tried looking into the creation mode but I'll be completely honest this mode confuses the heck out of me and usually after fidgeting with different things I just end up resetting the default settings.
Please and thanks for any advice!
--Chris

Thanks for the reply,
I am/was considering returning this X-Fi for an Audigy. I'm not a audiophile or sound buff, heck I have a fairly cheap set of 5. surround from Logitech but I do like what it can do with sound quality for video/DVD playback. The MIDI thing is really just a pet peeve, one of those "the older ones can do it why can't this one?" type of situation I suppose. I also get messed up with the fact that all audio settings are saved via the "mode" X-fi is in, ie if I have the volumes way down in Game mode and forget thats on and switch to Entertainment mode the sound is blasted way up. I also use the X-fi as an line-in for the audio on my Playstation 2 and it allows the Crystalizer and CSS-Surround for what would otherwise be flat stereo which is cool.
So I guess I'm still on the fence; I like the audio enhancements in X-fi however buggy some of it may be yet, I also want to load big sound fonts and add layers of effects to enhance playback of older MIDIs I and friends created.

X-Fi XtremeMusic and EAX effe

Just got a Dell computer with an X-Fi card in it. My old Soundblaster X-Gamer had a control panel app that let me choose various EAX effects like reverb and some weird stuff to make my voice sound funny.
The only soundcard-related software on my new system is the "Creative Audio Console", which doesn't seem to let me choose EAX effects.
Am I missing some software? I checked the download section for my card, but all I see are various "Creative MediaSource" ap
ps.
Or am I looking in the wrong place?
Thanks for any help you can provide!Message Edited by Warwind on 0-3-2006 2:52 AM

Ahh, now that could be. The driver dl at CL site only includes the basic stuff, not all the "goodies". Without an install CD you won't get a bunch of apps n such. Still seems like Dolby and such should be showing in AC even from just the basic driver pack. Did you also install the AC update you can dl? Definitly contact Dell for replacement CD anyway. You still may want to ask Dell just how different their card is from a retail card tho to make sure. I know things like Dolby require license fee's and my concern was that perhaps, so Dell gets a lower cost for the card, they choose to not have CL add that feature on the OEM board. If thats the case it really sux & I'd be yelling a bit I think.

EAX issues in games with Audigy SE, one way or the ot

Hello everyone. I hope I'm asking for help in the correct forum. If not, please forgive my noobishness. =)?I don't know what's wrong, but EAX in Bioshock has terrible issues. I have XPx64 SP2, Audigy SE and when my corvette was new, I obtained SoundBlaster drivers specifically for x64 from April 06. But these were terrible. In many games (f.e. FEAR) the sound was terribly distorted after a while with unbearable loud mechanic buzzing. I had a serious issue in Oblivion as it was rebooting my computer when I was loading a game and it took me a while until I realized that the x64 drivers are causing it. I got rid of them and installed reference drivers I bought on CD with the card and everything was fine. Now Bioshock came out. Overall the EAX works good in it, but I have some serious crackling. I tried to lower the sound channels/streams values in INI, but it didn't remove crackling. So I though I would update drivers again. Indeed, Creative has released unified drivers for XP and Vista last July. I installed them, launched Bioshock with EAX ON, loaded a game and ... AARGH, my ears! The sound was like zapping loudly and rapidly, a real acoustic horror. This means I have serious EAX issues with all newer drivers than the reference ones on CD, but even with the new ones I have crackling in Bioshock anyway, with addition of the audio distortion. I have tried to turn off EAX and use CMMS3D instead, with Reverb which doesn't seem to cause any problems in BS. The sound was deep and rich, except that the crackling and stuttering is still there!?No flawless sound for me. Is my Soundblaster physically borked or something... =(?

Well, I know that with SE, EAX processing is left for the CPU. You think this would be the source of problem?
I have no option to select from software or hardware mode in games' audio menu, devs normally don't do add that option to audio menus (at least I never seen it in any game yet). In games I can normally only select whether I want EAX or not, or just like in case of BioShock, whether I want to turn Reverb on or off, and it would be left for the drivers to call the CPU to process EAX.Message Edited by RogueKeeper on 0-6-200707:5 AM

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