I'd go for the XFi Elite Pro. It's the best PCI XFi specs wise, and it also comes with a handy external console if you need the extra functionality.

kolderman wrote: I think xfi is right for doom3. DOOM 3 supports EAX 4.0 which the Audigy series have full support for. XFi cards are good for games like Bioshock, Prey and Quake 4 that support EAX 5.0.

The problem seems to be on my end actually. I realized because I made a list of the games that crash and dont crash and I noticed that all the games that do crash have high GPU usage. Some older games with HW accelerated audio dont crash, while newer games with no acceleration at all crash. Then I …

Okay, so I may have found the culprit here. In the OP I mentioned that I have two WD Blue HDD's. A 2TB and a 500GB. The 2TB HDD is pretty new, got it last year if I recall correctly. The 500GB HDD is really, really old (10 years old more or less) and it's health has deteriorated in the last two …

I played about 30 mins of Doom3 with EAX enabled and it didn't crash. I wonder if your X-Fi card could be defective. It also might be worthwhile to try other PCIe slots. Is it possible for the sound card to be defective if everything else outside of these OpenAL applications works fine? im not …

I wonder what it could be though. Is Quake 4 and Swat 4 the only OpenAL game you have? how long was your gaming session? Mass Effect and DOOM 3 usually crash for me after around 5 minutes more or less. I am not entirely sure how much OpenAL time that PC has had on the current Xfi driver but I have …

I am running a X-Fi Ti HD with the current Creative drivers. And Windows is at 1909. I'm sorry to say that I haven't had any BSODs in ages. I have an 8600K on a Asrock Z370 board with a GTX 1080. After I saw this thread I downloaded Quake 4 from Steam and gave it a few minute run with OpenAL …

I have similar issue on 190* builds, immediately getting BSOD in OpenAL games (like Quake 4 with EAX HD enabled) on my X-fi Xtreme Gamer. In earlier builds i fixed this issue by installing older drivers from D. Kawikami (XFI SupportPack 3.8 ), but they don't work anymore in newer W10 builds. What …

1903 broke my Audigy 2 in Windows 10 so I use the integrated Realtek when I boot into 10 on on my other desktop. Not blaming Windows here since we all know how shitty Creative drivers are. Have you tried playing the driver game? Tried using the Windows High Definition Audio driver? Would OpenAL …

Any ideas guys?

So as the title suggests, im having an extremely bad time with my XFi sound card on W10 (currently version 1909) when playing OpenAL games like Mass Effect, DOOM 3 and Bioshock. Im playing these games with HW accelerated audio enabled in their respective options menus. At any rate, what happens is …