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I installed the 2.5.0006 drivers for my XFI Extreme Gamer because Creative Auto Update listed it as critical. After installing it, my max number of sound channels dropped from 28 channels?to 64 channels in Battlezone II. In Crysis, every once in a while, bullet collision sounds will be staticky too. Mainly the sound that plays when I shoot a person.
I even tried the beta drivers and they outright don't work in Battlezone II. I get the proper 28 max sound channels, but the same sound file fails to play more than once. So if I jump once, I get the jump sound. I jump a second, third, fourth, etc time and I get no sound. A given sound will only play once. On top of that, sounds won't play, but my audio channels will get eaten up resulting in total sound failure given enough time. The card doesn't let go of sound channels when not in use so it just eats up more and more sound channels.
Is anyone else having these problems? The stock Windows XP drivers worked just fine for this card so I'm going to roll back to them. It would be nice if a Critical driver update would work as expected.

This is absolutely true. Each new release of the XFI drivers have steadily gotten worse for me. Last night I removed all software and drivers, rebooted into safe mode and ran driver cleaner. Then booted back into normal and tried to install the 2005 CD drivers that shipped with the card. It says v5.2.2.43. 8/8/2005 under the driver tab in device manager.
I kept getting blue screen reboots during the driver reinstall and then again on bootup afterwards, so I discovered in safe mode that that in the driver folder on the CD, if you run the driver setup utilty manually instead of through the creative flash installer, there is an option to remove drivers. This cleans out more then then the add/remove programs uninstaller and driver cleaner combined! Because after i ran that and rebooted into normal, everything installed fine.
I am happy to report that with these CD drivers and software, I no longer have crackling during loud scenes of movies or games in all channels and my center channel now plays sound correctly from all sources. I believe as well that I wasnt getting as many channels of sound as i should have, which may have aided the crackling. So to anyone with issues like that, DOWNGRADE.

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