Crackaling Speakers

[Cannyone]

I have an X-Fi card as well. I'm running Vista 32bit. I never got any crackling until I enabled the CMSS and Crystalizer. I would recommend you check your Audio Console (in the Control Panel), and try disabling those two features. Hope that helps... But there are "known issues" with X-Fi cards.

It might also help to try moving the card to a different slot. This should begin with removing it from your device manager, then shut the system down, and pull the card. It might help to boot the system once without the card installed. This whole thing is to get Windows to assign that card a different IRQ and memory addresses. Creative Labs cards have a tradition of not co-operating with other hardware. But both Windows XP and Vista will put it on an IRQ that is being shared with other devices every time.

Last resort might be to change some settings in BIOS. Just try the other stuff first.

[solstring]

I have found out that the sound gets better after like 5-10 mins of gameing, its not perfect but its much better. Its like the pc needs to load up properly or something?? I have tried the on board sound card and have had no improvement in the sound quality. I can say with this in mind that it has nothing to do with creatives drivers or sound card as the problem is universal throughout the computer.

[Hppstr]

I know this is prolly a silly question, but do you have the on board sound disabled in the BIOS when you have the creative card installed?