XFI - WORKING Windows 7 Drivers

[Neilsouth]

SB X-Fi Series Support Pack 1.0 (01/13/2009) - Sound Blaster - Creative Labs

 

[VegasDen]

http://www.sevenforums.com/drivers/2045-x-fi-5-1-driver-fix.html

 

[Neilsouth]

Soz , Didn't notice your dodgy thread title

Anyhoo Hope they fix the Xtreme Audio!

 

[r00o9huy]

THANKS!!! Now everything is working with my X-Fi Xtreme Music!!! It is definetly a must have in WIN 7

 

[penguin17]

My drivers seem to be working fine then after a couple of days all i get is hiss and crackle, hopefully this will solve it for good, Cheers.

 

[Neilsouth]

UPDATE

X-Fi Xtreme Audio / Audigy SE / LS / Live! 24-bit are out of luck, cause the driver has a serious issue with Vista 7 that only Creative can fix.

Im back to Vista 64 now anyway , i doubt creative are going to do anything atleast well into window 7's lifetime.

 

[spearman1ca]

Great link you posted there for us Neilsouth. I could not get my X-Fi Platinum PCI-E to work correctly no matter what I did.

Your link solved the issues - Thanks and Great Job!

 

[Neilsouth]

You're most welcome

 

[Noobmagnet]

My issue fixed

I believe my problem is fixed. I myself searched and poked around forever and i guess i played around with installs and uninstalls for a while. Here is what i did.

While ur doing all this be downloading the driver. This is what i used because i use Win 7 64 bit (yes i have 4gb mem and this is working because i have seen people with problems with 3+ gb's of mem).

Creative Worldwide Support

1. Uninstall all evidence of creative software (ie. audio console; thx config; dts pack; dolby digital pack; soundfont manager; and other misc stuff that that support pack installed which i tried out with SOME success) DO NOT RESTART Yet.

2. go to device manager through control panel or through right clicking computer in start menu AND uninstall the sound blaster card under "sound, video, and game controllers" and there should be an option to check "delete the driver software for this device" also; do that as well.

3. Now you can reboot

4. **important** right after reboot windows attempts to find the sound card and install the drivers from windows update. This appears as an icon next to ur clock in the bottom corner. click this icon and click the link or button that says to stop trying to get from windows update. This should leave the name of the card as "Multimedia Controller" or something universal like that in device manager. If in ur device manager it names the card as Creative SB X-FI then u failed lol. Just uninstall it and delete the driver in step 2 and try again.

5. Now with the sound card still named multimedia controller download the new driver creative has out for specificially windows 7/vista which was released in June 2009. install and run in admin and reboot after it's done and viola!

Everything should look as it did in XP like the console and what not and where it has ur flexiJack options it should have 2 options; one for digital and one for mic line in. (i used to not have this in other windows 7 driver attempts)

PS. I can add some picture steps if necessary cuz snipping tool is very cool .
PS. If the sound does go out just change the mode in audio console to something and back to what u had it on.

EDIT: Whatever i feel like g-quiting windows 7 sound. I spoke too soon the sound is already very unstable.... it worked for a while though.......

 

[simonfilth]

would it work with realtek as well?

 

[Noobmagnet]

would it work with realtek as well?

my realtek sound works perfectly almost and serves as my backup sound until we can figure out this sound blaster problem. I couldnt help u there sorry

 

[simonfilth]

but wait, do you have 5.1 system on realtek?

 

[Noobmagnet]

but wait, do you have 5.1 system on realtek?

yes i have the 7+1 realte (ALC888 i believe), but im only using one jack for headphones and i dont have a 5.1 system

 

[swarfega]

Creative have now released Windows seven drivers for the XFi-Audio!

32-bit and 64-bit: Creative Worldwide Support

 

[grimreaper]

Creative have now released Windows seven drivers for the XFi-Audio!

32-bit and 64-bit: Creative Worldwide Support

I was gonna start a new thread until i found this...
I wanted to tell everyone I installed XFTI_W7DRVBETA_US_2_17_0007.exe
30 Apr 09 for Windows 7 X64 driver 2.17.0007 on my Fatal1ty Pro series sound card with no problems

Supports:
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty® Champion Series
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio
Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

I now wonder if their console launcher would work on build 7600....mmmm

Ohh btw...if there's anyone who needs help connecting their SPDIF cable from the GPU to sound card via HDMI let me know

 

[jkewl999]

Product Not detected with 217007 drivers.

hi been trying for ages to get this driver to work but even teh daniel k support pack 2.0 doesnt detect the card (windows detects it but i dont want to use windows drivers.. also i need to know how to get hdmi audio through my x-fi titanium fatal1ty).. ps HOw did you install your drivers?.. also please let me know if any settings in bios relating to this card being detected.

THanks

PS Dont forget to tell me how to get the hdmi sorted.. specially if it will work work with windows drivers.. detected as HD Audio Controller and HD Audio Device

JK

 

[Arcalimon]

Nice will try that my doubt is:
As soon as i installed many packs and when i launched apps i often receveid ''No device for the application detected on the machine'' error message...

Will all this make the apps detect the card and sort all the issues???