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2008-04-27 20:10:50

#1

OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|6920|Washington DC

Has anyone struggled with the microphone ports with this card, and know how to correct them? First, the optical port in the back doesn't seem to want to recognize the microphone ... I'm using the front port, but I have to open the "Audio Creation Mode", and toggle the line-in / microphone settings to get it to turn on the microphone. Inconvenient, but it works ... I am wondering if there is a way to not have to do this toggling.

Headset is a Sennheiser.

And, yes I tried updating drivers. It didn't correct the problem, and added BSODs when switching between modes. So, I've regressed back to the drivers that came with the card.

2008-04-27 20:44:51

#2

Naturn: Deeds, not words.; +311|6877|Greenwood, IN

The X-Fi cards have been plagued with problems since day one. I have the very same problem as you but I can get my Mic to work. The other 2 ports don't work for me at all. I have no clue why not. I am also running the latest drivers on Vista. To be honest I am very close to scraping all my creative cards in favor of ASUS cards.

2008-04-27 20:54:47

#3

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6978|67.222.138.85

I recently got the card, without the front panel. The card wasn't even recognized with the drivers out of the box, so I would be very wary of those. The ones on the site worked for me, I assume you're on XP?

Did you go into the mixer on game mode and change the port from the optical to a microphone port? I'm pretty sure you have to select the right type or the mic won't pic up in windows.

2008-04-27 21:34:36

#4

OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|6920|Washington DC

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
Did you go into the mixer on game mode and change the port from the optical to a microphone port? I'm pretty sure you have to select the right type or the mic won't pic up in windows.

The FlexiJack radio buttons are not selectable ... grayed out.

2008-04-27 21:54:54

#5

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6978|67.222.138.85

https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g44/Flaming_Maniac/untitled-1.jpg

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2008-04-27 22:02:01

#6

jsnipy: ...; +3,277|6793|...

this is what i see ...

https://img233.imageshack.us/img233/605/53655877xw6.png

and use "Line2/Mic2" (its always in game mode)

Last edited by jsnipy (2008-04-27 22:02:36)

2008-04-27 22:34:59

#7

OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|6920|Washington DC

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g44/F … tled-1.jpg
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Yeah, that's what I show ... I have microphone selected. I was talking about the "settings" button at the bottom. On it, my FlexiJack is grayed out.

Edit: I was reading somewhere that the flexijack is disabled if the front panel connectors are used. Hmmm ...

2008-04-27 22:39:35

#8

TehMyke: 8======D; +343|6980

xfi cards are epic fail tbh, i regret paying $120 for mine (a yearago++)... i couldnt even set the shit on xfi in BF or else this shit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo1qHyWegZ4 would happen after a few minutes playing... so i have to use hardware settings instead of xfi settings... so i could of gotten away with just buying some cheap as fucking $30 card instead of this failcard

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2008-04-28 05:57:33

#9

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6978|67.222.138.85

Ah, I see. Well at least you know what to test to see if that is true or not.

2008-04-28 06:07:15

#10

OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|6920|Washington DC

The game mode is behaving the same way. I have to toggle line-in and microphone in order to get the microphone to activate.

TehMyke wrote:
xfi cards are epic fail tbh, i regret paying $120 for mine ... so i could of gotten away with just buying some cheap as fucking $30 card instead of this failcard

Overall, I've not thought that the sound from the X-Fi is much greater than on-board audio, but I'm not an audio snob. I got it based on the claims of how much it would off load processing and help with lag. Well, it didn't help a bit and now I have this microphone annoyance.

So, yeah at this point, I wouldn't recommend an X-Fi to anyone.

2008-04-28 06:10:31

#11

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6978|67.222.138.85

OrangeHound wrote:
The game mode is behaving the same way. I have to toggle line-in and microphone in order to get the microphone to activate.

Well try unplugging the front panel.

Also, driver updates.

2008-04-28 06:14:04

#12

OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|6920|Washington DC

Flaming_Maniac wrote:
OrangeHound wrote:
The game mode is behaving the same way. I have to toggle line-in and microphone in order to get the microphone to activate.
Well try unplugging the front panel.

Also, driver updates.

Actually I want my front panel ... and, if you read above, I had BSOD's with their latest driver (took me 2 hours to recover control over my PC).

2008-04-28 06:25:30

#13

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6978|67.222.138.85

OrangeHound wrote:
Flaming_Maniac wrote:
OrangeHound wrote:
The game mode is behaving the same way. I have to toggle line-in and microphone in order to get the microphone to activate.
Well try unplugging the front panel.

Also, driver updates.
Actually I want my front panel ... and, if you read above, I had BSOD's with their latest driver (took me 2 hours to recover control over my PC).

Just do some troubleshooting to see if the front panel is really the problem, so you know exactly what you are working on fixing.

I know the drivers gave you BSODS, but I really think you need to try getting them on. Did you uninstall the old drivers first? I saw some people had that problem when installing updated drivers with BSODs.

2008-04-28 23:19:30

#14

BeerzGod: Hooray Beer!; +94|6841|United States

If you have Vista then your X-Fi card is garbage. Most of the enhanced features on the card are disabled by Vista because of the premium content bullshit, and the rest probably won't work correctly anyway. Didn't any of you read the news about how Creative was purposely not releasing quality drivers or putting forth any effort into making new ones until they con more people into to buying them? If you're running XP then you X-Fi is going to be the best. I've never had a problem with mine and it puts all the other sound cards I've ever had to shame.

2008-04-29 08:09:21

#15

Scratch[USA]: Member; +105|6818

If you have vista go to the creative forums and look for drivers created by Daniel_k or something like that. His drivers unlock the disabled features for the x-fi card in vista. I do not have vista so I can not confirm this, but it is what i have heard.

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