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I have an older computer I still haven't upgraded much except to add USB 3.0 and a 7700 video card. Oh, and a new case. Anyway, I need this one to last till I can build a new one. I upgraded to Windows 8.1 and ever since audio's been screwed up. The only fix is rebooting. Otherwise it sounds like it's underwater when it screws up. I have the Soundblaster X-fi Platinum card and the current Windows 8.1 drivers from Creative's website. SBXF_PCDRV_L11_2_30_0004 in case I managed to grab the wrong ones. Anyway, nothing works. I'd be less annoyed if I could fix it without rebooting but I've tried removing and adding the device in device manager, setting something else as default then coming back, shutting off audio in services then turning it back on, nothing but rebooting fixes it. It worked flawlessly in Windows 7, but other than this one issue I really like Windows 8.1 and don't want to go backwards.
Any ideas? Should I try a competitor's sound card like Rosewill?
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(Aug 14, 2014, 13:33 pm)acsmith1972 Wrote: I have an older computer I still haven't upgraded much except to add USB 3.0 and a 7700 video card. Oh, and a new case. Anyway, I need this one to last till I can build a new one. I upgraded to Windows 8.1 and ever since audio's been screwed up. The only fix is rebooting. Otherwise it sounds like it's underwater when it screws up. I have the Soundblaster X-fi Platinum card and the current Windows 8.1 drivers from Creative's website. SBXF_PCDRV_L11_2_30_0004 in case I managed to grab the wrong ones. Anyway, nothing works. I'd be less annoyed if I could fix it without rebooting but I've tried removing and adding the device in device manager, setting something else as default then coming back, shutting off audio in services then turning it back on, nothing but rebooting fixes it. It worked flawlessly in Windows 7, but other than this one issue I really like Windows 8.1 and don't want to go backwards.
Any ideas? Should I try a competitor's sound card like Rosewill?
Don't buy another card until you know for sure that the one you have is broken. I'm running 8.1 on a HTPC running thru a ATI Radeon 5450 thru the HDMI and I get sound as I should. It's all thru the onboard sound chip. You really shouldn't have to install any drivers for your Sound Card unless it didn't know what it was. I do know that there's also software like DSP and such that is needed or rather used but my audio is fine. Are you sure the audio is going thru the correct port? And did you make sure you have the connections right? It can happen.
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Yes, and the problem arose upgrading to Windows 8.1 For 7 years it worked fine on Vista, then Windows 7. It only started acting odd recently.
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(Aug 16, 2014, 23:20 pm)acsmith1972 Wrote: Yes, and the problem arose upgrading to Windows 8.1 For 7 years it worked fine on Vista, then Windows 7. It only started acting odd recently.
It's possible that this was caused by the upgrade. I assume you did a actual upgrade and not a fresh install.
Did you uninstall the old drivers and grab new ones? Or better yet uninstall the old drivers and turn off the machine and pull out the sound card. Make sure you're onboard is turned off in the bios. Restart into windows and look in the device manager and make sure the SoundBlaster isn't there. Then shut it back down and install the SB and let windows find the drivers. Go back to the device manager and see if there's any problems at all by playing sound, also make sure the settings are correct.
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(Aug 17, 2014, 06:22 am)Bean007 Wrote: (Aug 16, 2014, 23:20 pm)acsmith1972 Wrote: Yes, and the problem arose upgrading to Windows 8.1 For 7 years it worked fine on Vista, then Windows 7. It only started acting odd recently.
It's possible that this was caused by the upgrade. I assume you did a actual upgrade and not a fresh install.
Did you uninstall the old drivers and grab new ones? Or better yet uninstall the old drivers and turn off the machine and pull out the sound card. Make sure you're onboard is turned off in the bios. Restart into windows and look in the device manager and make sure the SoundBlaster isn't there. Then shut it back down and install the SB and let windows find the drivers. Go back to the device manager and see if there's any problems at all by playing sound, also make sure the settings are correct.
So I tried a clean install of the drivers. I don't usually do that since they usually just work, but I downloaded driver sweeper, removed all the old audio drivers from creative, and I installed the current drivers. The problem went away for about a week and then it started again. Then yesterday no sound at all. I was like wtf. So I figured the audio card died. It's an X-fi Fatality card. So I happen to have an audigy I never put in anything so I pull the Fatality and install the Audigy, remove the old drivers put in the new drivers, reboot, problem goes away. Meanwhile, I check the Fatlity, there aren't any blown capacitors, I don't see any score marks from a surge, I can't see why it doesn't work (so I assume it still does). Now today the Audigy stops working. I'm a little confused at this point. I might try a different port and see if that solves the issue and put the Fatality back in since it's much better audio, but this is getting to be a pain in the ass. The only thing I can think of is it's either the motherboard, the hard drive, or Windows 8.1 itself and considering I keep finding forum after forum about it being Windows 8.1 I'm leaning in that direction. No one has a solution, just that Microsoft made Windows Audio incompatible with Windows 8.1 which would just be dumb. I really don't want to do another install and go back to 7.
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