CR6 0 Posted May 17, 2006 I've heard several complaints about this, good to see they found the reason why: http://theinquirer.net/?article=31780 Apparently, all of those that exhibited the symptoms were high-spec gaming systems. Isolating them has taken a bit of time mostly because although they all seemed be based on NForce4 chipsets, they didn’t have much else in common. The firm is set to release an official statement on the whole problem, which will tip up here. "We have found that with certain high-end systems and configurations, Sound Blaster X-Fi is being held off from receiving data from the PCI bus for significant periods of time, in some cases for close to two-thirds of a millisecond. This causes our audio buffers to underflow, which produces crackling sounds," he said. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
calius 0 Posted May 17, 2006 This is a complete mirror of Audigy cards & VIA chipsets back in 2003 .. very similar, with crackling and popping. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Colin 0 Posted May 22, 2006 Good info bro keep us posted, they have not touched there drivers for a long while either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CR6 0 Posted June 17, 2006 Here's an excellent update about fixes for this problem: http://xfi.blogspot.com/2006/06/soundblast...ckling-and.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firefly2442 0 Posted June 17, 2006 I had issues with crackling with my Audigy 2 and saw on the forums that a ton of people were having the same issue a while back so I bought a Turtlebeach. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Colin 0 Posted June 17, 2006 thanks for the update, now we need some stable drivers for Vista Beta 2 on 64 bit lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Papa6 88 Posted June 18, 2006 i get the popping with my audigy 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ROCO*AFZ* 0 Posted June 20, 2006 I have an audigy but i know some of you have an x-fi so here is the article and driver http://xfi.blogspot.com/2006/06/soundblast...ckling-and.html Topics Merged. Colin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LT.INSTG8R 0 Posted June 20, 2006 Yeah I get the popping in domination with my Audigy2 ZS but I dont expect any more drivers for it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites