Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality Championship Series Crackle/static/pop

[a4paper]

Hi guys...new to this windows 7 forum
When i play songs on my itunes using my Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality sound card...
i keep hearing Crackle/static/popping sounds whenever i run pgrms on my comp

basically what i faced is almost somewhat similar to this member's problem
http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/22369-realtek-windows-7-64rtm-crackle-static-popping.html

i seriously need help here cause i heard windows 7 is good and upgraded
windows xp never gave me this problem just the front control panel issue
now that the front control panel issue is solved...this problem crops up and its kinda driving me crazy.

anyone out there to help or guide me along? cause i only have basic knowledge about computers and stuffs

THANKS !

 

[thefabe]

Welcome to Seven Forums.
If we could get you to please fill-in all your system specs here



If you need help finding them you can use ine if theseprograms to help

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Once we have all this information we'll know more about your system and possible suggestions to try. I will however tell you that your not the only one having trouble with the XFI Fata1ty cards.

You can also scroll down on any page you post a problem on and see other simular problems and suggestions.
Fabe

 

[sygnus21]

what drivers are you using for with the card?

Any yeah system specs would help a lot.

 

[WDAexodus]

Might want to see what drivers you are using and update them. I know there were some issues with older creative drivers when Windows 7 came out. I was having cracking and pops with older drivers and since the latest updates haven't had any issues.

 

[a4paper]

Welcome to Seven Forums.
If we could get you to please fill-in all your system specs here

View attachment 137896

If you need help finding them you can use ine if theseprograms to help

Speccy |MG| Speccy 1.08.218 Download

HWiNFO32 3.67v |MG| HWiNFO32 3.67 Download

Once we have all this information we'll know more about your system and possible suggestions to try. I will however tell you that your not the only one having trouble with the XFI Fata1ty cards.

You can also scroll down on any page you post a problem on and see other simular problems and suggestions.
Fabe

updated my system specs already ^^

 

[a4paper]

what drivers are you using for with the card?

Any yeah system specs would help a lot.

my Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatality Championship Series is currently now on the latest drivier 2.17.0008

 

[fireberd]

Do you have a wireless connection? Wireless cards have been known to cause this, as have many other potential problems including your sound card drivers. I do not have a wireless connection and had an Xfi Fatal1ty installed in my Win 7 64 bit system and no crackling or popping (I changed to a different card as the Xfi was interferring with my Sonar recording studio program and nothing to do with popping or crackling).

If you look through the forum you will see many posts on the popping and crackling as users with all types of sound cards/integrated audio have had problems.

Another issue is the video card's drivers - update them to the latest too.

 

[a4paper]

Do you have a wireless connection? Wireless cards have been known to cause this, as have many other potential problems including your sound card drivers. I do not have a wireless connection and had an Xfi Fatal1ty installed in my Win 7 64 bit system and no crackling or popping (I changed to a different card as the Xfi was interferring with my Sonar recording studio program and nothing to do with popping or crackling).

If you look through the forum you will see many posts on the popping and crackling as users with all types of sound cards/integrated audio have had problems.

Another issue is the video card's drivers - update them to the latest too.

i dont have a wireless connection, its a desktop connected via cable to my router
and my video card is updated to the latest driver...still the problem persists

 

[fireberd]

Run the free DPC Latency checker, it MAY help you identify where or what the problem is.

I asked about the wireless as a lot of users are now using desktops with wireless connections and some new desktops are even coming with a wireless adapter as standard or optional.

 

[a4paper]

Run the free DPC Latency checker, it MAY help you identify where or what the problem is.

I asked about the wireless as a lot of users are now using desktops with wireless connections and some new desktops are even coming with a wireless adapter as standard or optional.

i've downloaded the dpc latency checker... but i dont know how to check what the problem is

 

[fireberd]

What readings are you getting with the DPC Latency checker and do you get any "high" spikes?
Does it tell you your system is OK?

 

[fireberd]

This is what I get on my Desktop with the DPC Latency Checker (no browser or e-mail program open).

 

[society misfit]

This is what I get on my Desktop with the DPC Latency Checker (no browser or e-mail program open).

Don't mean to jack this thread but how did you get such low Latency? Great little tool!

 

[fireberd]

I have an HT Omega Striker 7.1 audio card. I also have this PC optimized for Sonar recording studio software. I only have minimal startup programs, including Microsoft Security Essentials, and they were all that was running when I took the snapshot, I had closed my browser and e-mail before running the Latency checker.

 

[a4paper]

What readings are you getting with the DPC Latency checker and do you get any "high" spikes?
Does it tell you your system is OK?

errr this is what i get from the checker
i dont know how to tell if my system is okay...but when i try to start my itunes...it starts shooting red bars

 

[fireberd]

When you start a program or a running program accesses something, that can make a "spike" in the Latency.

I notice it does state that there are devices that could cause Latency issues. As I noted originally, there are many potential things that can cause pops, crackles, etc and you have to try one thing at a time to see if it helps or eliminates it.

 

[Colonel Travis]

I have this card and had the same problems until I downloaded Daniel K's drivers. Also made some EQ adjustments. Everything sounds great.

 

[a4paper]

I have this card and had the same problems until I downloaded Daniel K's drivers. Also made some EQ adjustments. Everything sounds great.

i already downloaded and installed daniel's drivers...dont work

 

[a4paper]

When you start a program or a running program accesses something, that can make a "spike" in the Latency.

I notice it does state that there are devices that could cause Latency issues. As I noted originally, there are many potential things that can cause pops, crackles, etc and you have to try one thing at a time to see if it helps or eliminates it.

try one thing at a time? how do i go about doing that??

 

[a4paper]

could it be that my 2gb ram is not enough?