Onboard audio and surround

**Zanderat** · 09-12-2010, 01:13 PM

Not true or not specific to CL.

If the issue is Open AL, use the Creative ALchemy program. It restores the hardware support that Windows 7 dropped.

I am having no sound issues with my Creative X-fi Xtreme Music in Windows 7 and am using Alchemy. Running full hardware support with 128 streams:

Quote:Initializing Sound Module
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Initializing OpenAL
Available OpenAL devices:
0. Generic Hardware on Speakers (2- Creative SB X-Fi)
1. Generic Software on Speakers (2- Creative SB X-Fi)
2. SB X-Fi Audio [E800](OpenAL default)
Trying to open device 'SB X-Fi Audio [E800]'... Success!
Number of mono sources: 128
Streaming setup: 4 Buffers x 262144 bytes each
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