X-fi xtrememusic showing up as emulated (plus annoying hissing with music and gam

Question

My x-fi has recently started to exhibit an annoying hissing while playing music (though strangely not with WMP) and in games. I usually use foobar 2000 for music, and I can escape the hissing with the kernel streaming plugin. As kernel streaming works I'm led to believe that it's not a hardware problem, but I'm not sure that it's driver related because my integrated audio produces the same hissing. Both show up as "emulated" in dxdiag and in foobar's output devices selection window. The only recent hardware-related thing I have done is remove a modem driver (it was physically removed long ago) because the modem kept showing up as a sound device in foobar (noted as "emulated" ).
This is what foobar shows me (the dedicated sound device is my x-fi): http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/596/emulatedxfidm5.png
Thanks to anyone who can help me out.

Answer 1

Uninstalling and cleaning then reinstalling the drivers did nothing. It still shows up as emulated and I still get the audio issues. Disabling audio acceleration does nothing either.
After scouring these forums, I came across this post that seems to mirror what I have done: http://forums.creative.com/creativel....id=2607#M2607
I removed a modem a long time ago to free up pci slots, but the driver never got uninstalled until last Wednesday, which is when this problem started.... I'll see if I can find the modem and hope for the best.
YES!!!!! Reinstalling the modem and settling its hardware acceleration to full fixed everything!
Sound Devices
??? Description: SB X-Fi Audio [9C00]
?Default Sound Playback: Yes
?Default Voice Playback: Yes
??? Hardware ID: PCI\VEN_02&DEV_0005&SUBSYS_00202&REV_00
?? Manufacturer ID:
?? Product ID: 00
??? Type: WDM
??? Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys
?? Driver Version: 5.2.000.44 (English)
?? Driver Attributes: Final Retail
??? WHQL Logo'd: Yes
?? Date and Size: 0/29/2005 04:6:23, 439680 bytes
??? Other Files:
?? Driver Provider: Creative
?? HW Accel Level: Full
??? Cap Flags: 0xF5F
? Min/Max Sample Rate: , 92000
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 28, 26
?Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 28, 26
??? HW Memory: 0
? Voice Management: Yes
?EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: Yes, Yes
? I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
??? Registry: OK
?? Sound Test Result: Not run
??? Description: Modem # Line Playback (emulated)
?Default Sound Playback: No
?Default Voice Playback: No
??? Hardware ID:
?? Manufacturer ID:
?? Product ID: 8
??? Type: Emulated
??? Driver Name:
?? Driver Version:
?? Driver Attributes:
??? WHQL Logo'd:
?? Date and Size:
??? Other Files:
?? Driver Provider:
?? HW Accel Level: Full
??? Cap Flags: 0x0
? Min/Max Sample Rate: 0, 0
Static/Strm HW Mix Bufs: 0, 0
?Static/Strm HW 3D Bufs: 0, 0
??? HW Memory: 0
? Voice Management: No
?EAX(tm) 2.0 Listen/Src: No, No
? I3DL2(tm) Listen/Src: No, No
Sensaura(tm) ZoomFX(tm): No
??? Registry: OK
?? Sound Test Result: Not run
?Thanks so much for your help franpa.
Message Edited by majorid on -5-2008 02:7 PM