i think i have told ppl before....wait i find my old post here...

EDIT: here you are...

in order to uninstall the driver completely, use the exe file from your CD, the path is <drive>:\Audio\drivers\setup.exe....double click it and select as shown , this should uninstall well, no need to use any other 3rd party uninstaller/registry cleaner as many users done, overkill adi...at least i used this method many times adi and it work well to me...

i didn't uninstall the driver by using device manager/add remove, i did once when i get this card for first time, so i know the pain of it.....

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Aug 20 2008, 09:56 AM

Sound Quality, ElitePro>>XtremeMusic (because Elitepro use better DAC and opamp)
Price, ElitePro>>>>>XtremeMusic (because Creative is suck)
Component Quality ElitePro==XtremeMusic (they are both crap)

Creative unbelievable released the new Creative Console Launcher yesterday in only a month from previous one...download from HERE

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Aug 28 2008, 09:10 PM

why bother the third party driver when the official driver can do same job....

You got a lot of trouble on Creative software installation, seems like is your problem rather than Creative problem, i didn't face any problem on it....

Redirect bass? Just direct all the bass from it cut off point to the subwoofer and the satellite just produced the mid and high sound....without this full range sound will feed into the midrange(depends your speaker crossover design)...

Lack of bass maybe due to your speaker placement and setting, not enough bass?just adjust the bass knob at your speaker or use EQ in Creative Console to boost the bass, as easy as that....

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Sep 5 2008, 10:22 PM

Latest Official driver..

The main purpose of alternative driver is to unlocked the Dolby/DTS feature which this before locked by Creative and not to make the sound better in Music listening...but now Creative adi unlocked those features in their official driver....you know sometimes ppl will add their own comment on the driver that actually not special such as the sound quality of alternative driver better than official driver.

using Audio creation Mode during music playback, set Master sampling to 96khz, enable the bit-matched playback, then you can get the highest quality you you want...

while gaming just use game mode and you can turn on CMSS-3D/Crystalizer/Bass boost as you desired...

Check your connection carefully first, then try at another com...if the problem still there, baru go to RMA...

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Added on September 12, 2008, 2:41 pmif your movie already Multichannel sound, CMSS-3D won't make any difference if you enable it...try it, i tried before, useless one...CMSS-3D working good in games...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Sep 12 2008, 02:41 PM

men, my English quite bad, can't understand the sentence that without comma and full stop, what means by
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Anyway, have you try at another PC?

Game mode enable the CMSS-3D in default, check on it...

for the X-FI, when you install the driver, it will have 'click' sound...

The latest driver is the full driver, no such issue at all...

Still the same, try your card at another computer before you RMA...

In your case, go for RMA...

only minimal effect...disable it rather than use it...

no, you are not the only one who feel that...i feel that as well....even the RMAA test show me the sound in Vista < XP.....

I don't have those driver problem since my first use of this card...maybe your Vista installed something that was incompatible with your X-FI driver...

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Added on September 14, 2008, 2:44 pmAlternative meant Daniel_K modded driver/Youpax driver...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Sep 14 2008, 02:44 PM

then mah delete manually lo, what so difficult since you adi know where its located...

men, just refer HERE...same question asked by others before..

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Added on September 18, 2008, 8:43 pmWhat point you convert from MP3 to wave? IT WON'T ENHANCE THE SQ AT ALL

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Sep 18 2008, 08:43 PM

no, this is optical fibre cable, u need creative front panel which consist of optical port, and this front panel is not included in XtremeMusic....the back of the card is coaxial cable...

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Added on September 27, 2008, 11:23 amread here....briefing about that page: you need to purchase Dolby Digital Live for $4.72(US) to do multichannel digital encoding...otherwise the same thing will happen to all X-FI users...

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Added on September 27, 2008, 11:26 amyou mean what 'effect'? Audio Creation mode can provide most accurate sound among three modes (need to enable bit matched-playback)....use entertainment mode if you watch surround movie only, music>Audio Creation mode, game>of course game mode...

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Added on September 27, 2008, 11:27 amare you sure your speaker work perfectly?

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Sep 27 2008, 11:27 AM

1. Nope, so far it never happen...

2.yap, AC3 = Dolby digital...try open that windows as you opened when movie playback, the 6 input levels bar should have some movement if 5.1 surround sound is playback....if no indicator at all, reinstall and try again...

3. uninstall the driver and Console Launcher completely before reinstall new one....use Entertainment mode when you want to watch surround movie..In Vista, sometimes the X-FI was access by another program in background, when you try to change mode, you will saw that message...

4. nothing you need to adjust if you are using 6 channel direct, i think no effect on analog input (correct me if i'm wrong)...or you can ask at Logitech z-XXXX series thread...

5. if you want to output optical signal to the speaker, tick the 'use SPDIF' at AC3filter there, without this, the card won't output surround/multichannel sound through digital/optical terminal....

Once again, X-FI in Vista is more problematic in XP, so good luck to you...Anyway i'm using X-FI in XP, no problem and work perfectly...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Sep 27 2008, 04:19 PM