I know some of you had experienced this
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I know some of you had experienced this
Almost every time I play my PC games, I get this “crackling” or “popping” noise. It’s not so noticeable in the beginning but soon the noise just gets worse and worse and eventually the game becomes unplayable.
Googling on this topic suggested that it’s a pretty darn common problem and there were handful of possible remedies from switching the PCI slots, downloading the latest audio drivers, updating the BIO, etc etc. But it seems Creative still hasn’t provided the definite solutions to this. FWIW, they seem to claim that the cause of this problem is the “buffering” of the sound signals that are supposed to be in synch with the graphics and they found this problem is most common in PC’s with NVidia graphics cards and ASUS motherboards and I have both LOL.
Anyways, one of the possible remedy was reducing the in-game volume level. They claimed that excessive in-game volume can, at times, “overload” the sound processing (oh, come on man, srsly?) and it seems to work (just tried it yesterday). I’ve already tried witching PCI slot, and updating BIO of my mobo. One other interesting suggestion was running the RAM in dual channel mode. I’d like to try that if/when this noise reappears. Only problem is, I think my memory is actually Tri-channel (Corsair DDR3), does this mean that I shouldn’t bother with this solution? Anyone with the same problem? What was your solution?
Googling on this topic suggested that it’s a pretty darn common problem and there were handful of possible remedies from switching the PCI slots, downloading the latest audio drivers, updating the BIO, etc etc. But it seems Creative still hasn’t provided the definite solutions to this. FWIW, they seem to claim that the cause of this problem is the “buffering” of the sound signals that are supposed to be in synch with the graphics and they found this problem is most common in PC’s with NVidia graphics cards and ASUS motherboards and I have both LOL.
Anyways, one of the possible remedy was reducing the in-game volume level. They claimed that excessive in-game volume can, at times, “overload” the sound processing (oh, come on man, srsly?) and it seems to work (just tried it yesterday). I’ve already tried witching PCI slot, and updating BIO of my mobo. One other interesting suggestion was running the RAM in dual channel mode. I’d like to try that if/when this noise reappears. Only problem is, I think my memory is actually Tri-channel (Corsair DDR3), does this mean that I shouldn’t bother with this solution? Anyone with the same problem? What was your solution?
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computer and tech forum would be a better place for this...
What mobo are you running? Chipset?
Tried the nHancer fix?
Something to try anyway 
What mobo are you running? Chipset?
Tried the nHancer fix?
A third party tool called "nHancer" (www.nhancer.com) has been found to make it possible to mitigate this problem by retuning the graphics driver. We recommend setting the AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering) mode in nHancer to reduce the maximum interrupt deferral times (called DPC) to the 10-25 millisecond range. This problem is not unique to X-Fi, it causes crackling/distortion with a number of other audio products we have tested.
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Motherboard: ASUS P6T Intel X58 Chipset
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX285
CPU: Intel i7 920 @2.67GHz
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer 24-BIT PCI Sound Card
OS: Vista 64-bit
I haven't tried nHancer because it sounded like it's one of those program that you have to download "uninstaller" just to uninstall it once I'm done with it...I hate those. But I might just have to do that if this thing keeps making these noise.
Some people are just giving up using X-Fi (that they purchased extra money for) and started to use the default sound processors that came with their PCs, which they claim does not make the noise. That's kind of sad though.
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GTX285
CPU: Intel i7 920 @2.67GHz
Sound Card: Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer 24-BIT PCI Sound Card
OS: Vista 64-bit
I haven't tried nHancer because it sounded like it's one of those program that you have to download "uninstaller" just to uninstall it once I'm done with it...I hate those. But I might just have to do that if this thing keeps making these noise.
Some people are just giving up using X-Fi (that they purchased extra money for) and started to use the default sound processors that came with their PCs, which they claim does not make the noise. That's kind of sad though.
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