Game stuttering using Creative X-Fi on Vista

[Ishbane]

Never had any problems playing KotOR 2 using XP or Vista, but since i bought and installed a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Gamer the game skips every second or so, resulting in a BSoD after a few minutes. This came as quite a shock to me, as I haven't experienced one of those since I set up Vista for the first time (about half a year ago).

 

My sytem's otherwise stable.

 

X-Fi and Alchemy have been auto-updated, nvidia display driver is v178.13.

 

 

DXDiag excerpt:

 

System Information

Time of this report: 10/9/2008, 16:21:09

Machine name: NIMROD

Operating System: Windows Vista

[Dark_Raven]

Does it effect any other games that you have? I heard that Vista doesn't play well with Creative's X-FI drivers

[Gorth]

 

I am running a X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion on my system (64bit Vista) with no problems. Kotor2 runs fine. Disclaimer: I haven't updated my drivers the last couple of weeks.

 

I'll check the driver version when I get home from work later today.

[Gorth]

The promised comparison:

 

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System Information

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Time of this report: 10/10/2008, 21:12:59

Machine name: ILLIOS

Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate (6.0, Build 6001) Service Pack 1 (6001.vistasp1_gdr.080425-1930)

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: System manufacturer

System Model: P5E3 Premium

BIOS: BIOS Date: 06/11/08 11:07:24 Ver: 08.00.12

Processor: Intel

[Ishbane]

@Dark Raven:

Nope, everything from new games (Crysis, CoD4, The Witcher) to old ones (VtM: Bloodlines, Oblivion, Doom 3) works perfectly fine. Except BioShock, but it's been f'ed XP, too.

 

@Gorth:

No new update for me, neither on their support page, nor through auto-updating.

Guess your's is higher because of you using a X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty while I have to make do with an 'ordinary' X-Fi XtremeGamer.

There are beta drivers available though, released on 9/26/2008, but as they are beta - and since my X-Fi has been the only source for a BSoD as of yet - I tend to refrain from using them.