Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer

[Guest General Nuisance]

Hello,

I thought ArmA had a problem with my GeForce GTX 295, but it turns out it's my Xtreme Gamer soundcard. I've googled around and noticed others with the same problem. Has any come across a solution? I have the mini-PCI soundcard but I'd obviously rather use the SB card.

[Yoma 0]

I have the same card, but no real issues?

(running VISTA X64, my driver version for the card is 6.0.1.1361)

Are you sure it's your soundcard?

Maybe there is some kind of incompatability between MB/soundcard.

Do you disable the other card and not install it's drivers when using the Xfi?

Also i don't use hardware acceleration in arma's options because that used to crash it from time to time on my pc.

Are you sure OpenAl is installed?

http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/oalinst.zip

Edited April 22, 2009 by Yoma

[Guest General Nuisance]

Hello Yoma "restart the application" ;),

It'a definitely my soundcard. I swapped out my 8800GTS cards with a GTX 295 in addition to swapping out my mini-PCI ASUS soundmax card for my X-Fi Xtreme Gamer card. If I add "-dsound" to the ArmA shortcut, the game runs albeit with jittery sound. I cannot disable EAX and Hardware sound in the audio options either. Now I used the X-Fi Xtreme Gamer card last year and it ran ArmA fine. Although I was clearly using different drivers, dated around March of 2008. However if I uninstall the drivers I have to perform a system restart. Then Vista automatically installs whatever drivers it finds on the system, which means I cannot install drivers of my choice. Do I need to boot Windows in safe mode and perform an install from there?

Thank you.