Bloodrage X-Fi stuck with Vista x64 and Games support X-Fi

[The-Fox]

Bloodrage X-Fi stuck with Vista X64 and Games support X-Fi.

Issue is at the title.
I installed the X-fi drivers, activated them with the Serial# and all.
I launched Battlefield 2, went to the setup, switched the audio to X-Fi and BAM ! it just freeze.
I thought, well, BF2 is an old (though still kick ass) game, lets try something newer, DiRT, and guess what, I didn't even got to the Game itself and it just freeze while loading.
so bottom line is, after trying some other games, is that every game which supports X-Fi freeze while trying to set it t use X-Fi card.

All of those games worked perfectly good before using the BR w/ X-Fi MB Sound card.

My setup is at the sig, using Vista x64 SP1, drivers are the ones came with the BR installation CD, haven't seen anything else out there.
And I use BIOS version G13, due to compatibility issue I have with my Perc 5/i card on newer versions.

Any Ideas ?

[zalbard]

Any Ideas ?

Maybe BF2 is looking for Creative X-Fi chip and you obviously don't have one, when you enable that setting.
Perhaps your drivers are outdated for the OS you're running?

[The-Fox]

I am talking on the X-Fi O/B Soundcard that comes with the Bloodrage, it is suppose to act the same AFAIK.
Again, the problem is not with BF-2, but all games supporting X-Fi Audio.

Regarding the drivers, I have seen only one set/version, the one comes with the CD, and that's it.

[Mescalamba]

Um.. I tried it without problems, but on x86.. I had P07 BIOS, not sure if it can change something.. but maybe can.. x64bit compatibility is a bi*ch sometimes..

Anyway.. it produce so bad sound, that I've put my old Audigy 2 into it.. I like my hearing and I like my Sennheiser headphones. And this "thing" is definetly not made for this.. buy some cheap PCIe soundcard.. it will do much better job.. or, if you are kinda ethusiast and gamer.. buy Auzentech X-Fi Forte .. both best audiophile and gaming soundcard.

I feel bad that you have this issues, but I think that if its not BIOS related, its Creative driver fault (as usually) and except some hacked drivers, there won't be much help..

[YMAA]

The X-Fi Sonar card is NOT a true X-Fi sound card. It's essentially a software codec on a daughtercard with an EMI shield that has access to X-Fi features like the Crystalizer. I'm not sure if this is the reason why your games are crashing, but you should know that card is not a true hardware X-Fi chipset.

Check around on Foxconn's website or perhaps even Creative's website for updated drivers - make sure they're for the X-Fi Sonar though.

[saaya]

yeh, check for new drivers, im sure this is a driver issue...
and yes, compared to other onboard sound this xifi software thing is pretty damn good, but its still onboard audio...
if you really care about perf and quality get a propper soundcard...

though with i7 doing the xifi effects in software shouldnt be a problem with all those 8 virtual cores sitting idle most of the time...
that was the idea of using software xifi...anyhow, check with creative and foxconn support, im sure its a creative problem but itll get resolved faster if foxconn who actually BOUGHT this from creative complains about it not working right compared to one or two end users.