[Hexaflex]

If anyone can help me with this they have my utmost thanks, registered here because I have no clue what to try to get this working.

I've got my 360 connected to my offscreen, and I want to run the sound through the Xtreme PCI-e to my normal PC speakers. My onboard sound handled this fine, so I assumed it'd be just as easy to get working with the Xtreme.

However, I can't get the Xtreme to play any kind of input at all. Mic for testing, y-splitter from 360, toslink from 360, none of them work. I can record from the inputs just fine, if I set them correctly from the Recording Control, but they refuse to play through the speakers. I'm thinking this is because the only options in Playback Control are Playback, Wave, MIDI and CD Audio, none of which are the right option (all are unmuted anyway).

I've uninstalled the onboard sound, tried reinstalling the Creative drivers a number of times, using both the CD drivers from a d/l'd .iso and the latest ones from the Creative site, and nothing seems to work. I'm at a loss to think what could be the problem, as googling has turned up people having problems with getting 5.1 to work with this card due to it being a rebadged audigy, but nothing about just getting 2.1 to work, which is all I want. I just want 360 sound that isn't horrible horrible onboard!

Any help is much appreciated :sigh:

 

[Hexaflex]

Bump!

Is there any hope of this card supporting input playback, or am I just going to have to buy another sound card? :\

 

[Riskyone101]

Hello and Welcome to TSF,

What do you mean that you disabled onboard sound?
by this you say you uninstalled the driver?
Did you disable onboard also in the bios?

 

[Hexaflex]

Yeah, I'd uninstalled the driver. I completely forgot that it being something onboard means there would be bios options about it.

Disabled it there as well now, but there's still no sound from 360 input and still no new options under playback control. Mic also refuses to play, only record :<

Thanks for the reply though! I'm sure there'll be other stuff I've missed, if you can think what it might be. I think there's a thread in these forums about someone having 'only' 2.1 sound with this card, so it should be possible.

 

[Riskyone101]

Ok now disable onboard video in the bios,

Next boot pc up and uninstall sound card driver in add/remove
go to device manager and make sure its not showing there either.
if it is simply uninstall it there to.

reboot pc
once at the desktop, reinstall the sound driver for the card now
reboot pc again

Now you should have sound.

 

[Hexaflex]

There isn't any onboard video to disable, but I went through the uninstalling and reinstalling, and I found I hadn't uninstalled the "Soundmax" onboard sound utility, so I got rid of that too.

Still no joy. My PC sound works fine, but it always has. It's still not playing the input from the 360 though :\

I'm thinking maybe it just can't handle taking an input and playing it through to the speakers, but the guy in this thread seems to say that 5.1 sound is a no-go, but 2.1 sound through a toslink works, in slychicken37's 2nd post -

Have you noticed that if you switch your xbox to 2.1 sound using the toslink connector that it plays sound??

2.1 is all I want! If I could get toslink to play 2.1 sound through this sound card I'd be happy.

 

[Pauldo]

Yeah, you should be able to hear something.

The only thing I can think of is that there is a known issue with those cards in that the Mic output will not play over your speakers if "What U Hear" (or Stereo mix) is selected/enabled. Maybe that applies to spdif input as well.

Also, you haven't mentioned anything about spdif input settings. Have you fiddled with those?

Pauldo