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[SoLoR]

Good work SoLoR. So EAX and what not is all good??

yes only thing i dont like is the fact that this drivers are basically a year old.. but oh well... if its working...

[Alien Grey]

yes only thing i dont like is the fact that this drivers are basically a year old.. but oh well... if its working...

It doesn't matter it's a lot better than those official drivers.


Everything is working in the control panel and that's a big improvement in sound control you've got with these drivers.

[leo27]

Actually SoLoR the drivers i'm currently using are 6585's which where the newest when i installed win7, so it's actually an update for me

[Alien Grey]

Actually SoLoR the drivers i'm currently using are 6585's which where the newest when i installed win7, so it's actually an update for me

I had some problems too. You can't always download them. That's why I use Dropbox to share my stuff. I's easy and you can manage your files that you share from your own computer.

[Spyrus]

Test them after work and report back ... good work SoLoR

[Spyrus]

OK thing is, there seems to be some issues with those drivers... i wonder if they work properly with 1989B chip at all.... Anyway i updated pack here. Whats new is, drivers (i did minor modification on Software package as well, but they are so minor you dont need to download it). I took a bit older beta drivers and now everything is working perfectly (tested).

You dont need to reinstall package/licenses, what you should do to install new drivers is. Remove drivers in Add/Remove programs, reboot, wait that "default" drivers install, then go to System32/SYSWoW64 and remove MC* files that drivers left behind, there should be 4 or 5 files in system32 and 1 in syswow64, all have same date 17th september i think. Now install new drivers (1.SoundMAX.Integrated.Digital.HD.Audio.v6.10.02.6 590.X-Fi.CUSTOM.1) and reboot and everything should work now

edit: just remembered, reinstall (remove and then install) software package as well, because i rememeberd that in old version i forgot to change one HWID for 64bit windows.

Cannot download it now...

[Alien Grey]

in my case it looks like i have to rise the CPU-Voltage with the new Bios for one nodge. from 1.281v to 1.287v in Bios for 4.05Ghz, with tREF 13000T. You are lucky to use 16120T, but with 13000T i have simular or a little higher troughput than you have.

Fixed it.

EVEREST gives me +/- 9930 MB/s with Windows 7 Ultimate X64.

[SoLoR]

Cannot download it now...

here is alternative link.

[Spyrus]

Ok installed and working as expected ... good work

[leo27]

I've tested the eq and crystaliser and they both work as expected

[DaLiu]

here is alternative link.

My NOD32 found some virus inside the pack.

[Spyrus]

Yes, no harm, just disable antivirus while running the .bat file

[Trust13]

Fixed it.

EVEREST gives me +/- 9930 MB/s with Windows 7 Ultimate X64.

Nice!
I played a little with my 4.2Ghz setting (9*467MHz) and found a stable setting with memory at 1171MHz, PL 7 and Twister at Moderate. But it needs higher voltages for VTT (1,24v) and vNB 1.46v (1.47v Bios).
Have you any luck with your memory at 1200+ MHz? I had a run with 9x470Mhz, Memory at 1254Mhz, but it was not able to pass 512k in Prime95, no matter what i changed...

[SoLoR]

Managed to get 6600 soundmax drivers to work! It only took extra 2 days and solution was simple at the end... :> ill upload them tomorrow, unless i manage to get 6610 drivers working...

[Alien Grey]

Nice!
I played a little with my 4.2Ghz setting (9*467MHz) and found a stable setting with memory at 1171MHz, PL 7 and Twister at Moderate. But it needs higher voltages for VTT (1,24v) and vNB 1.46v (1.47v Bios).
Have you any luck with your memory at 1200+ MHz? I had a run with 9x470Mhz, Memory at 1254Mhz, but it was not able to pass 512k in Prime95, no matter what i changed...

I didn't have the time yet to try it. I'm to busy with the software installation in Windows 7 Ultimate X64. I'll give it a try once I'm done and have a good backup.

Managed to get 6600 soundmax drivers to work! It only took extra 2 days and solution was simple at the end... :> ill upload them tomorrow, unless i manage to get 6610 drivers working...

Great an other fine release of Mod SoundMAX drivers.

[leo27]

There is one problem i have found and that is that there is no Game mode avaliable, this mode enables the use of eax effects for gaming. The reason i say this is that ALchemy is supposed to be used in game mode to restore eax effects on directsound games in vista and win7.

For an X-Fi, you have to remember to turn your X-Fi to Game Mode before playing a game so that the game can apply it's own EAX, rather than whatever it is you've set it to in the (non-Game-Mode) control panel. (EAX4/5 is not enabled unless you're in Game Mode)

Once in game mode, change your game's audio settings to use EAX. Not all games have such an option. Here's a list of EAX HD (that usually means EAX 4 or 5) games:
http://www.soundblaster.com/eax/gaming/gamelist.asp

Would someone be able to verify EAX is working at present?? If it isn't there may be a problem

[Alien Grey]

There is one problem i have found and that is that there is no Game mode avaliable, this mode enables the use of eax effects for gaming. The reason i say this is that ALchemy is supposed to be used in game mode to restore eax effects on directsound games in vista and win7.


Would someone be able to verify EAX is working at present?? If it isn't there may be a problem

You're right. EAX is only working in Entertainment mode. There's no switch for Game mode in the control panel.

It could be that this isn't unlocked with the drivers or that the sound card doesn't support it.

[SoLoR]

If you look in the Creative audio CP avilable "mode" is only "Audio Settings" (in restore defaults you see on real x-fi modes avilable). Only creative console shows "entrataiment mode" and i assume that is bug anyway... i simply think X-Fi Software only offers one "mode" for HDAUDIO cards. How alchemy acts i dont know, i dont have any EAX game atm.

[Alien Grey]

Unreal Tournament 2004 is a game that takes advantage of EAX sound. I'll give it a try later.


I'm currently checking my HDD's for bad clusters. It's the last thing I've got to do to find out if it was a wise decision to install Windows 7 Ultimate X64 and all my drivers and software at 4.05GHz and DDR 1199MHz with tRD 6 and tREF 16120T.

[SoLoR]

here are 6600 drivers. You need to uninstall 6590 (do not upgrade!), reboot, apply this registry patch and then you can install 6600. 6590 drivers leave mess behind so that registry cleanup is needed or x-fi effects wont work.

edit: and here is RapidShare mirror with everything in.

[Alien Grey]

Are these better than 6590? Something different, fixed or added?

You're saying to clean the registry. Is a registry cleaner enough or do you have to use the registry patch?

[SoLoR]

Well i just made "custom.3" what is different is, i had slight poping with old driver (every once in a while), seems to be fine with this new one. Also in custom 3 i removed soundmax service that runs at boot and is useful only if you are using soundmax control panel (and we dont use that, since we have creative one), so you save like 2mb of memory and one less crappy service that is runing

clean up registry i just meant that you need to run that registry patch that i provided it removes like 4/6 keys (depends on windows). And ofc people that didnt install 6590 drivers before dont need to do that.

[Alien Grey]

Hmm... Do I have to remove everything?


What I did was remove the 6590 driver. Reboot. Run the registry patch. Install the 6600 driver.

Like this I lost a few options in the Creative control panel.

[SoLoR]

Hmm... Do I have to remove everything?
Like this I lost a few options in the Creative control panel.

khm... that registry patch suppose to fix that not sure why it doesnt... maybe try v2, you will need to reinstall drivers after... if even this do not work revert back to old drivers and install 6600 on next fresh instalation. Thing is 6590 are bit messed up, this was also the reason i didnt give up with fixing new drivers when i got 6590 working...

oh ye and also you might try to manualy erase ctapo*.dll in system32/syswow64 and daisywrp.dll.

6590 installs some creative registry settings "manualy" when 6600 do everything as creative intended

[Alien Grey]

What is V2?


Removing the 6600 driver and completely removing the Creative software did the trick. I also cleaned the registry with CCleaner and TuneUp Utilities before installing the driver and the software again. The licence was still good and everything seems to be working again.

After the installation of the driver and the software I cleaned it again and TuneUp Utilities finds a lot of stuff that can be removed from the registry.


Unreal Tournament 2004 uses OpenAl and the sound is very good.

Thanks a lot SoLoR.