PR and Soundblaster X-Fi and Vista

[DarthDisco]

Hey, just wanted to see if anyone else had experienced this issue. I am running a Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Fatal1ty card with the latest Vista Drivers on a Vista 64 system with PR. PR plays and loads just fine, crashes happen but they are rare, however, I do have a recurring issue that bothers me.

Every time I load into a new game, as the load bar passes the 25% - 50% area I get a static/hissing/crackling noise through my soundcard, speakers, headphones. This only began when I went to Vista and I can only assume it has something to do with the Creative drivers.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, does anyone know how to correct the problem?

[Cascyth]

audio tends to crack when hdd is overloaded with tasks (map loading maybe) - try defragmenting it with Diskeeper - Maximizing computer performance and reliability automatically utilizing defrag (30d trial)

you might want to test your sound card if defragmenting won't work
Latest News. Audio Rightmark (not a stress test, but still worth a try)

you can try doing that test while moving huge files between two HDDs to simulate system overload; you can do that simple test with playing your fave music in any music player while moving big files
if sound/music start to crack, change your hdd to faster one

if that won't work - try asking at Creative forums

cheers

[SnipingCoward]

if it really is this problem you might want to check and reset the DMA mode to UDMA5
in device manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller double click primary ide channel/secondary ide channel - the tab advanced options - switch the transmission mode to PIO and then back to UDMA if available
current transmission mode should then change to something with UDMA 5

(prolly same for SATA devices?)