huh? actually you want multichannel during music listening or what? if the song is stereo, the sound come out only stereo even if you set to 5.1 speaker system in the console....

and i guess the console launcher you use is very old school adi, please click HERE to download latest version...

elaborate more on problem faced, don't just blame it without further elaboration... maybe i can help, because i'm xtrememusic too...

is up to you, no fine or not fine issue..

i set stereo when music playback, multichannel when watch surround movie....

DIY RCA connector? lol .....just buy the 3.5mm stereo to stereo RCA, and connect the white/left channel to coaxial input of your receiver is done adi....

you can't use it at the same time...the SPDIF and microphone share the same pinout...

but i admitted that Creative save cost for the extra connector, quite bad...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Oct 3 2008, 12:13 AM

Format your PC la...

read carefully what he said, the dealer retested and the card work....

For sound quality, no...

You should go buy the new one, why bother to buy the used unit? The new one from shop need RM380+-, and the new one from garage sales only RM150...damn cheap, don't expect someone sell used unit lower than this price...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Oct 4 2008, 11:25 PM

just because you not discover the dark side yet...

anyway got problem just post here, i willing to help...

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Added on October 28, 2008, 1:28 ambut Creative improved a lot on X-FI recently,at least they revised the driver few times adi... if you are the user before year 2008 and you are gamer, you will mad....

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Oct 28 2008, 01:28 AM

power consumption is not your concern, don't worry...

anyway, if you said Creative gaming suck in Vista, then i don't think got others solution better than it...

for the game which support EAX, yes, huge difference....

Auzentech XFI Prelude used the Creative driver as well, so it needs alchemy in Vista gaming as well....but for SQ, Auzentech XFI Prelude will beat Creative X-FI since the former used a better opamps and DAC...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Oct 29 2008, 01:04 AM

irrelevant? are you going to say the EAX standard will die out soon?

they do not support EAX based on two reasons.
1. Most of the gamer still using onboard sound.
2. The game developer not capable to produce the EAX sound game...

Why you need to bother the card is EAX capable or not? even Asus marketing their sound card with EAX...The Creative EAX lead from others from EAX4.0 and EAX5.0, and the game just simply can't catch up with this standard...just think as ATI GC DirectX10.1 support, who care the 10.1 standard got any title support or not, at least the standard is ahead now...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Oct 29 2008, 01:23 AM

Yap, i heard a lot of problem regarding to the game before....but i have to say i didn't encounter a single problem in my game....i play BattleField 2 2142 which support X-Fi EAX in Ultra setting, no problenm at all....i play Colin Mcrae Rally: DiRT, no siingle problem at all....and they said encounter problem in Race Driver:GriD when hardware acceleration enable, i play and no problem at all....

from the hardware compatible issue, i used the problematic Nforce4 Chipset mobo before, no problem at all, now just put on my P965 chipset mobo, still can't find any problem yet....

i'm very satisfied with the performance so far....Maybe i'm too lucky, who knows...

Anyway, for me sound is important in gaming...

XtremeMusic....

Thats why if you can find a lot of cheap Creative X-Fi in GarageSales and can give a reasonable sound quality and performance, and you satisfied with it, why need to bother the Auzen X-FI....they are a lot of good thing in this world, the only problem is whether we afford those stuffs or not, rite?

Forget to mention, all my gaming are in XP, not Vista...my rig don't have enough juice to run game in Vista.... maybe it will give problem in Vista, who cares...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Oct 29 2008, 02:08 AM

worth like hell....anyway, this card only sold RM230 before, you are late...anyway RM280 still a good price....

no...that one is long time ago...at here also and the seller is the same...his supplier price not fix....maybe you wait for the luck...

i want to make it clear that chipset = Mobo chipset, not graphic card 'chipset' OK?

Well, if you like, you can go to find all sort of problem faced by others before you buy anything....but the outcome is you won't buy anything successful...

Anyway, what i get it from the official Creative forum is the main problem is caused by Nvidia Mobo chipset, believe it or not, up to you...

why i need to defensive? i'm not Craetive's spoken men, my Creative forum account being banned at that DanielK scandal as well...you want or not Creative sound card not my business, just because you ask then i answer...

Just shared my experience to help sound card newbie make his decision, as i said maybe i'm too lucky, no problem so far, and i used Nvidia GC as well...

This post has been edited by coolkwc: Oct 29 2008, 08:25 PM