X-Fi functionality on any Realtek HDA Codec

Mike0409 · May 12, 2009

Love these drivers so far! Having great results in Win 7 RC! Nice job man!

oldhouse · May 12, 2009

I have installed them for my ALC1200 chipset. Very nice driver but I have low volume. IUs there something in the registry to "hack" volume?

Ketxxx · May 13, 2009

Did you clean your old drivers out properly? When I used these drivers on my ALC1200 in XP Pro before replacing it with a Xonar DX volume was much louder. Also check your master volume and wave volume levels.

Ketxxx · May 13, 2009

Mussels said:
even if they are suffering placebo, at least they're happy.

I know that leaving the modded drivers i lost all bass, games sounded really weird til i reinstalled the drivers.

The drivers were never meant for Vista and I never originally planned on releasing any for Vista. I can say though that I tried vanilla Vista drivers on W7 and there was no bass at all, everything generally sounded like shit. Can easily be fixed with a option to edit preset equalizer settings, but I don't see Realtek doing that, their lazy. So my advice would be to make absolutely sure you buy a board with any onboard sound other than Realtek, or go buy a cheap £20 soundcard for the equalizer.

oldhouse · May 13, 2009

Ketxxx said:
Did you clean your old drivers out properly? When I used these drivers on my ALC1200 in XP Pro before replacing it with a Xonar DX volume was much louder. Also check your master volume and wave volume levels.

I didn't clean cause I was just using standard driver installed by windows. Should I have uninstalled those driver too?

Mussels · May 13, 2009

Ketxxx said:
The drivers were never meant for Vista and I never originally planned on releasing any for Vista. I can say though that I tried vanilla Vista drivers on W7 and there was no bass at all, everything generally sounded like shit. Can easily be fixed with a option to edit preset equalizer settings, but I don't see Realtek doing that, their lazy. So my advice would be to make absolutely sure you buy a board with any onboard sound other than Realtek, or go buy a cheap £20 soundcard for the equalizer.

you misunderstood. i tried vista with generic realteks and had no bass. going back to the modded ( yours/DK's) my bass came back.

I've wedged my Auzentech back in at last, so i'm leaving realtek for now.

Ketxxx · May 13, 2009

Yeah, when you listen to stuff with a Xonar or something like a X-Mystique, it really makes you realise how you were abusing your ears by using on-board audio, even after tweaking the equalizer to make on-board sound a lot better.

Mussels · May 13, 2009

Ketxxx said:
Yeah, when you listen to stuff with a Xonar or something like a X-Mystique, it really makes you realise how you were abusing your ears by using on-board audio, even after tweaking the equalizer to make on-board sound a lot better.

difference is negligible on my speakers, but huge with the headphones. (then again, my headphones cost 4x what my (bedroom PC) speakers did

)

Ketxxx · May 13, 2009

Really? theres a huge difference between my ALC1200 and Xonar with the X540s, the X540s aren't exactly crap, I just hear so much more I couldn't with the ALC1200 such as ambient noises in games and movies, much better frequency responce which is likely down to the Xonar being able to keep up with the speakers, overall sound clarity is much better too. Theres lots of other little things as well which make all the difference with the listening experience. Even with my low quality 160 WMA files I can hear bits of music I can't on the ALC1200.

oldhouse · May 13, 2009

Do you have xonar D1 or D2?

Ketxxx · May 13, 2009

I have the Xonar DX, its the PCI-E flavor of the D1.

MilkyWay · May 13, 2009

actually thinking of getting a sound card, the onboards okay but i like having that crisp feeling
also if you think your headphones are not doing right then sound cards make them crisper too

Ketxxx · May 13, 2009

Best soundcard of the moment is easily the Xonar DX, it can be found for as little as £50 + postage.

MilkyWay · May 13, 2009

maybe i can find something second hand? £50+ is all right as a guide price i was expecting stuff to cost like £80+

the mods not any good on vista sure the tweaked stuff possible creative codec is good but i want options and crisper sound

it just made me realise how bad onboard unless its a second rig or something

Ketxxx · May 13, 2009

You can check the bay for any Xonar DX cards, but in all honesty £50 really isn't a lot to pay when you look at the quality of the DX, and its drivers and software. For the money you just can't beat it.

Heres a review

Mussels · May 13, 2009

Ketxxx said:
Really? theres a huge difference between my ALC1200 and Xonar with the X540s, the X540s aren't exactly crap, I just hear so much more I couldn't with the ALC1200 such as ambient noises in games and movies, much better frequency responce which is likely down to the Xonar being able to keep up with the speakers, overall sound clarity is much better too. Theres lots of other little things as well which make all the difference with the listening experience. Even with my low quality 160 WMA files I can hear bits of music I can't on the ALC1200.

i'm hard pressed to hear a difference when it comes to the speakers. They have very different levels of bass, but its easy enough to turn the bass knob up.

Cheeseball · May 16, 2009

Any plans to update to the new 2.23s? These actually work for me pretty well under XP...

DaveK · May 16, 2009

MilkyWay said:
actually thinking of getting a sound card, the onboards okay but i like having that crisp feeling
also if you think your headphones are not doing right then sound cards make them crisper too

If using a good sound card is as good as using an X-Fi with the X-Fi Crystalizer on, then man you gotta buy one lol. I have a decent set of 30w RMS 2.1 Dell speakers, and the difference with the X-Fi Crystalizer was day and night, it was so much better, I swear by it. Having it turned off makes music sound so dull and boring, and my sub is so much more responsive, it seems clearer, more definitive. It's worth getting a sound card if it's anything like the X-Fi Crystalizer! I got my X-Fi Platinum for like €20 off my friend

KainXS · May 16, 2009

I read in an earlier post that X-Fi is nothing but SRS but thats not right, realteks drivers use SRS effects, the X-FI MB software bypasses and disables all of that by connecting the drivers to OpenAL, its the original realtek control panel that uses SRS but it gets disabled as soon as you install the X-Fi MB software

X-fi is old but its still good i guess, but on realtek, it sounds, . . . . not clean . . . it sounds dirty

Ketxxx · May 16, 2009

I will update drivers when I next have the time. This was never meant to be a continued support thing, just a one-off driver release.

3dkiller · May 19, 2009

it would be great if you update the drivers once a while.

Geofrancis · May 20, 2009

i got all sorts of crackling sounds when playing flash videos. (youtube n stuff) it went away after i put the old drivers back in.

Caonima · May 28, 2009

Any support for EAX4.0?

Thank you for your work.May I switch on EAX 4.0 Mode under games?I tried in DOOM 3,but the game told me no suitable hardware found.:shadedshu

Mussels · May 28, 2009

Caonima said:
Thank you for your work.May I switch on EAX 4.0 Mode under games?I tried in DOOM 3,but the game told me no suitable hardware found.:shadedshu

the driver alone wont add that, you need to install the creative applications to get that working.

alengrosevic · Jun 26, 2009

will there be update with these drivers? realtek 2.27 are already out... :toast:

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