mvmiller12
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I have a pair of Auzentech X-Fi HomeTheatre PCIe audio cards. I love them, but they have no support from Creative at all despite using the X-Fi chip. In all fairness, Creative is not and should not be required to support a third-party product, but for me to get this card working, I have to rely on 3rd-party hacked drivers to get this card working in modern builds of Windows 10, and it's far from "install and play."
As a matter of fact I have to install the driver, which causes a BSOD, reboot into Safe Mode, disable the driver, reboot into normal mode and enable the driver and reboot one more time for it to work. I only have to do this dance the one time when doing a fresh Windows install, but it still has to be done. And after that, the master volume control does not work. I use the volume control on my receiver instead. And on top of that, any changes to the card's configuration (speaker config, sound mode, etc) won't stick across reboots unless (and I am not kidding here) I put the computer to SLEEP after making them and then wake it up again.
This is with the hacked drivers required to get it working at all (the hack combines the last Daniel_K driver with a few of the DLL's from the latest X-Fi driver build from Creative). Once it's all configured and running, it's great though .
As a matter of fact I have to install the driver, which causes a BSOD, reboot into Safe Mode, disable the driver, reboot into normal mode and enable the driver and reboot one more time for it to work. I only have to do this dance the one time when doing a fresh Windows install, but it still has to be done. And after that, the master volume control does not work. I use the volume control on my receiver instead. And on top of that, any changes to the card's configuration (speaker config, sound mode, etc) won't stick across reboots unless (and I am not kidding here) I put the computer to SLEEP after making them and then wake it up again.
This is with the hacked drivers required to get it working at all (the hack combines the last Daniel_K driver with a few of the DLL's from the latest X-Fi driver build from Creative). Once it's all configured and running, it's great though .