I have this very weird problem with my hardware. My motherboards integrated soundcard doesn't work like it should be in this price. Crackling sound etc. I bought SB X-FI Extreme Gamer today and installed it to my pc. I uninstalled all sound max drivers and disabled integrated hd audio from bios. Then i installed latest X-Fi drivers and game sounds was awesome.
Then i noticed something. I started Colin MCRae DIRT and noticed that it had very low FPS. I checked my graphics settings and they were same what i had always used. I booted whole machine and started DIRT again, but same thing.
Then i started 3D Mark 06 with default settings and after test i was mouth open. Only 5000 points. Earlier i got ~13500. I tried to reinstall latest Nvidia beta drivers but they didn't solve problem. Last try was to release X-Fi from MOBO. I started 3D Mark without any soundcard attached and... TADAA 13500 points. I installed again X-FI and points was ~5000. So how my SB X-FI can eat ~8000 3D Marks?
Then i noticed something. I started Colin MCRae DIRT and noticed that it had very low FPS. I checked my graphics settings and they were same what i had always used. I booted whole machine and started DIRT again, but same thing.
Then i started 3D Mark 06 with default settings and after test i was mouth open. Only 5000 points. Earlier i got ~13500. I tried to reinstall latest Nvidia beta drivers but they didn't solve problem. Last try was to release X-Fi from MOBO. I started 3D Mark without any soundcard attached and... TADAA 13500 points. I installed again X-FI and points was ~5000. So how my SB X-FI can eat ~8000 3D Marks?
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