Creative X-Fi Issue ?

If you have a Creative X-Fi Card, and particularly if you are having "Crackling" issues, you need to read this: http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&message.id=61926 Luckily I haven't had these issues. I have the $400 X-Fi elite Pro. Not sure if the extra memory this one has on-board helps with this or not. -Larry

"Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:9f2bg.29534$fG3.3275@dukeread09:

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> If you have a Creative X-Fi Card, and particularly if you are having > "Crackling" issues, you need to read this: > > http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundbla > ster&message.id=61926 > > Luckily I haven't had these issues. I have the $400 X-Fi elite Pro. > Not sure if the extra memory this one has on-board helps with this or > not. > > -Larry > > >

I have had several Creative cards right back to the soundblaster days. I think the only line I didn't go for was the LIVE cards...and I don't recall ever having cracking issues. But I do recall, especially with GPL, (and somewhat with the N4+ titles) Creative had users with crackling problems. It sounds like this will be an issue as long as Creative writes custom drivers that hog the pci bus. dh

A Creative card with crackling/driver issues? Gee, what a shock...

Yes, they all have haven't they? and it's all been down to PCI timings IIRC. Andi. "Steve Simpson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:446eaddb$[email hidden]... >A Creative card with crackling/driver issues? Gee, what a shock... > >