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Originally Posted by imperialreign
The application recommended in that article? No. Can't say I've seen that program before . . . but, the use of adjusting PCI Latency to cure audio clipping? Yes, that's been a known fix since audio cards first moved from ISA slots to PCI back in '96. The problem wasn't too bad with most consumer level cards, and adjusting PCI latency as a fix practically fell to the way-side for a few years. Around 2004 when the X-Fi was released, though, it came back with a vegenance as the APUs are extremelly BUS heavy. It was even more of a problem depending on how many other devices you were using, what kind of motherboard you had, and what kind of video card you were using.
I'll look into that app - it might be worthy of recommendation for users with latency problems that have no means to adjust clock times via BIOS.
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This app appears to work under XP, nosomuch Windows 7.
On my machine, I can affect how bad the clipping is by how many PCI-E video cards I have installed.
I run three 4850's typically, and I was using the default Windows 7 drivers with this X-Fi Fatality.
Once I realized I was not getting sound out of my surround speakers, I installed the Creative Auto-Updater to get the entire suite of software.
Since thing,
everything skips and clips and chops.
Nothing I do, short of removing two video cards, affects the clipping any.
I have forced my PCI latency to 32 and 248, and everything in between.
Not sure what else I could attempt, besides overclocking the PCI bus.