Help with X-FI Fatal1ty.

wazandy · 9th November 2009, 2:53 PM

Bought one of these recently and it was working beautifully until I clean installed Windows 7.

Every piece of hardware is fine, but the creative driver can't seem to find 'any creative products' in my system.

Even the 'autoupdate' thing from creative fails to find it.

As such, I'm presumably using generic windows sound drivers, getting sound ok but the x-fi's still not coming up in device manager..

And idea what's going on?

Cheers guys.

SpudBoy · 9th November 2009, 2:57 PM

its creative.

get used to crap driver support.

wazandy · 9th November 2009, 2:58 PM

Yeah, I had problems in the past, but the latest driver apparently works with Windows 7.

Bastards.

SpudBoy · 9th November 2009, 3:00 PM

apparently is the key word here.

they 'might' make a working version (their vista drives are still beta ffs) eventually, but dont hold your breath.

Vampire · 9th November 2009, 3:42 PM

Ugh, no offence but people like SpudBoy should keep their mouths shut. Seriously offered nothing to the thread what so ever. The X-Fi Fatal1ty works fine with windows 7, running it right now with standard creative drivers and it works 100%, just installed it yesterday too.

I had a similar issue, windows wouldnt see the card. I took the card out and put it in a different PCI slot, and low and behold windows detected it without trouble. Once windows was able to see it, installing "SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0013.exe" worked perfectly. Then once the drivers were installed I ran "CSL_PCAPP_LB_2_61_09.exe" for the console launcher, which also worked fine.

wazandy · 9th November 2009, 3:50 PM

Thanks man. I'll give it a go tonight.

Lasmi · 9th November 2009, 3:51 PM

I didn't even have that much trouble vampire. Clean install of 64bit and was detected straight away so I cancelled that driver search. Ran both those packages and it works fine.

SpudBoy · 9th November 2009, 3:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vampire

Ugh, no offence but people like SpudBoy should keep their mouths shut. Seriously offered nothing to the thread what so ever. The X-Fi Fatal1ty works fine with windows 7, running it right now with standard creative drivers and it works 100%, just installed it yesterday too.

I had a similar issue, windows wouldnt see the card. I took the card out and put it in a different PCI slot, and low and behold windows detected it without trouble. Once windows was able to see it, installing "SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0013.exe" worked perfectly. Then once the drivers were installed I ran "CSL_PCAPP_LB_2_61_09.exe" for the console launcher, which also worked fine.

lol. byte me.

lets see how long your card continues to work.

the slot swap trick has been done to death. it isnt a permanent fix.
the same goes for any card based on the x-fi chipset (which surprisingly.. all use creative alchemy.............)

basically.. yes, you may get it working again. but it will break. and continue to break until creative get off their fat asses and fix the fucking problem with their piece of shit drivers.

Vampire · 9th November 2009, 4:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpudBoy

lol. byte me.

lets see how long your card continues to work.

the slot swap trick has been done to death. it isnt a permanent fix.
the same goes for any card based on the x-fi chipset (which surprisingly.. all use creative alchemy.............)

basically.. yes, you may get it working again. but it will break. and continue to break until creative get off their fat asses and fix the fucking problem with their piece of shit drivers.

"byte me" lol I see what you did there. You do have a point however, Creative are renowned for their terrible drivers, but my point is that it does work... dont just give up and wait for creative to release some 'good' drivers, because I certainly wouldnt hold my breath!

AEKaBeer · 9th November 2009, 5:15 PM

Fixed the same issue for my brother in law by uninstalling the default driver in windows and installed the lates driver from the creative site (and alchemy but that won't make a difference in this case). Restarted and fixed.

toolsncorpses · 9th November 2009, 8:10 PM

You have to download and install the drivers from Creative Worldwide Support. They work in Win7. The autoupdate doesn't work for me either

green_comet · 9th November 2009, 11:22 PM

I have never had one issue with my X-fi Fatality, it worked fine on vista, and has been fine in Windows 7 64bit for the past few months. Like others are saying use the drivers on their site.

http://support.creative.com/Products...CategoryID:209

Reanimated35 · 9th November 2009, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpudBoy

lol. byte me.

lets see how long your card continues to work.

the slot swap trick has been done to death. it isnt a permanent fix.
the same goes for any card based on the x-fi chipset (which surprisingly.. all use creative alchemy.............)

basically.. yes, you may get it working again. but it will break. and continue to break until creative get off their fat asses and fix the fucking problem with their piece of shit drivers.

i'm using an x-fi xtremegamer and win7 64bit. never had any problem using the card in the one pci slot on 32bit xp, xpSP2/3, 32bit vista, or the 64bit win7

dasuperham · 10th November 2009, 12:18 AM

some people i know have tried putting thier pci latency up for a little while in bios seem to fix all sorts of probs with x-fi pased chipsets. wonder if it would work for this?

thaFunkster · 10th November 2009, 6:45 AM

Dont know if this is just Win7 buuut...

I bought a new Xonar DX card. Put it in the only spare PCIE slot on the motherboard, and absolutely nothing at all showed up in Windows

Had to buy a new motherboard (with plenty of PCIE slots just incase) before it worked.

9th November 2009, 2:53 PM	#1
wazandy Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 423	Help with X-FI Fatal1ty. Bought one of these recently and it was working beautifully until I clean installed Windows 7. Every piece of hardware is fine, but the creative driver can't seem to find 'any creative products' in my system. Even the 'autoupdate' thing from creative fails to find it. As such, I'm presumably using generic windows sound drivers, getting sound ok but the x-fi's still not coming up in device manager.. And idea what's going on? Cheers guys.

9th November 2009, 3:42 PM	#5
Vampire Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Hawkesbury Posts: 751	Ugh, no offence but people like SpudBoy should keep their mouths shut. Seriously offered nothing to the thread what so ever. The X-Fi Fatal1ty works fine with windows 7, running it right now with standard creative drivers and it works 100%, just installed it yesterday too. I had a similar issue, windows wouldnt see the card. I took the card out and put it in a different PCI slot, and low and behold windows detected it without trouble. Once windows was able to see it, installing "SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0013.exe" worked perfectly. Then once the drivers were installed I ran "CSL_PCAPP_LB_2_61_09.exe" for the console launcher, which also worked fine. __________________ [Gaming] eVGA 790i Ultra SLI -=- E8500 @ 4.0ghz -=- 4Gb Patriot DDR3 1600MHz 7-7-7-20 -=- Sapphire HD5850 1GB -=- X-Fi Fatal1ty [FileServer] E6600 -=- 2GB DDR2-800 -=- 14TB HDD -=- CM Stacker 830 -=- Silverstone 850w [HTPC] E2200 -=- GA-73PVM-S2H -=- 2GB DDR2-800 -=- 500GB SATA2 -=- Leadtek DTV2000H w w w . c o d e b y t e . o r g

9th November 2009, 3:51 PM	#7
Lasmi Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Local Posts: 3,750	I didn't even have that much trouble vampire. Clean install of 64bit and was detected straight away so I cancelled that driver search. Ran both those packages and it works fine. __________________ Vircurex - E-currency exchange 10% discount link (.5% -> .45%) https://vircurex.com/welcome/index?referral_id=447-7029

9th November 2009, 5:15 PM	#10
AEKaBeer Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Essendon Posts: 3,254	Fixed the same issue for my brother in law by uninstalling the default driver in windows and installed the lates driver from the creative site (and alchemy but that won't make a difference in this case). Restarted and fixed. __________________ FX-8350 @4.4Ghz, 16GB RipJawX, ASUS 990FX SabreTooth R2, TR Silver Arrow, Gigabyte HD7970OC+GTX650(physx), U2410, AntecTitan, 120GB Vertex3, 240GB Crucial M4, Seagate1.5TB, X-fi HD, Silverstone 850w 720BE 1.8Ghz@1.0v, 8GB, Gigabyte 790GDS4H, lianli pc60, antec TP650, 640GB WD Black, 2x Seagate1.5TB, Hitachi 5K3000 3TB, Audigy2ZS

9th November 2009, 8:10 PM	#11
toolsncorpses Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 473	You have to download and install the drivers from Creative Worldwide Support. They work in Win7. The autoupdate doesn't work for me either __________________ Think for yourself and question authority.

9th November 2009, 2:58 PM	#3
wazandy Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 423	Yeah, I had problems in the past, but the latest driver apparently works with Windows 7. Bastards.

9th November 2009, 3:50 PM	#6
wazandy Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 423	Thanks man. I'll give it a go tonight.

9th November 2009, 11:22 PM	#12
green_comet Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Melbourne Posts: 216	I have never had one issue with my X-fi Fatality, it worked fine on vista, and has been fine in Windows 7 64bit for the past few months. Like others are saying use the drivers on their site. http://support.creative.com/Products...CategoryID:209 __________________ i7-950 @ 4.30Ghz, Asus P6X58D-E, 6gig 1600 Patriot Viper S7 , ATI 5970

10th November 2009, 12:18 AM	#14
dasuperham Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: AUS Posts: 57	some people i know have tried putting thier pci latency up for a little while in bios seem to fix all sorts of probs with x-fi pased chipsets. wonder if it would work for this? __________________ Intel 3770k OC to 4.6Ghz, Thermaltake bigwater A80, 16gb 2133 Gskill Ram ASrock Z77E-ITX, HIS 7970 3GB, Thermaltake Smart Power 550W, Fractal Design node 304 2x 240gb kingmax ssd in Raid 0 2x 1TB Samsung

10th November 2009, 6:45 AM	#15
thaFunkster Awaiting Email Confirmation Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 441	Dont know if this is just Win7 buuut... I bought a new Xonar DX card. Put it in the only spare PCIE slot on the motherboard, and absolutely nothing at all showed up in Windows Had to buy a new motherboard (with plenty of PCIE slots just incase) before it worked.