Fixed Popping/Crackling on X-Fi Titanium Fatality Pro

For those having problems and tried all the IRQ fixes+ unofficial drivers but failed..
You might want to use this DPC latency tool
http://www.thesycon.de/deu/latency_check.shtml
You can read how to use it from the website.
Anyways, I isolated my problem down to my gigabyte motherboard EasyTune software [used it for fan control]. Audio is working fine now.

Re: Fixed Popping/Crackling on X-Fi Titanium Fatality Pro That spikes (they are rear but they do occur)?im geting is during playing World of Warcraft. So when all components are under (some) load. Doing this tests when you dont do anything seems kinda pointless And ye if you dont notice any issues you shouldnt worry about dpc spikes/latency anyway. This was more like and experiment, when i saw people complaining and i notice on nvidia forums that "dpc fixes just missed 96.75 drver release", so i went and check it out what the hell this actualy is. So also people that are runing nvidia cards and have sound issues, update to latest nvidia driver (97.x+) it might resolve your issues. Also as far as i know occesional spikes are to be expected, whats bad is, when you constant latency is high (over 500ms). This shows as unusual fps drops and/or sound crackling. I personaly suspect that lots of problems about this is actualy caused by something else and not creative driver/card. Known "bad" drivers are lots of times also network drivers, so people should keep updated those as well...

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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=588245&tstart=30
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Using X-Fi Titanium Fatality soundcard and latest beta driver. But then I need change working mode (from Game to Audio Creation or Audio Creation to Game) it's cause system freeze. And only hard reset helps. No errors message or error logs in system.
This problem appear only if I played any games in Game mode and after want listen music in Audio mode. If don't play any games or listen music, you can change modes multiple times without problem.
I try clean Windows 7 installation and problem is still here.
Attached log information from Creative System Information.
My computer configuration - http://systemprofile.net/p/1/Kuja
Attached Files
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Called CL support. No popping/crackling issue with XFI kno

yeah.. after a post by Catherina i decided to post this to make sure you guys see it. If CL closes/deletes this thread they simply acknowledge that they dont want you to know the truth.
i called CL support yesterday around 4ish, and i asked if they got an update on the crackling/popping issue. the reply was "there is no case with popping/crackling issue with XFI that is known". i called again so that i speak with someone else to see if it was the case that only off them was unaware of the situation and got same reply.
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Z3RO-CooL,
I'm not sure what you hope to achieve by starting this thread and essentially calling us liars. Customer Support have to troubleshoot a problem if someone contacts them. They won't have any new info for you yet. Others may contact Support with similar symptoms but resolve them by doing some of the troubleshooting mentioned.
Everything I have told you here is true, we are investigating this and as soon as I have some information for you I will be posting it here.
I'm closing this thread, not to silence you or because I "don't want you to know the truth", but because this thread was only started to cause an argument and I don't see any constructi've discussion coming from this. Please use the other thread to discuss this particular topic (crackling).
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Has anyone been able to play STALKER using Creative's new X-Fi Titanium Fatalty Pro?
Since installing that sound card I have not been able to get the game to work. It starts to load and then stops responding before it even has a chance to go full screen. The XR-3DA.exe process keeps running, using about half my CPU, but just doesn't do anything it just sits there.
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I've updated every driver on my machine, I've cleared the sound card drivers, reinstalled the card, reinstalled the game, disabled onboard sound.
Is there anyone out there who has experienced a similar problem or knows of a means of fixing it's I freakin love this game, and I want to play it with an EAX enabled sound card.
Cheers!

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2. Find your log file.
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I remember my old Audigy 2 was a pain in the ass, I should have my head examined for even considering Creative again.
Oh well. I hear ASUS is good. I'm just sorry I wasted my time with this piece of crap.

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best of luck with whatever you choose... creative is F'n many of us using Win7....

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, I got the same problem with my Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatalty Pro Series. I did the same as zippz (I installed the new drivers first then the new launcher. I did a complete wipe of the old stuff both in leftover folders and files and in the reg)
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Poll: Who is having no sound issues with X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro?

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i have an open ticket with creative support and need to find out if others are having the same issue on windows 7. Several folks having the same issue at this link with little to no success at fixing. I don't know if this is a driver thing, an IRC conflict or what. I have no had this issue on the same hardware with any other sound cards I've I had, to include an HT Omega card and the onboard sound; which leaves me convinced it is something with the X-fi card.
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