EVGA nForce 680i SLI / X-FI Xtreme Gamer Fatality...any compatibility issu

Recently ordered a system with these components and was wondering if there were any compatibility issues. Seems like this card has a lot of problems...should have done more research...

In all seriousness, return the card. Do it NOW because you still have the chance to. Don't wait until it's too late.
Then after that, if you are curious why I say that, do some searches about other issues everyone is having and Creative not being very responsi've.
Search (either here or use Google for external websites) for "ha20x2k.sys" and "BSOD" (or a combination of both). "Crash" and "BF242" or even other games such as WoW and CoH - just be (pun not intended) creative.
Don't be like the others here (like myself), who own a very expensi've paper weight. Sure you can continue to use it for listening to music, but that's like buying a sports car and just being able to use the stereo.Message Edited by naddie on 04-2-200706:54 AM

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X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatality and external deco

Hello. I have problems with my X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatality. I connect the sound car to a external Denon decoder?with a RCA Coxial cable. I listen the sounds of computer, but i don?t have dolby or dts sound. In DVD sound in DOLBY ok using Power DVD for example. But, in HD avis for example with AC3, the decoder don?t detect the 5. sound. Looking in Creative online Help I view thar the Creative Console have a option of Dolby and DTS where i can put the mode passthrough to use a external decode, but in my creative consolo this option don?t appear. I probe to uninstall and install again the drivers but don?t work. What happen? How I can resolve??p.d: Sorry for my english, but I don?t speak english. THANKS?EDIT: I have Windows XP SP2Message Edited by tusqui on -05-200702:52 AM

Sorry to hear of your problem, the same thing happened to me when I made the mistake of downloading a "new" driver from the Microsoft Update Website. It was not the proper driver for our soundcard and changed registry settings that shut off the S/PDIF output.
The Problem--this model soundcard does not use hardware to process Dolby Digital or DTS. That is why you are getting Dolby Digital and DTS when you use Cyberlink DVD, the Cyberlink program is decoding it using software.
The Solution--My Digital (S/PDIF) out to external processor worked fine until the Microsoft Update incident.
I shall presume that your problems are also driver related. I tried going back to a restore point...no good.
I tried erasing all remnants of the soundcard driver, and reinstalling from the original CD ROM...no good.
I then entered the registry, and using the search function found all entries which contained the letters S/PDIF, I then looked for those that were shut off (0) and switched them on (). Unfortunately I did all of them at once, so I do not know for sure which ones need to be turned on. However, the good news is then the external processor showed it was receiving raw Dolby Digital and DTS signals.
My Advice--Try going back to a restore point first, if unsuccessful, follow by the deletion of all Soundblaster drivers and reload using your original Soundblaster CD ROM, lastly, if nothing else worked, and you know your way around the registry, use my solution. Important Note--If you are not familiar with the registry--DO NOT MONKEY WITH IT. You could cause much greater problems than you already have.
However, as with all things regarding computers, what worked for me may not work for you. If your sound card never outputted raw Dolby Digital and DTS signals, than perhaps it is a hardware defect. In my case, everything worked until that dog gone Microsoft put that (new) driver out. I will never again use any hardware drivers posted on Microsoft Update. I might suggest going back and reading through the older post on this website, this problem came up right after the Microsoft incident, it was unfortunate that I did not see the post before performing the destructi've download. I hope this information helps in some way.
Good Luck!

X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatality Pro Vista x64 Drivers Unavailabl

How come there arent any dirvers for my X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatality Pro for Vista x64 ?
Keeps saying.. "No Update Available"Message Edited by RudeBoyNvidia on 06-26-200709:50 PM

Tnx Will c what I can do. It makes it easier to plug?the earphones?in/out in the front that the back. Would be nice if the card could switch between the output sounds.

PROBLEMS Foxconn G965 chipset WITH Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal

Hello every body.
I have found a driver problem of X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatalty Professional Series and the motherboard Foxconn G9657MA-8KS2H.
With the install process you dont have problem, and with music... but when you go to play the EAX effects doesnt work properly (metalic noise), at least it fault down.
With other motherboards there is no problem. Of course I have tried everything, (drivers, thanche the pci slot, another games... GRAW, Battlefield 242, Call of duty etc... It doesnt work.
Then I tried with my old Creative Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro, and the same problem with old drivers. I download this november drivers and then it works fine.
The sound is similer (less voices but similar, good sound), but I havent got the night mode sound level that let me play during the night without making noise (gun, explosions etc sound very loud).
Some one knows where can I get a modified driver that runs with chipset G965?
ThanksMessage Edited by SuperCurro on 0-3-200703:56 AM
Message Edited by SuperCurro on 0-3-200703:58 AM

I had to switch from game mode to entertainment mode using the Creative Console Launder software applet. Once I made the change all fi've speakers are working, I would prefer that they all work in game mode but for now until I can find a better solution this will have too work for now. I hope this helps for you.

P6N SLI Diamond (nforce 680i SLI) and Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale

From what I gathered, P6N Diamond doesn't officially support the C2D E8400 cpu, but I suspect that it should work with the newest bios revision (1.3).
Can anyone confirm this for me? I need someone with a P6N Diamond and E8400 to confirm that this ineed works!
Note that it does not have to have ANY overclocking capability, only to run stable at stock settings.

Quote from: andrihb on 13-February-09, 12:19:37
MSI Support has just replied and they gave me a beta bios (1.41) that supposedly lets me use 45nm chips with P6N Diamond.
I still wouldn't mind if someone that has used E8xxx with this mb would comment about their experience.
Just called MSI, they said board doesn't support E8400 and there is no BETA BIOS. What gives?

X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatality Pro doesn't work anymore?

So a few days ago I re-formatted my computer (with Windows Vista). The sound drivers installed fine, and everything was good. Fast forward to today. Sound was working, but after a restart my sound only comes through my headset. From checking in control panel, it doesn't even see my card. I re-installed the drivers, no dice. I even uninstalled the drivers, did a sweep with Driver Sweeper, restarted, and reinstalled, but nothing.
Any ideas?

Hi,
Yes 6. is still available in this driver - I also have a 6. set up (Inspire 6700 speakers).
But only under XP - if you use Vista then you only get 5. or 7..
Hope that helps
Colin

Having trouble with my Xtreme Gamer sound card

I have an Alienware computer that came with the card and its software pre-installed. It has worked fine until today when BF2 would no longer recognize the card. When I uninstalled the software to reinstall it, it said I didn't have any devices. What should I do? I want to refrain from opening the case. Thanks!

Ya know, it is funny I ran across this thread. I am having the exact same problem with my Alienware and am currently working at trying to resolve it. So far I tried to force the drivers and it did not seem to like that so much. Older patch I found?didn't work. I think my next step is to uninstall everything creative and crack the case open and try removing the card. Then try a different slot if able or boot the comp a couple times without it, and then install it back in the?same slot. No IRQ?problems I checked that. I read somewhere that sometimes something in the bios can bug out and it needs to be re-checked in. Not sure of the exact terms of it atm, but I hope you get the idea. A quick fix that I did find that should work for you as well is to make sure?all?Creative?drivers are cleaned out and then use windows update to search for optional downloads. It finds a driver for the X-Fi that actually works.
Below is a copy/paste of a request for help?I placed on the Alienware boards just to give you an idea of where I am at. /startcopy?Hello,
I am at my wits end here. So figured I would come here and ask for some input. Basicly the problem I am having is I have poping/crackling sounds coming from my speakers while playing FSX. What is wierd is it only happens in certain missions and/or planes. It also sounded way messed up at the desktop and during sound tests but I was able to fix that by changing the freq to 24bit lowest hrtz setting studio quality.
I have been doing a ton of research into this problem and it would seem if I updated my drivers there is a good chance there is a fix in there for me.. I would hope so as I have tried everything under the sun. Known knowledge and reading every forum I could find.
The big problem I can't seem to over come is that no matter which drivers I use they tell me I am unable to use them because they do not see a Creative X-Fi on my machine. The newest Creative drivers tell me this. Even the Creative drivers that came with my AW backup disk act the same way. The only driver that I could get to work is the one that windows update supplies when the driver is fully uninstalled. What is even funnier is that when I use my AW Respawn disk that is also installs the same exact drivers that Windows Update installs for that card. Which are ancient. Antique really.
So why would no new Creative drivers want to work? No AW supplied backup drivers want to work? No downloaded X-Fi drivers downloaded from AW site want to work. And why would AW give me a driver for backup when even they themselves obviously did not get that one to work because the respawn disk uses the same old drivers windows update supplies when no drivers are installed?
I have tried Winzip to unpack the the .exe file and update wizard says that I have the best drivers already installed. Even though these ones just came out. I have even tried to force the drivers in with the have disk option and that just resulted in an unbootable pc thanks to the blue screen of death right after bios flash screen.
So, how do I get any Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamer drivers to install. I have to be able to update them, in hopes that they will fix my crackling/static problem..
Just got the machine the other day so I haven't tried installing other games. And I do realize that AW is not respossible for FSX issues. But I really do find it odd that even my backup drivers won't work, and they were not even used anyways during the build process.. I would have hoped this issue would have been fixed in house then. So it has me really concerned.
What is my next step? Bios update?(this computer was built around Nov st 07.), Move card around maybe?(shouldn't this have been done before shipping?).. oh my head hurts from this one. I have never had to fold and give up and come to a forum for help. I am truly stumped.
System is as follows:
[] Area-5. ALX
Alienware P2 Chassis: Alienware? P2 ALX Chassis with AlienIce? 3.0 Video Cooling - Space Black
Chassis Customization : Alienware? Standard System Lighting - Terra Green
High-Performance Liquid Cooling: Alienware? ALX High-Performance Graphics and Processor Liquid Cooling
Graphics Processor: Dual 768MB NVIDIA? GeForce? 8800 Ultra - SLI Enabled - Liquid Cooled!
Processor: Intel? Core? 2 Extreme QX6850 3.0GHz 8MB Cache 333MHz FSB - Overclocked to 3.33GHz!
Includes Liquid Cooling!
Memory: 4GB Low Latency DDR2 Performance SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 x 024MB
Motherboard: Alienware? Approved NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI Motherboard
Operating System (Office software not included): Genuine Windows Vista? Home Premium
Desktop Tuners and Remotes: Without Media Center Remote Control or TV Tuner
System Dri've: Extreme Performance (RAID 0) - .5TB (2 x 750GB) Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7,200 RPM w/ 2 x 6MB Cache
Optical Dri'ves : Single Dri've Configuration - 20X Dual-Layer DVD?RW w/ LightScribe
Enthusiast Essentials: Dual High Performance Gigabit Ethernet Ports
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster? X-Fi? XtremeGamer High Definition 7. Audio - More Info
Power Supply: Alienware? 000 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply
Monitor: No Monitor
Speakers: Logitech? Z-5300e 5. 280-Watt Speakers
Keyboard: Logitech? G5 Gaming Keyboard
Mouse : Logitech? G5 Laser Gaming Mouse
Any input is greatly appreciated, as I am finding not alot of people out there have machines of this nature. So known issues for this config is far and few between.
/endpaste?So far there have been no reply. Someone from Alienware did call us and got in contact with my wife about the post. They?left a message with her?that I should try and install the newest drivers that Creative just released a few days ago. If they would have actually read my post they would have known I did try that. Really my biggest problem left is to get any Creative driver to see I do indeed have?a Creative X-Fi installed so I may update my drivers. Having a sound issue and not being able to update my drivers is driving me insane really. I?honestly?do feel I can learn more by reading around myself than calling them and wasting away a few good hours on the phone with someone that is?gonna?be just as confused about it as I am. lol??Going to get the time to crack her open tonight, late night. I can not wait to pull the numbers off of it and see what I got going on. I will make sure to stop back in and report my findings. Or if anyone has any input, any at all feel free to throw it my way. My ears are wide open on this one.?CB aka CF

Xtreme Music or Xtreme Gam

The Xtreme Gamer looks just like the Xtreme Audio, but apperently it's here to replace the Xtreme Music.. is that true?In any case, which one should I get? Which one is better and at what?Thank You.

It's no the Music being more expensi've, it's the Gamer.Right here. It's 0 Pounds more expensi've.http://www.overclockers.co.uk/produc...atid=&mfrid=59Edit: The Xtreme Music costs 0 Pounds less because it's OEM, as I now see.
So I think I'll get the OEM Xtreme Music. It looks better than the Xtreme Gamer in any case.
Message Edited by Track on 08-0-20072:24 AM

Any known problems with "Xtreme Game Fatal1ty Professional Series" and Nforc

Hello,
i plan to replace my audigy2 with a
"Xtreme Game Fatalty Professional Series".
There are known problems with the card itself and with the Nforce2 chipset?
My board:
MSI K7N2 Delta-L (nForce 2 Ultra400 chipset)
thanks
zivilistMessage Edited by zivilist on 0-3-20060:55 PM

If you are up for the battle that MIGHT transpire with either one of these cards then your welcome to it. EAX will work on games that nati'vely support EAX and the openAL API. Games that are direct sound only will require the ALchemy program to make them work correctly. You can find a list of openAL nati've games on the openAL site...sorry don't have a link for you right now but google it. You might be able to find the list of Direct SOund games that ALchemy works on by going to the ALchemy site as well.
For the most part, stuff is working but I would highly advise you do more research before purchasing any sound cards from Creative. Just check the forums and look under the Vista posts as well as here to get a taste of the issues many are having.

New drivers won't work for X-Fi Xtreme Gamer

I use Windows XP SP 2 with my X-Fi Xtreme Gamer.
I used the Device Manager to uninstall my old drivers (v2.5.0006), rebooted, cancelled the Windows new-hardware popup, and installed the new drivers (v2.5.0008). I had no sound immediately after the installation, though I think I should have heard mouse-clicking sounds and sounds that accompany opening and closing windows from my desktop and Windows Explorer. After restarting after the installation, I still had no sound.
To restore sound, I uninstalled the new drivers and reinstalled the old ones.
Has anyone else encountered this trouble Does anyone know what is happening
Here is some information on my system:
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Version: 5..2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
System Name: YOUR-C7B5E9C69F
User Name: YOUR-C7B5E9C69F\Russell
Windows Directory: C:\WINDOWS
System Directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device: \Device\HarddiskVolume
Locale: United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5..2600.280 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-258)"
Time Zone: Pacific Standard Time
System Manufacturer: Magnell
System Model: ABS Ultimate M6
System Type: X86-based PC
Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe NF4 (Socket 939)
Processor: x86 Family 5 Model 7 Stepping 0 Authentic AMD ~263 MHz (AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 (2.63 GHz), socket 939
BIOS Version/Date: Phoenix Technologies, LTD ASUS A8N-SLI DELUXE ACPI BIOS Revision 006, 3/3/2005
SMBIOS Version: 2.3
Memory: Dual DDR GB PC3200XL Corsair
Total Physical Memory: 2,048.00 MB
Available Physical Memory: .68 GB
Total Virtual Memory: 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory: .96 GB
Page File Space: 3.85 GB
Page File: C:\pagefile.sys
Video: EVGA NVidia GeForce 6800Ultra 256MB
Video Card Drivers: NVidia Forceware drivers version 6.4.00.756
Hard Dri've: Western Digital Raptor 74GB WD740GD 0,000RPM 8MB
Sound: Creative Labs Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer (driver v2.5.0006)
CompUSA Dual Format Double Layer DVD+/-RW USB (R = 6x DVD, 48x CD)
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 93c 9 LCD
Mouse: Logitech G9 Laser (Driver v.4.22.52)
Keyboard: Ideazon MERC Stealth Illuminated Gaming Keyboard (Model No. KUH0702)
Printer: HP Photosmart C5580
Mass Storage Device: Corsair Flash Voyager 2.0 GB (USB 2.0 flash memory dri've)
Power: PC Power and Cooling Turbo-Cool 50
Email: Outlook Express version 6.00.2900.280 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-258)
Virus and Spyware Protection: Norton Internet Security 2009
Internet Service Provider: SBC/Yahoo! Pro DSL

I have solved my own problem. The trouble was that using the Device Manager to uninstall my old drivers did not work. Apparently a file that needed to be deleted was not deleted, and that file prevented the new drivers from working. I finally got the new drivers to work by using the following procedure, which except from some notes I have inserted, was obtained by email from Creative support:
1. Go to Control Panel, Add Remove Programs and un-install all listings related to your audio card. Do not restart your computer when prompted so.
2. Go to Control Panel, and switch to Classic View. Click System, Hardware tab, Device Manager button and delete all sound cards entries in Sound, Video and Game Controllers as well as any previous sound card entries from the Device Manager. ?Note: Personally, to get to Device Manager, I don?t follow these directions. I do this: click the Windows Start button + E, look to the left and right-click My Computer, click Properties, click Hardware tab, click Device Manager.
3. Reboot the computer and cancel out of any driver installation if you are prompted. Insert the Creative Sound Blaster installation CD into your CD-ROM dri've. Exit from the installation wizard if it autoruns.
4. Click Start, Run and then Browse. Browse to Z:\Audio\Drivers\CTZAPXX.EXE, where Z represents the CD Rom Dri've. Choose YES if you receive a prompt "Overwrite existing shared creative audio driver files?" NOTE: This CTZAPXX.EXE file could not be found on my X-Fi Xtreme installation disk by using the Z:\Audio\Drivers\CTZAPXX.EXE path. I had do use the Windows Search engine to do a search on my X-Fi Xtreme installation disk. After finding it, I highlighted the CTZAPXX.EXE program, opened it, and continued with these driver-uninstallation instructions. This seems to be a critical step. If your installation disk doesn't have this file, or if you don't have an installation disk, I suggest doing a Web search for CTZAPXX.EXE. It's a Creative Update Utility, so I don't think it will harm your computer. But I use Windows XP, and I don't know anything about Vista.
5. Select Driver un-installation for WDM drivers and click OK.
6. When prompted to restart, say No.
7. Click Start, Run, type MSCONFIG and press Enter.
8. Check the box next to Selecti've Startup and deselect Load Startup Items.
9. Select the SERVICES tab and select Hide All Microsoft Services.
10. Uncheck all results and click OK.
1. Browse to the C:\Temp folder and C:\Windows\TEMP (if it exists) - all files and folders in the temp folder need to be either deleted or moved to a new folder. ?NOTE: I had to go to my C:\Windows\TEMP file to do this step. Also, I took care to copy and paste all of these TEMP files to a new folder before I tried deleting them. Then I deleted all the Windows\TEMP files that I could. Some would not delete. Indeed some of these files could not be copy and pasted to the new folder. But that was okay. I just left alone those files I could not copy and delete, and I proceeded to delete all of the other files. The TEMP files that I could not delete did not affect my uninstallation of old sound drivers or the installation of new sound drivers.
2. Browse to Program Files, Creative and delete the Sound Blaster Folder - if you get a file that won't delete, right click on the file, click Properties and clear all the attributes. The file should then be able to be deleted.
3. Empty the Recycle Bin, and reboot the computer.
4. If you wish to install your new sound drivers, do so now. Otherwise, go to the next step. If you do install you new drivers?which I would do?don?t restart after the installation. Do the next two steps first.
5. Click on Start, Run. Type MSCONFIG and press Enter.
6. Select Normal Startup, and press the OK button.
7. Reboot the computer
8. At this point I copy-pasted all those Windows\TEMP files from my new folder back to their proper place in Windows\TEMP. Then I deleted the new folder. While restoring these TEMP files to the Windows\TEMP file, I got a couple of messages telling me these files already existed. I clicked No. That is, I did NOT replace or overwrite any existing files in the Windows\TEMP folder.
9. The new sound drivers should now be working.
Message Edited by Solipso on 04-22-2009 07:6 AMMessage Edited by Solipso on 04-22-2009 07:7 AM

Any News (MSI) P6N Diamond (680i) SLI Motherboard

Any one know about the release of (MSI) P6N Diamond (680i) SLI Motherboard

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honestly, if it's not for SLI, I think I'll wait for ATI, ops, AMD RD600 chipset mobo instead.
I complete agree with that. Just getting bored with the Opteron system. I have an insider I am getting a e6600 from for 1/2 price this week, so I was looking at boards. Think I want to try the 680i over the 975, and while the RD600 looks like it will be a winner it's still a ways out.
MSI had stated end of December for the P6N and that time is upon us.
Honestly after the last purchase I swore I would never buy another MSI, but I kind of crave pain that way, after about a year of mods on this current board, and emails with the MSI BIOS crew I think the K8N SLI was the 2nd best Nforce 4 board made out there. Plus it gives me another forum area to read here beside the Nvidia, and overclocking sections.

MSI P7N Diamond NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI 3-way brigde

3 Way SLI Connector Model 401-MB-0023-01
Hi there recently i received a package from your company with an motherboard MSI P7N
Diamond, nForce-780i SLI, i suddenly understood that there were not any kind of
3 Way SLI Connector! Therefore i am now asking how come there are none of this inside
your package and if i want to order a part! Where do i get it from? I asked EVGA they said
that they were chipping theirs sli bridges with their motherboard and said that is also what
your company do as well! So i ask you again how come there is no 3- way sli connector in
my package! Reason for this high priority is since i have 3 GTX 280 sli and i can't run 3
-way without this 3- way sli connector!
I live in Norway and i have been struggling with finding people who might be able to solve this problem for me!
So i would appreciate you and the company too have a look at this case and let me know if
its possible to get one from you! Without any money cost! And if it is possible to get one but
it will charge then, how much? Best regards From Halvor bø
Best regards From Halvor bø

Quote from: HU16E on 22-January-09, 11:42:33
Your board should have come with three SLI cables. Two short & one long to comprise the 3-way SLI bridge cables. Installation & full description can be found on pages 2-22 & 2-23 of your owners manual.

XFI Xtreme Gamer New Old Prob

Hi guys first off an apology as this is going to be a long ass post
Right i have a problem with my XFI card which i know is not a new problem, but for me it is first off a bit of background..
My old machine which was as follows:
DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR-Expert
AMD 64 3700+/4200+ X2
2 GIG OCZ Platinum EL DDR 3200
2 X 7600GT in SLI
XFI Xtreme Gamer (both old and new version)
with the old version (no heatsink) big card i couldnt get anything to work couldnt get drivers to install and sometimes couldnt even boot to windows. after plenty of arsing about with drivers bios update and bios settings i got fed up with it and like a muppet i bought another Xtreme gamer (new one with heatsink), and to be fair everything worked like a dream, i have read over these forums multiple times and basically read the main problem with these cards was when paired up with a NF4 motherboard so even tho i was annoyed at having a dud card which no body wanted to claim responcibility for, i was quietly content with the fact i had a working XFI card on a NF4 board. All was great the sound was excellent with my speakers and fatalty headset, games like bf242 FEAR etc sounded better than they ever had before.
Then i came into some money and decided for a big pc overhaul which was as follows
ASUS M3A32-MVP-Deluxe
AMD64 6400+
4 GIG Corsair XMS TwinX 6400
Nvidia 8800GT
I decided as it had worked so well up to now and the fact id had it less than a year, i kept the same XFI card
Got everything setup and installed latest drivers bios and everything, then i hit a problem. ANY GAME that claims to take advantage of the XFI etc has crackling problems. in bf242 when artillery goes off anywhere near me the crackling is INSANE. explosions in FEAR result in INSANE crackling. now this new board i use is a QUAD crossfire board socket AM2+ etc all the latest stuff and yet still this crackling problem persists 2 YEARS+ after the card came out.
now i have gone thru so many posts on so many forums and absolutly EVERYTHING i have tried has done NOTHING to resolve my problem.
CAN ANYONE HELP ME? CREATIVE IM LOOKING IN YOUR DIRECTION...
your company has had alot of money out of me in the last few years so some help would be appreciated.
so many of your customers have gone to other companies for soundcards since the XFI appeared and i will be one of them if i cannot get a result here. what annoys me is WE the CONSUMER pay YOUR wages, without us you will not exist so PLEASE HELP ME HERE. as i will no longer tollerate this. i think its pretty simple fix this long standing problem or A:give us our money back or B:replace this defunct piece of hardware with something that WORKS. ist not much to ask.
before anyone tries to blame my board as the problem i know people with just about every chipset going that has had problems with these cards its all over the forums. i have also tried a SB0220 5. li've and a audigy card in this exact machine with NO PROBLEMS at all. so clearly there is a problem with the XFI?
ANY IDEAS WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED but i would like to hear from someone from creative here as user input is getting me (and probably alot of other people) NOWHERE
LEE ?

just wanted to let you know how to solve this or any other problem with this XFI or any other creative card?
do what i did?
TAKE IT OUT YOUR PC AND USE SOMETHING ELSE?
as soon as i did this and wnent to onboard sound maX HD audio all my problems went aways?
that was my last creative sound card thats for sure?
anyways Auzentec have got some nice cards?

Xtreme Gamer is "not Supported by the Application" Problem. He

My SoundBlaster XFi Xtreme Gamer has suddenly stopping being detected by my creative software, such as Volume Panel. The drivers are installed, and when I hover my mouse pointer over the volume panel is still shows "SB X-Fi Audo [E000]" which is the sound card, but when I doubled click to open the volume panel it says that "The current selected audio device is not supported by the application. Do you want to select another audio device now?". When I click "Yes", it doesn't show anything on list besides "Windows Default Audio". This happened out of no wheres, with no changes at all to my computer. Volume Panel was working yesterday, but when I woke up today it wasn't. I have no idea what could be causing this, or what caused it... I did update the drivers about a week ago, but it was all working fine since, until today.
I haven't installed or uninstalled anything since it was working properly.
I tried reinstalling drivers and software, and it did not fix anything. I also uninstalled everything including drivers from computer, and used my original installation CD to install everything over again. Every installed fine, but then for some reason it would not install the drivers. Windows was detecting the device, but when I went to install the hardware manually, it would ask for CD to find some files to install... it said this twice, I located the files it needed, and each time it would complete the process it would instantly reboot computer without notice. When the computer was booted up, it would ask then ask again for the Creative CD to install the detected hardware. So I for awhile I could not install the drivers, but for some reason out of no wheres it finally installed when I used the update installation file I downloaded from Creative.com, even though I had tried the same thing a few times, it for some reason installed drivers. But now it is all installed again, my software seems imcomplete and will still not work with the sound device. What seems to be the problem here? Only thing I can think of now is the installation for some reason became corrupted. Only way I can think of fixing it is reformatting my whole computer, but as of right now I don't feel like spending a whole day doing so.
Is there anything that you can think of to fix this problem? I have had the sound card for about a year now. As of right now, I am still using headphones in the soundcard, but it doesn't sound good at all as I can't change anything in software. I also noticed that is no longer has as much installed as it would if I used my original CD. It doesn't have an option to switch sound modes anymore. It also doesn't now have "X-Fi Soundblaster" in "Add/Remove Programs" list. All it has in Add/Remove is "Creative Audo Console".
I uninstalled everything I could and deleted left over files in the Creative directory, so I deleted the whole folder after.
Only other thing I can think of is something in the registery is messed up, and causing the sound card not to be recognized. I also have WinXP SP2.

I spent yet another hour or two trying to fix it, and nothing changed.
I put it into a different PCI slot, and made no difference.
PCI slot doesn't seem to be the problem, I am thinking it is something within the registry itself.
I also put in the CD and there was no option to remove drivers, so I just went ahead and tried overwriting them, but that actually made things worse. My computer kept rebooting over and over when it hit the Windows Boot Up logo, and had to go into safe mode and do a system restore to get it back to normal.
It also keeps asking for the CD when windows loads and it detects the soundcard.
It will ask to locate acouple files, I do what it it says, but just as it is finishing installing the drivers it reboots the system.... when windows is loaded again, it will ask the same thing over, and will keep giving same results.
There isn't anything to completely remove all the creative files and folders including the 00's of registry keys. Maybe Driver Sweeper or Driver Cleaner Pro might help? ill try them, but as of now im not bothering with the soundcard.... ill just reformat. I just hope it ain't the card itself, because I am a month over the one year warranty, and the azzholes from creative said there was nothing they can do about it.
That alone made me want to turn to a different brand next time with better support. Creative has some of the worst support I know of.
They tend to leave people hanging with their defecti've hardware. What I don't get is, that the card still installs the drivers at times, and it will still work but the software won't.
I have been using it this whole time, but seems to freeze up my Guildwars alot.
It still sounds good, way better than Onboard, just not as good as before because there were no options for change mode, or couldn't access the equalizer.
Anyone know of any programs that will completely remove everything for the Xtreme Gamer Creative Software? Including everything in registry.
Also, is it possible that there might be a Windows Service that might have an effect on the problem? I tried enabling a few things, then try rebootin and reinstalling, but didn't seem to help.
But then again, I am not sure which services would cause the problem.
Definately something happened with the last Creative Driver update, only took a week afterwards for something to go wrong.

Replace Audigy 4 with Xtreme Gamer or Xtreme Audi

Currently using the Audigy 4 (non-pro) with remote.
(Logitech 5300E 5. speakers)Thinking of replacing?Audigy 4?with the Xtreme Audio for 56.00 (retail)
or the Xtreme Gamer $60.8 (retail)
I'm sure I'll should go for the Xtreme Gamer.
I play RTS games, watch DVD movies and play mp3s on my computer
Will I notice any difference over my Audigy 4?
Will the?Creative USB IR Recei'ver/remote that came with my Audigy 4 work with the
Xtreme Gamer?Message Edited by Tacoboy on 02-07-200703:4 PM
Message Edited by Tacoboy on 02-07-200703:43 PM

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