Sound Blaster robbed me

Supra

Supra

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I bought a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro Series Sound Card and it started out bad from the get go. I first had to install some 3rd party drivers that some guy named DavidK made on his own and posted them on the SB Forums (god bless him for trying to help people with this worthless tech.)

After countless uninstalls and re installs I get it work. After non recognized hardware, and every other error code (device not installed on this machine) and this other nonsense. I got it work. I thought I was home free. Not even close, the sound ended up being muffled sounded like there was a swamp cooler in front of the speakers.

How can sound blaster get away with this crap? Everyone on there forum has the same problems. Is there any good sound cards with Digital Audio S/PDIF out?
 
You should have RMA'd it; I had one two years ago & put it in my parents computer...works perfect to this day; those drivers fucked it up for you. If your having problems there are enough people in this community to help you.
 
Your first mistake was buying that card the second was wasting time on the drivers. There's a reason I switched to Asus sound cards. Try one of the Xonar sound cards, I think you'll find the sound to be a lot better and the drivers are stable-meaning reliable which Creative's haven't been for literally years now.
 
Why didnt you try and install sound blaster's drivers first rather than go third party? That muffled sound is likely one of EAX's sound emulation environments where it changes the type of environment the sound is coming from. It may have been stuck on somehting like "in a cave"
 
BOT#00001 said:
Why didnt you try and install sound blaster's drivers first rather than go third party? That muffled sound is likely one of EAX's sound emulation environments where it changes the type of environment the sound is coming from. It may have been stuck on somehting like "in a cave"
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I did but got no where, I will try again.
 
The sound blaster's drivers are among some of the most annoying to install, sometimes it takes a few tries and some tweaking.
 
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