Soundblaster x-fi xtreme gamer soundcard.

hello, forgive my nooobness but this is my first time owning a comp.i have just bought a mesh comp(vista) with?the above card in it.i've installed the software on the cd and it doesnt work as you all know coz i've read the other posts.i've installed a driver dated 2006.....is there a more recent one that works and isnt a beta.....i've tried to find on the other posts but i must be blind or stupid(probably stupid as i can see my keyboard).any help would be greatfully appreciated and any slagging off accepted. thankyou all.

Have a look in the Windows Vista forum here at Creative. You can find it below this forum.
I think you'll be able to find what you're looking for there...

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Ok I fixed it.
Control Panel > Hardware sound > Sound >? Set "Speakers" as default > Properties > Levels > Unmute S/PDIF-In and Midi Synth
That is proof that most problems are caused by the one between the computerscreen and the chair. Makes me laugh, im sorry but it does. Or maybe I should just cry? Before you start ranting on a forum, make sure you havent missed something. Specially something as easy as this.

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yee i have checkt it didn't work my microphone is new and have test it on another computer it works fine think i got some bug with my new drivers do you or someone who reads this now where i can download the drivers before this newest update for soundblaster X-fi xtreme gamers?Message Edited by Sammen on 06-6-200708:07 AM

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so i picked up one of these off new egg and i love the sounds - its great. So why can i not get the mic to work? I have to plug it into the front of my computer to get it to work and even then sometimes it just ends up looping the sound then causes me to restart the computer to get rid of the squeel. I got re-installed it - reinstalled all programs, disabled/made soundblaster default, Ive done everything the online user guide says to to. My digital I/O Is shaded out in the option to choose if i were to use that hole, Why is it shaded out if the Card is equipped with it's I can get sound out of it but when i plug the MIC in - nothing. Also Why when i play games do i have to play with the MIC settings to get the mic to work? Also i've downloaded the NEW drivers with the auto update. Basically this is really annoying and i dont know if its worth even keeping the Soundblaster if all its going to be is problems, Sure this card sounds awesome - But my onboard sound never gave me ANY problems. Where is Creatives Response to this problem? Ive seen MANY posts on this forum about this MICROPHONE problem. When are new drivers comming out to fix this, are they comming out or am i going to have to return this thing? THank you.

Do not plug into the front panel, get a splitter. It isn't worth the headache I assure you.
I have no clue why but after unplugging EVERYTHING that was plugged into my pins which was just my Audio Out Front Port (Not the mic front port), it worked perfectly fine. I didn't even have to reconfigure. You may or may not have to go into your "Sound Properties", and find Recording Options and select the Microphone, and make sure you either have Mic Boost on, or the Volume of the Mic up.
Click on the little "sound control speaker" at the bottom of your start bar, you may have to double click it select "Options", then "Properties", select recording just Highlight one of the settings such as "microphone" make sure its checked. Then click "Ok" you should have gotten a window pop up that shows your microphone make sure you have a check in the "select" box under it.Message Edited by gulizard on 04-0-20072:52 AM

Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer PCI 7.1 driver problems

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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
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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

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However I have come across a very annoying problem. When running tests on the sound I find that there is no sound coming out of the front left speaker. All the other speakers are working fine. I tried swapping the speaker into a different position on the sub woofer and I get sound out of it so the speaker itself isn't faulty.
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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.
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I uninstalled everything I could and deleted left over files in the Creative directory, so I deleted the whole folder after.
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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.

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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!

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Hi there,
I have just built a brand new PC with a Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Soundcard.
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I have tried updating the drivers, installing alchemy and basicly everything I can possibly think of. This is the second card that has done this and I believe it to be a driver issue instead of hardware.
Is anyone else experiencing the same problem as me? Im getting sick of it now.
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Ok. After much toiling I found that my cable management was the problem. All wires that run electrical current through them create a magnetic field. When you get a bunch of them gathered together (especially the dual 8-pin power to the video card) they create a lot of interference with the wire for your front audio jacks and can also affect your rear inputs/outputs as well. If you separate these wires it should dull, if not eliminate, the buzz. There also can be issues with grounding your power and making sure that you run clean power into your system (most battery backups can accomplish this). I hope that this information is referenced by all of the people who have been dri'ven into insanity by the annoying, but subtle, buzz. Good luck!
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Hi,
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I just installed a new Xtreme Gamer X-FI, at first I had sound, after one song the sound stopped working, I re-booted, uninstalled and re-installed the latest drivers, nothing works. HELP. At one point a loud high pitched sound was coming from the speakers.

I have 4gb ram, I got the white noise problem. When I first installed it, I got white noise, didn't work when reinstalling drivers etc. I got a tip to move it to another PCI-slot, and it worked... Until I rebooted my computer. Same white noise again. Tried countless of times to reinstall drivers and so on. And yes, ofcourse I have the onboard soundcard inactivated.
Now today, I tried taking out 2gb of my 4gb ram, and guess what, it works.
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