X-fi xtreme music sound blas

i lost my software installation C.D. can anyone help me im in desperate need i cant get any work done

The drivers work but all the software you get with the card will not. That's what I hate about Vista. You're telling me that I pay all this money for a kick-butt sound card and graphics card, but I can't use the software that comes with them. Microsoft will tell you it's because Vista is a whole new operating system but that's a crock. It still runs on DOS, just like XP, 2000, '98, and all the others. Funny how Microsoft Office 2003, and Microsoft Small Business will work on Vista, but Quickbooks 2005, or anything else that doesn't say "For Vista" on it (no matter how recent)?will not.

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  • Poor X-FI Xtreme Music sound quality due to speake

    I purchased a X-FI Xtreme music the other day, poped her in, and she sounded beautiful. That is until a couple days ago, when some songs I play having static sound (games run alot better now, because I was running a SB Li've! 24 BIt, it used alot of CPU). The main reason I love this card so much is because of the lightened load on my CPU, and because games sound so much better now. Problem is some of my music sounds like it has static fuzz in it, where other songs sound perfectly normal. Im wondering if it is my sound card, my speakers (I have TomMade 2. speakers, have had em for about 8 months, so they are getting old, cost me about 80 bucks Canadian when I got them) or the song file itself (because some songs sound normal, or perhaps the instruments are just so loud I cant hear the static). I dont know if it might be my speakers because they are old. And as for wonderng if its the sound file itself, the one song I hear it big time on is a quiet song at the start, but with some instrumental, and I hear static big time. Other songs are louder, and I dont know if i can hear the static or not. Coming from my SB LIve! 24 Bit, games sound better on my X-Fi, but I have to say that songs probably sound better on my SB Li've!. I didnt really notice alot of static on my old card, but maybe I just wasnt paying attention. Is there anyway I can be sure of what the problem is?
    Another question but off topic, with my old card's software, I could change my output to 96 Hz. With the new software I can change digital output to 96, but Im not running digital speakers, I have analog (im guessing thats the SPDIF input settings under audio console) but if I go there, the SPDIF box is greyed out saying default. Perhaps the sound quality is lessened because the card thinks Im running digital?

    96khz output is in thx console on the tab speaker selection and the heading "digital output sampling frequency" if you don't have then somethings gone wrong somewhere.
    I can assure you though having 96 khz output will not make any difference to your sound its more likely that you have the other problem or static sound as you put it, that has not been fixed yet, this is what is likely to be degrading your sound not the digital output bit-rate. In fact in some cases setting it higher results in more static.
    The static you get sounds like you have the the classic pops and crackles with the creative range of sound cards this has been going on for years, try reading the link I posted in my other post there are litterly thousands in the same boat as yourself.

  • Xtreme music sound c

    I'm using Xtreme Music card. My problem is that whenever I adjust the volume on the master wave I get a message saying "Microsoft Mixer settings are not Normalized. Values in DB will not be accurate. Do you wish to correct this." As soon as I click yes to correct it, the wav volume defaults to full volume. I'm confused, what does this normalization message mean?Thanks

    http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=25677

  • Xfi-Xtreme music: Sound stops/ high tone when connecting or disconnecting cab

    Hi,?For a

    Try opening creative console program and changing from 5. to 4. and then?back to 5.. I found it helps in reseting the sound card. Just keep the volume down for now until you are sure this even fixes that problem. It scared the living crap out of me when it happened to me. I hope this helps you, ?I'm trying to find out if rolling back the driver might help too. My Card is?( X-fi extreme music ) Right when they first came out. My problems started after updating driver. ?

  • X-Fi Xtreme Music sound going

    About 5 times a night my sound goes out in a series of clicks, pops, and beeps (lasts about 30 seconds and is very loud... I just have to mute my sound or I think my ears might start bleeding). After it's done clicking, I will lose sound for everything and a minute later the same clicking process happens again and I get sound back. When on Ventrilo, everything is played back to me all at once. Anyone have a similar problem or know how to fix it's PS: It usually happens when minimizing out of games, but happens while doing other stuff as well.
    edit: it's in gaming mode with 24 bit crystalizer and EAX enabledMessage Edited by SpAwNeD on 02-6-200607:06 PM

    Drivers are updated to the newest 5th November, 2005 (if you can even put new?with that date)?drivers.
    http://us.creative.com/support/downl....x=&Image4.y=4
    Thats what I have... any othe advice?
    Message Edited by SpAwNeD on 02-7-200608:45 AM

  • Xfi-Xtreme Music Problems after updating dri

    I recently updated my xtreme music sound card drivers from this website and since my music quality has not been the same. With my headphones off music seems sound poor and while watching movies the sound fades out to the point i cant even hear it. The only way i can fix this is by moving the graphic equalizer to the left or right and then i can hear it again. I also dont seem to get any sound out of my centre speaker but i do with the other 4 around my room. Ive tried reinstalling the new drivers and even the old ones and nothing works. Ive alo tried doing the clean boot and driver uninstallation but i get stuck at the point where i hide all microsoft services and click disable all. For some reason i cant click disable all when microsoft services is clicked. Ive run out of idea's. Any help would bhe appreciated.
    Im running windows xp and have never had any problems with sound untill now.
    Thanks in adance for any help.

    You need a cable that meets the HD audio spec. AC97 is not correct for that card. I've heard of some damage actually being done to some cards by using AC97 on a HD audio header connection. I've also never heard of a case front panel assembly not having the cable as part of it.
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  • X-fi Xtreme Music soundcard PROBLEM: Microphone volume too low(unusab

    Hello, I've spent a while?sifting through these forums and?can't find any solution to this problem. Many people have been asking this same question and?aren't getting any solutions. When I say the microphone is?too low, I mean it's at the lowest possible volume it could?run at,?so it's unusable and?might as well not be functioning at all. Keep in mind every volume setting on the computer has been set to max.
    Is their anyone?that?owns a X-fi xtreme music sound card?using a?microphone that does work?If so, what microphone are you using?I'm only?suggesting that theirs some odd settings with this card that only allow a certain kind of microphone to work with it. I'm using an old mic that works perfectly with my sb li've and that I've had for 3 years now. I'll echo the same basic details I've already checked over. They can be found in other customers' posts who are having this?same problem.) Microphone works - tested on other systems and other cards2) Microphone volume is on max - both in recording and playback (although playback is muted)3) Gain is enabled - Ticked +20dB box4) Drivers are current - tried shipped drivers, current stable, and beta release?Here are more links to this problem, which has not been solved yet:
    http://forums.creative.com/creativel...ssage.id=49623
    http://forums.creative.com/creativel...id=29980#M4984
    I?suspect no one?has?the answer to this problem?yet. But could someone please tell me if they are using this soundcard with a mic that is working. If so please tell me what microphone you are using.

    I don't know if this is the latest thread but it seems to be. Obviously this is a big prob for a lot of pee
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  • How to connect SB X-FI XTREME MUSIC with Creative Inspire 5.1 Digital 5

    Hi,
    I want to know what I have to do to connect my x-fi xtreme music with my creative inspire 5. digital 5700 due to listen music with all? 5 twiters. I have windows vista ultimate 32bits. Thanks!?JoanMessage Edited by joanantoni on 07-9-200703:54 AM

    With your Inspire 5. Digital 5700, your best bet is?using the analog Front and Rear input connections on the decoder and connect them to the X-Fi Xtreme Music front (Line Out )?and rear (Line?Out 2)?output connections and then enable CMSS Music or CMSS Movie Mode on your Digital 5700 decoder which will then give you a 4./5. Upmix. Gi'ven that you don't have a Center connection on the the Inspire 5. Digital 5700, no connection can made to the your Front Center satelite speaker/Subwoofer (Line Out 3) on your X-Fi Xtreme Music card. I'm led to understand that Creative speaker systems do not need Bass Redirection to reproduce proper Bass frequencies on your Subwoofer and not on your satelite speakers but you may want to test this simply enabling and disabling Bass Redirection, on your X-Fi Xtreme Music sound card, to your own personal taste. Alternately, you can concurrently connect your Inspire 5. Digital 5700 via the Coxial Digital/PCM Input to the FlexiJack input/output jack on the X-Fi Xtreme Music and then enable Digital I/O mode for the FlexiJack in the Audio Console found in the Windows Control Panel or?in the Entertainment Mode or Game Mode Consoles. Unfortunately the FlexiJack only provides a 2 conductor connection therefore it only supports 2. Speaker system connections?therefore you will still have to enable the CMSS Music or CMSS Movie Modes on your Inspire 5. Digital 5700 decoder to produce a 4./5. sound upmix. Sadly, no optical connection can be made between your Inspire 5. Digital 5700 and your X-Fi Xtreme Music sound card without the installation of the X-Fi I/O Dri've or X-Fi I/O Console at, of course, additional expense. From my standpoint, the X-Fi I/O Dri've is a good value given the number of external inputs and outputs in offers. Again, it's a matter of what your personal connection requirements are and budget. Hope this hel
    ps.

  • XFI Xtreme Music prob

    Ever since I installed the X-Fi Xtreme Music on my computer it likes to hang up occassionally when trying to open certain programs meaning that I will click on say Internet Explorer and it just sits there for 5-0 seconds before it opens. It did not do this before I installed the X-FI. Sometimes it will run games like Nascar Racing 2003 Season, sometimes it won't. I deleted all the drivers, software etc. for my old sound card and used Driver Cleaner Pro before I installed this card and the software. Does anyone have any suggestions?
    Specs:
    MSI - PT880 NEO MoboP4Kingston .5GB Mem.Windows XPSoundBlaster X-FI Xtreme Music Sound CardNVIDIA GeForce 6600 Graphics Card

    I can verify I have the same exact problem and have as yet been unable to fix it. I just updated X-FI drivers. It seems to hang much worse after playing D3D or OpenGL games. During the gaming it usually runs perfectly.
    I tried killing all of the (for lack of a better word) Garbage processes that Creative seems to think I want. This does absolutly nothing, save freeing a few megs of ram.
    I do notice DLLML.exe constantly uses around 2 ticks on the cpu scale of task manager (with no sound playing). This seems odd, as even video drivers usually use around 0. I would check to see if it got stuck around 00 when the computer decides to lock up, but the screen tends not to re-draw during the "locking up" time.
    here's some specs
    2.8 Ghz Pentium 4
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  • Creative XFI Xtreme Music & Nforce6 prob

    I recently upgraded my computer system from a MSI Nforce4 motherboard and a AMD-FX 55 processor to a Intel Quad core Q6600, and a MSI Nforce 6 650i P6N SLI Plantinum (or is it premium? i can't remember) Motherboard. After this change i started to get random system crashes. After many many many days of trouble shooting and formatting, i narrowed down the problem to my Creative XFI Xtreme music sound card. When my system crashes, the system will freeze with all but some sound glitches (if playing anything with sound at the time). Only way out is to reboot. No errors in the event logs indicated to me what could have been the problem.
    Even though i have updated all system drivers, Bios, formatted, even used the creative XFI Beta drivers the only thing that solves my system crashes is the removal of the xFI card itself from the system. (yes i have disabled onboard audio). So my question is, Does anyone have any experiences with the Generation XFI cards and a Nforce6 based motherboard that has had a issue like this? Or is it just a compatibility problem with the MSI P6N 650i SLI board itself? Could even be the card has gone bad, however these problems only started after changing hardware which leads me to beli've in a compatibility problem. Could it be the card needs a newer EPROM Chip?
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    Thank you everyone for your replys. To answer the Questions (Hope i get them all).
    . I was running WinXP Pro before, and currently Am still running WinXP Pro.
    2. I Did as well change PCI Slots with the same end result of the system freezes/crash.
    3. Toronto699, yes i have noticed the problem only goes away when the SOund card is removed, so at least i Now know i am not alone in this problem.
    I figured that nforce 5/6 must be a issue, although i know there are many people out there that are running XFI cards on these chipsets, it does appear from all of the complaint posts through-out this forum that the latest drivers are not up to speed with all of the newer motherboards/chipsets out there. Esp since it Did work fine on my Nforce4 board (which i know there was a bug Even with the XFI and nforce4 chipsets early on tho i never had any), and only after i changed over did the problem start happening, which lead me to beli've in a incompatibility issue.
    Even though i will probably never come accross a fix.. IF i do, i will be sure to post it.
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  • Problems setting up Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Music card with Logitech Z-5500 Speak

    I have searched a lot for information on this and I have been unable to find a solution to
    my problem. I recently purchased a new Dell PC with the following items: Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Music sound card and Logitech Z-5500 speakers. However, when I tried to connect the 3 analog wires from the central unit into my sound card, only one of them will work at a time. In other words, only one set of speakers will play anything. I am not sure what other options I have. Someone from Best Buy said I needed the box that comes with the Platinum version of X-fi Xtreme but I am not sure where I can order this from. Is it sold seperately anywhere? Clearly I am not going to order another of the same sound card and pay another $200 when the only thing I need is the box. Any suggestions on how to solve this dilemma would be extremely appreciated.

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  • Vista + Xtreme Music = no 5.1 sounds in Team Fortres

    Ok, finally took the plunge into Vista. All went well until I tried a few games. Main issue is that Team Fortress 2 now only plays sound from the centre channel - the other 4 speakers do not output any other sound. It's a clean install only 3 days ago, latest drivers for everything (as of 2 days ago), TF2 set to output to 5. speakers, Xtreme Music set to game mode with 5. speakers. No dice. Other sys specs:680i moboX-Fi XtremeMusic8800GTX680i SLI mobo2 x WD Raptor HD in RAID 0 mode2GB DDR800Logitech 5. speakers Any ideas

    It used to work, I think Valve broke it in their 0/3 update. This was on their list of fixes:
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    There is a workaround for now. Enter the console and execute the following commands:
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  • Creative Sound Blaster X-fi Xtreme Music prob

    I have Creative Sound Blaster X-fi Xtreme Music and i'm wondering how can I adjust the settings so I stop hearing myself in the microphone.
    Please answer me, thanks a lot!
    BladeCris

    It has when you are in "Audio Creation" mode and set speakers to 5.1 (or 7.1 if you use tripple plugs). You can route any input monitoring and stereo output to any output jacks, and even duplicate it to several jacks. Depending on your audio software you should also be able to route specific tracks to specific outputs (while in the creative console you define what plugs the output channels are send to).

  • Sound blaster X-fi xtreme music subwoofer crankling so

    i am having some problem with my sound blaster x-fi. when playing a song it is smooth suddenly there will be some crankling sound from my subwoofer. but when i reset my speakers it is fine but why the crankling sound occurs.
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    man....i think you must recheck the connecters from Soundcard and your speakers.A poor connect can make poor quality. In catalogue say the same thing.
    And can you help me answer this question:
    -I have this speaker,too.
    -And when i use it with an Audigy soundcard and in 'quad mode' of speaker then the problem happen : there is no bass at all with two rear speakers.And sadly to say,This mode is very useful for gamer. This problem is shouted too by many users and there is a solution for this ,a 'bassfix' file from Dell.But it didn't work for me.
    -Now,i want to buy a X-Fi extreme music,the same of you,but i can't not sure this problem finished or not.So can you check this for me?(Is Quad mode work OK with new sound card and the problem gone?)Please !!!!
    Thanks a lot

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    hi, i have a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music, plugged in to a Logitech X-530 speaker system. The problem i'm having its in the bass redirection controls in THX setup console... The crossover frequency works fine, but i can't control the subwoofer level, i tried it a few days ago and it worked, it was the first and last time it worked... any help?

    Hello, I know this is un related but I require your help. Im on the same setup as you but I have the next speakers up the X 540. However the sound card seems to be louder on the left than the right. Is this something to do with the Crossover you mentioned?
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