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I saw a Fatal1ty X-Fi sound card on sale for $50 after a $70 mail-in rebate. It was initially $120 but it's on sale for less than half. Should I go for it?
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Since before the release of Windows 7, Creative has been getting bug reports about memory leaks with audiodg, and there has been three driver releases since those bug reports started coming in, and they have done nothing to correct it.
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Processor | i7 2600k 4.4GHz :: i5 10400 |
Motherboard | ASUS P8P67 Pro :: ASUS Prime H570-Plus |
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Memory | 4x4GB DDR3 2133 :: 2x8GB DDR4 2400 |
Video Card(s) | PNY GTX1070 :: Integrated UHD 630 |
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Display(s) | Onn 165hz 1080p :: Acer 1080p |
Case | Antec SOHO 1030B :: Old White Full Tower |
Audio Device(s) | Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro - Bose Companion 2 Series III :: None |
Power Supply | FSP Hydro GE 550w :: EVGA Supernova 550 |
Software | Windows 10 Pro - Plex Server on Dragonfly |
Benchmark Scores | >9000 |
Huh? The last stable driver is dated June 2009, the only release since Windows 7 (in its then RC form).
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Software | Windows 10 64bit |
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Have not experienced any win 7 creative conundrum lately... had more shite happening in xp 32 tbh. This mem leak in audiodg, I'd like to know more of it though (symptoms, logs etc) ...No. I wouldn't take that garbage for free (well, the hardware is awesome, the drivers and Creative themselves blow, blow blow). I would rather use onboard sound. Since before the release of Windows 7, Creative has been getting bug reports about memory leaks with audiodg, and there has been three driver releases since those bug reports started coming in, and they have done nothing to correct it.
System Name | Starlifter :: Dragonfly |
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Processor | i7 2600k 4.4GHz :: i5 10400 |
Motherboard | ASUS P8P67 Pro :: ASUS Prime H570-Plus |
Cooling | Cryorig M9 :: Stock |
Memory | 4x4GB DDR3 2133 :: 2x8GB DDR4 2400 |
Video Card(s) | PNY GTX1070 :: Integrated UHD 630 |
Storage | Crucial MX500 1TB, 2x1TB Seagate RAID 0 :: Mushkin Enhanced 60GB SSD, 3x4TB Seagate HDD RAID5 |
Display(s) | Onn 165hz 1080p :: Acer 1080p |
Case | Antec SOHO 1030B :: Old White Full Tower |
Audio Device(s) | Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro - Bose Companion 2 Series III :: None |
Power Supply | FSP Hydro GE 550w :: EVGA Supernova 550 |
Software | Windows 10 Pro - Plex Server on Dragonfly |
Benchmark Scores | >9000 |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5700G |
Motherboard | ASUS ROG Strix B450-E Gaming |
Cooling | DeepCool Gammax L240 V2 |
Memory | 2x 8GB G.Skill Sniper X |
Video Card(s) | Palit GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GameRock |
Storage | Western Digital Black NVMe 512GB |
Display(s) | BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch |
Case | Corsair Carbide 100R |
Audio Device(s) | ASUS SupremeFX S1220A |
Power Supply | Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W |
Mouse | ASUS ROG Strix Impact |
Keyboard | Gamdias Hermes E2 |
Software | Windows 11 Pro |
Just google creative audiodg, you'll get more hits than you'll ever care to look at. Basically it's a bunch of people saying there's a memory leak, a bunch more people saying "yeah, I have that problem too", and a bunch of people who are pissed off about it.
Currently, the solution is to go into your sound properties and disable sound blaster enhancements, which is obviously not a real solution... yeah sure, let me disable these features (like CMSS... this won't work with sound blaster enhancements disabled) I was expecting to be able to use with my $150 sound card and my $80 5.1 speaker system...
Don't get me wrong, the Creative X-Fi is a great sound card, with great features, it's just extra shitty and absolutely not worth the money when you have problems like the audiodg memory leak that's been going on for at least 2 years now, and the best solution is to disable the features you expected to be able to use with your $150 sound card.
System Name | Starlifter :: Dragonfly |
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Processor | i7 2600k 4.4GHz :: i5 10400 |
Motherboard | ASUS P8P67 Pro :: ASUS Prime H570-Plus |
Cooling | Cryorig M9 :: Stock |
Memory | 4x4GB DDR3 2133 :: 2x8GB DDR4 2400 |
Video Card(s) | PNY GTX1070 :: Integrated UHD 630 |
Storage | Crucial MX500 1TB, 2x1TB Seagate RAID 0 :: Mushkin Enhanced 60GB SSD, 3x4TB Seagate HDD RAID5 |
Display(s) | Onn 165hz 1080p :: Acer 1080p |
Case | Antec SOHO 1030B :: Old White Full Tower |
Audio Device(s) | Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro - Bose Companion 2 Series III :: None |
Power Supply | FSP Hydro GE 550w :: EVGA Supernova 550 |
Software | Windows 10 Pro - Plex Server on Dragonfly |
Benchmark Scores | >9000 |
System Name | Obelisc |
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Processor | i7 3770k @ 4.8 GHz |
Motherboard | Asus P8Z77-V |
Cooling | H110 |
Memory | 16GB(4x4) @ 2400 MHz 9-11-11-31 |
Video Card(s) | GTX 780 Ti |
Storage | 850 EVO 1TB, 2x 5TB Toshiba |
Case | T81 |
Audio Device(s) | X-Fi Titanium HD |
Power Supply | EVGA 850 T2 80+ TITANIUM |
Software | Win10 64bit |
System Name | Starlifter :: Dragonfly |
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Processor | i7 2600k 4.4GHz :: i5 10400 |
Motherboard | ASUS P8P67 Pro :: ASUS Prime H570-Plus |
Cooling | Cryorig M9 :: Stock |
Memory | 4x4GB DDR3 2133 :: 2x8GB DDR4 2400 |
Video Card(s) | PNY GTX1070 :: Integrated UHD 630 |
Storage | Crucial MX500 1TB, 2x1TB Seagate RAID 0 :: Mushkin Enhanced 60GB SSD, 3x4TB Seagate HDD RAID5 |
Display(s) | Onn 165hz 1080p :: Acer 1080p |
Case | Antec SOHO 1030B :: Old White Full Tower |
Audio Device(s) | Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro - Bose Companion 2 Series III :: None |
Power Supply | FSP Hydro GE 550w :: EVGA Supernova 550 |
Software | Windows 10 Pro - Plex Server on Dragonfly |
Benchmark Scores | >9000 |
System Name | RBMK-1000 |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5700G |
Motherboard | ASUS ROG Strix B450-E Gaming |
Cooling | DeepCool Gammax L240 V2 |
Memory | 2x 8GB G.Skill Sniper X |
Video Card(s) | Palit GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GameRock |
Storage | Western Digital Black NVMe 512GB |
Display(s) | BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch |
Case | Corsair Carbide 100R |
Audio Device(s) | ASUS SupremeFX S1220A |
Power Supply | Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W |
Mouse | ASUS ROG Strix Impact |
Keyboard | Gamdias Hermes E2 |
Software | Windows 11 Pro |
I'm not bashing Creative because it's cool, or because I'm trying to avoid crying myself to sleep over my bad audio quality (personally, I think my Audigy SE sounds great, I just wish Creative hadn't removed the CMSS functionality from thier Vista/7 drivers, another shitty thing Creative did, but that's not the issue here...).
No, audiodg isn't a security risk. I never said it was. Stability risk... it can be, in a way. I would say something is unstable when I'm talking on Vent and playing a video game at the same time, and the audiodg process gets so fat that everything starts lagging and going to shit.
I've read that audiodg is a DRM tool. From how I read it, you make it seem like audiodg is a 'crutch', in a manner of speaking, for developers to use to insert thier cool stuff, such as the X-Fi Crystalizer into it; however, audiodg did not exist in XP, and cool stuff like the Crystalizer and CMMS worked great.
Trivial issue? Hardly. A trivial issue would be something like the sound card not having a spot to plug one of those goofy wires that went from the cdrom to an audio header to get audio from the cdrom back in the day. This issue is an issue about losing functionality, such as CMSS, to a memory leak issue that's been going on for quite some time, and hasn't been fixed over a time period something like two years. In my opinion, this is a very huge issue that must be avoided (again, why pay all this money for these features if they're not even usable), and I am simply trying to make others aware of it, so they don't get the same issues that plauged so many others.
I saw a Fatal1ty X-Fi sound card on sale for $50 after a $70 mail-in rebate. It was initially $120 but it's on sale for less than half. Should I go for it?
System Name | Obelisc |
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Processor | i7 3770k @ 4.8 GHz |
Motherboard | Asus P8Z77-V |
Cooling | H110 |
Memory | 16GB(4x4) @ 2400 MHz 9-11-11-31 |
Video Card(s) | GTX 780 Ti |
Storage | 850 EVO 1TB, 2x 5TB Toshiba |
Case | T81 |
Audio Device(s) | X-Fi Titanium HD |
Power Supply | EVGA 850 T2 80+ TITANIUM |
Software | Win10 64bit |
doesn't affect the quality of the product.
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Software | Win 10 Home x64 |
I'm not bashing Creative because it's cool, or because I'm trying to avoid crying myself to sleep over my bad audio quality (personally, I think my Audigy SE sounds great, I just wish Creative hadn't removed the CMSS functionality from thier Vista/7 drivers, another shitty thing Creative did, but that's not the issue here...).
No, audiodg isn't a security risk. I never said it was. Stability risk... it can be, in a way. I would say something is unstable when I'm talking on Vent and playing a video game at the same time, and the audiodg process gets so fat that everything starts lagging and going to shit.
I've read that audiodg is a DRM tool. From how I read it, you make it seem like audiodg is a 'crutch', in a manner of speaking, for developers to use to insert thier cool stuff, such as the X-Fi Crystalizer into it; however, audiodg did not exist in XP, and cool stuff like the Crystalizer and CMMS worked great.
Trivial issue? Hardly. A trivial issue would be something like the sound card not having a spot to plug one of those goofy wires that went from the cdrom to an audio header to get audio from the cdrom back in the day. This issue is an issue about losing functionality, such as CMSS, to a memory leak issue that's been going on for quite some time, and hasn't been fixed over a time period something like two years. In my opinion, this is a very huge issue that must be avoided (again, why pay all this money for these features if they're not even usable), and I am simply trying to make others aware of it, so they don't get the same issues that plauged so many others.
System Name | RBMK-1000 |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 5700G |
Motherboard | ASUS ROG Strix B450-E Gaming |
Cooling | DeepCool Gammax L240 V2 |
Memory | 2x 8GB G.Skill Sniper X |
Video Card(s) | Palit GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GameRock |
Storage | Western Digital Black NVMe 512GB |
Display(s) | BenQ 1440p 60 Hz 27-inch |
Case | Corsair Carbide 100R |
Audio Device(s) | ASUS SupremeFX S1220A |
Power Supply | Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W |
Mouse | ASUS ROG Strix Impact |
Keyboard | Gamdias Hermes E2 |
Software | Windows 11 Pro |
Your logic does not compute... what are you living in bizarro world? Your wheels are square you say? You pay for a product with a certain feature set, that feature set turns out to be defective. That is a quality issue any way you cut it.
System Name | Obelisc |
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Processor | i7 3770k @ 4.8 GHz |
Motherboard | Asus P8Z77-V |
Cooling | H110 |
Memory | 16GB(4x4) @ 2400 MHz 9-11-11-31 |
Video Card(s) | GTX 780 Ti |
Storage | 850 EVO 1TB, 2x 5TB Toshiba |
Case | T81 |
Audio Device(s) | X-Fi Titanium HD |
Power Supply | EVGA 850 T2 80+ TITANIUM |
Software | Win10 64bit |
What I'm saying is that the memory leaks don't affect the performance or quality of audio, or any of its features
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Power Supply | FSP Hydro Ti PRO 1000W |
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Keyboard | Tester84 |
Software | Windows 11 |