All should read, HOW TO CORRECT SCP on X-FI Fatal

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OK, I'll start of by saying I've been having problems with my X-FI Sound Card. SCP especially in Battlefield 2 during an artillery barrage and problems occurred in Rome Total War when the calvary charge was occurring. I spent many months trying to resolve my problem, but in the end I didn't succeed. I even dished out $2500 on a new PC system. I used to have an AMD FX-57 CPU, Gigabyte N-Force 4 Ultra motherboard, X-FI Fatalty sound card, 600 Watt power supply, Corsair DDR 400 (2Gig), and a Geforce 7900 GTX.
The system I just purchased is an ASUS P965 Chipset motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo Extreme processor, new power supply rated at 600 Watts, DDR2 Memory at 800MHZ using 4-4-4-2 timings, I used the same video card and sound card (Geforce 7900GTX and X-FI Fatalty). Even after purchasing a new system: believe it or not, the same SCP problem occurred in the same games. Note: The new Intel Chipset P965, CPU, power supply, and memory DID NOT CORRECT the SCP problem.
This is how I corrected the problem so far. First, I lowered my speaker volume on my Logitech Z5500 speakers to 40%. Next I went into the Game Console of the X-FI. My adjustments are as follows:
CMSS-3D is disabled
24-bit Crystalizer is enabled and set at 00%
EQ (Equalizer settings from left to right)
0, 6, 6, 3., .3, 2.8, 4.4, ., -2, -2. (Note: 8k and 6k eq settings may cause the SCP, so set them both to -2)
Mixer: Both wave and midi synth are at 80%, all others are disabled
EAX is enabled and set at 2db or 00%
Speakers are set at 5.
Bass Boost is disabled
Master volume is 40%
A few notes:
If volume panel for X-FI starts up (the icon near the system clock)
be sure to right click the icon and select "select audio device" then select X-FI from the menu. I think "Windows Default" is the default value so change it.
I think the EQ (Equalizer) settings really helped out.
Let me know if SCP is cured by setting both 8k and 6k to -2.
Please keep me informed if this helped anybody.
Thanks.

Answer 1

What you just did is to lower the SCP sound level by lowering the medium/high-end of the audio spectrum. It might be acceptable for you, but I don't think enybody else would accept to listen music ao even play games with the sounds over 8kHz attenuated to the maximum. That defeats the purpouse of buying the soundcard - you would be better with on-board.
Try to cancel the Crystalizer (that you have pushed now to 00% and is no use in games anyway) and bring the EQ back to center position (or better - don't use it at all).
About the "windows default" issue - did you disable from BIOS and Windows the on-board sound? It is te first thing to do when you add a Creative soundcard.
Message Edited by SoNic2367 on 09-3-2006 06:27 AM