Sound Issue

[Cyclic]

Hi

 

Every now and then when playing black shark thye sound will start to crackle and slowly get worse finaly losing all sound completely. I am using an XFi Creative card.

 

Has anyone had this problem and anyone know of a fix?

 

Thanks

[EtherealN]

This is probably where you would have the best odds of success with a thread like this:

http://forums.eagle.ru/forumdisplay.php?f=91

 

First of all, have you eliminated your speakers as a potential cause for the problem?

 

A quick run with the search function yielded these threads that might be interesting for you:

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=40333&highlight=XFi+Creative

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?p=646983&highlight=XFi+Creative#post646983

 

You could check out that Creative Alchemy thing as well.

[Druid_]

ALchemy only works for Windows Vista. Does Black Shark support DirectSound3D ? I'm not sure it does.

 

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/9994 makes for interesting reading. You might need a motherboard BIOS update.

 

http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowArticle.aspx?url=http://203.211.142.197:80/srvs/cgi-bin/webcgi.exe/,/?st=101,e=0000000000199626474,k=640,sxi=1,varset=ws:http://ae.creative.com,case=26162 try all of these from creatives own troubleshooting site.

 

Have you tried disabling the onboard sound off your motherboard in the BIOS? that would be my first port of call.

 

On control audio control panel make sure you have game mode selected. Also try turning off EAX Effects, X-Fi CMSS-3D and X-Fi crystalizer and enable them one at a time to see if any of those are tripping it. If you are using headphones then make sure in audio control panel that Äutomatically enable headphone settings' box is ticked.

 

If all else fails, take PC into back garden, pour over a litre of the cheapest vodka you can find and set light to it. Not wishing to waste energy, throw a few steaks and kebabs on it to celebrate finally being free of your sound problem. :)

 

Good Luck