Sound crackling with X-Fi Xtreme Music - Page 3

Deadfast · 07-16-2008, 05:33 PM

I have (or should I say had) a Soudblaster Audigy SE from a friend.

Exactly the same issues with the older drivers.
After installing newer ones my FPS decreased by up to 50% with most of my games.

Creative states on their forums that these issues are supposed to appear only with Soundblaster and nForce 4.

Quote from the same thread from a user:

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WOOT Creative passing the buck yet again:

Chipsets known to have issue with the crackling and popping to the PC Community:

Nforce 3
Nforce 4
Nforce 5
Radeon Xpress 3200
Intel I955
All VIA chipsets from the KT400 and up

Chipsets Creative believes are effected:

Nforce 4

I give creative two thumbs way up for this one, time to replace your support staff.

Creative sucks, the next sound card I'm gonna buy will be an Asus one...

carlsjohnson · 07-17-2008, 12:06 AM

Download this modded driver YouP-PAX youp|pax|YouP-PAX|PAX A4|PAX Fi - PC Audio Drivers & Application Mods - (Youp_Pax-X-FI-OS-Driver-V4.10) Enjoy! X-FI Cards Only! - powered by Discuz!

It got rid of the crackling for me and even improved audio quality over what it was before it started crackling. Here's the filefront link Youp_Pax-X-FIOSDriver-V410.rar - FileFront.com Youp_Pax-X-FIOSDriver-V410.rar - FileFront.com

Agent_mOe · 07-22-2008, 03:58 PM

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I installed the new OpenAl, copied, renamed the dll file and placed it in the BF2 folder. Started up BF2, reset Video settings, and reset Audio settings, and voila, It says my sound hardware is incompatible with these settings. So basically it screwed up all my audio in BF2 ?

Any solutions, before I just rename the dll back to the old one?

I got the solution to the above mentioned. You just copied and renamed the wrong file. You have to take system32\wrap_oal.dll. I consider you took the openal.dll and put it into bf2 folder. happend to me yesterday aswell

Johny_B_Nasty · 07-28-2008, 09:54 AM

Many thanks to everybody here for making the efforts contributing here.

I didn't reply to you guys, not for impolitness but I was touring around for my holidays.

I'll comment here as soon as I catch up.

Johny_B_Nasty · 07-28-2008, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by carlsjohnson

Download this modded driver YouP-PAX youp|pax|YouP-PAX|PAX A4|PAX Fi - PC Audio Drivers & Application Mods - (Youp_Pax-X-FI-OS-Driver-V4.10) Enjoy! X-FI Cards Only! - powered by Discuz!

It got rid of the crackling for me and even improved audio quality over what it was before it started crackling. Here's the filefront link Youp_Pax-X-FIOSDriver-V410.rar - FileFront.com Youp_Pax-X-FIOSDriver-V410.rar - FileFront.com

That's really interesting; before proceeding with de/installations, please can you answer me the following questions:

1. Do I need to completelly uninstall Creative's drivers?
2. With the YouPax driver, will I have the settings menu (the Console) as was before with the original Creative driver?

Johny_B_Nasty · 07-28-2008, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by [R-PUB]MrD

After cleaning all drivers out, install latest drivers, then latest OpenAL independently.

Think I'm going to give it a try.

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Originally Posted by [R-PUB]MrD

If you are still seeing problems then try another pci slot for the card in case of wierd conflict problems on your mobo.

BTW. You did turn off onboard sound in your motherboards BIOS didn't you? Remove onboard sound drivers too.

Nothing of this sort really helps.

As for mobo sound chip, sure, it is switched off.

Johny_B_Nasty · 07-28-2008, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Ironcomatose

This is why i hate PCs, the tech is there for you to have an awesome machine but something ALWAYS goes wrong. Sometimes i feel its not worth it

EXACTLY what I'm thinking, too. Add to this hours and hours of your commitment and nerves...

Johny_B_Nasty · 07-28-2008, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by jOHNNYdOUBE

There was something on the creative site in the driver section details about a problem with 4 gigs and the extreme music.

I know about that, the two recent driver releases (one being beta) supposedly deal with this issue. However, I (as well as others) was experiencing SPC also with less than 4GB.

And yes, I'm using the latest drivers.

However, using an older video card driver might also be worthwhile... Hmmm

Johny_B_Nasty · 07-28-2008, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by SnipingCoward

i have another suggestion: your PSU is not powerful enough - with this system i would go with at least 500W from what i read - how many Watt does your PSU supply

also: your ram might be broken, have you tried already to only use the new sticks?

(probably only applies if you live in a country which uses AC as current)
a totally different thing: do you have this effect on headphones too? if not you could try to plug the speakers into a different branch of your power grid (ie: connect to the kitchen with an extension cord) (reason: all the stuff (ie psu of the pc) connected to the electricity grid, where the speakers are connected to, induces a distortion)

That's an interesting point as well. Assuming that the issue is hardware related, power supply could be worth sorting out. However, in my case I have a 500 Watts PSU (Tagan, should be a good one) in use.

As for RAM, this surely has a large impact. Namely, once I OCed my old rig and I immidiately experienced SPC. When setting back clock times, SPC was gone.

I also read in one of the threads (I put links to) that RAM access for the sound card is also critical for propper functioning.

I'm mildly OCing my RAM in order to optimize the system - related to this sound card issue.

Johny_B_Nasty · 08-06-2008, 05:59 AM

I found a kind of fix for the problem.

1.) I lowered my graphic settings; now not everything is at maximum, instead I lowered anti-aliasing from 8x to 4x.

However, this mainly solved the problem of random CTD but not SPC.

2.) By default my latency setting for the sound card is about 64 (to be done with Latency Tool, eg). If SPC starts during the game, after 15 minutes latest, I raise the lateny value by 8 or 16.
This usually puts things right for some time. When I experience SPC again, I raise the lateny value. And so on.

While this isn't really a state of the art solution, it at least remedys the SPC thing.

07-17-2008, 12:06 AM	#22
carlsjohnson Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1	Re: Sound crackling with X-Fi Xtreme Music Download this modded driver YouP-PAX youp\|pax\|YouP-PAX\|PAX A4\|PAX Fi - PC Audio Drivers & Application Mods - (Youp_Pax-X-FI-OS-Driver-V4.10) Enjoy! X-FI Cards Only! - powered by Discuz! It got rid of the crackling for me and even improved audio quality over what it was before it started crackling. Here's the filefront link Youp_Pax-X-FIOSDriver-V410.rar - FileFront.com Youp_Pax-X-FIOSDriver-V410.rar - FileFront.com
carlsjohnson Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 1

07-28-2008, 09:54 AM	#24
Johny_B_Nasty Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Wacko Posts: 54	Re: Sound crackling with X-Fi Xtreme Music Many thanks to everybody here for making the efforts contributing here. I didn't reply to you guys, not for impolitness but I was touring around for my holidays. I'll comment here as soon as I catch up.

08-06-2008, 05:59 AM	#30
Johny_B_Nasty Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Wacko Posts: 54	Re: Sound crackling with X-Fi Xtreme Music I found a kind of fix for the problem. 1.) I lowered my graphic settings; now not everything is at maximum, instead I lowered anti-aliasing from 8x to 4x. However, this mainly solved the problem of random CTD but not SPC. 2.) By default my latency setting for the sound card is about 64 (to be done with Latency Tool, eg). If SPC starts during the game, after 15 minutes latest, I raise the lateny value by 8 or 16. This usually puts things right for some time. When I experience SPC again, I raise the lateny value. And so on. While this isn't really a state of the art solution, it at least remedys the SPC thing.

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