Creative do it again with their shoddy driv

Really don't know whether Creative are expecting to go forwards, backwards, sideways or just disappear in a wormhole with their so-called "drivers". Been using the very old drivers for Vista because its the only "decent" (I use the term very loosely) one that gives me some sort of use while gaming. I recently downloaded the newest drivers for my X-Fi Fatality, and the sound hasn't really got any better, however my mic is less than appaling (forget satisfactory or mediocre). The mic can tell that I'm talking and everything so the input is fine, however the output is horrific. Its like I've got a fan between my mouth and the mic, or I'm using one of those voiceboxes that react to vibrations in your throat giving you a monotonic sound. I rely HEAVILY on VoIP when playing games such as CounterStrike Source, so if I have no Vo, it more or less takes away half the game as I have to stop, type, and risk getting killed. Probably a stupid question, but has anyone else had this issue? And if anyone has miraculously managed to rectify this problem, how did you do it's

palfi wrote:
Concider my Xfi works very well on my Vista 32 - I gues its something to do with your set up and not your Creative Xfi or its drivers?
I beg to differ. My X-Fi works fine under Vista 32. It works OK (besides the odd SCP) with the 2.3 drivers under Vista 64. With the 2.5 drivers, and 4GB of RAM, the microphone doesn't work correctly under Vista 64. If the RAM is restricted to a lower amount, it works again. As an experiment I plugged my X-Fi into a different machine, running Vista 64 with 4GB, but on a 680i chipset (my main system is 975X). The 2.5 drivers sometimes work (that is, the microphone works correctly). I say "sometimes" though, because about a third of the time the system is started, the only noise I hear is "PSSSSHHHHSSSHHHHSSSHHHH" which doesn't stop until the system is rebooted. The X-Fi is now sitting on a shelf until new drivers are released. Strangely enough, the?alternati've soundcards are working just fine in these very same systems (although admittedly, they don't quite have the same sound quality of the X-Fi when it is working correctly).

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