Need help using X-Fi Notebook sound card with 9262 Vista

I recently bought a 9262.
I am unable to get the X-Fi sound card to work.
I have the speaker adapter which allows me to do 5.1 sound but I am only getting the subwoofer, none of the speakers are firing.
I have tried 2 drivers from Sound blaster to no avail.

Chris.

 

Did you connect the speakers also? the card should come with a bunch of cables to connect all of them.
Not totally sure, but I think you`re supose to use all the jacks....

 

I use only optical ouput, works fine ～～

 

My computer surround system is not set up to take optical. 'sigh'.
I was hoping someone was able to make this work with Vista.
Something tells me it would work fine with XP.

Chris.

 

I use the x-fi with vista fine...Using the standard creative drivers and connecting the 4 jacks over the docking module. Are you sure all 4 leads are correclty connected?

 

Yup mine works great with Vista x64. No issues at all. Do you have the latest drivers? Wrong cable setup is all I can think of. Turn CSMM or whatever its called on and play some music, see if that fills the channels.

 

Slightly off topic, but if you feel like branching out:
How do you guys like the X-Fi? I've been eying it for a while now, and now that the Zen X-Fi is coming out I'm all the more tempted to get either one or both.

@Chris:
I've read a few reviews that say the X-Fi is optimized for Vista, ie: Vista brings out the most in it (when it works). But that's just what I've read.

 

Audio built for Vista is better. Audio from XP and before was using the same audio stack built in win95. It was time for a new one, even if it did cause issues.

I love mine, like I've said. The front ports of my notebook are so screwed up, I decided to get the X-Fi. Audio from FL Studio is superb. I really can hear thing that I could not before. You would not be unsatisfied with it. Especially if you have anything originally encoded in 96k/24-bit audio.

Crysis is .8-1fps faster in my benchmarks with the X-Fi. I'd assume because of the offload of work from the CPU to the sound card. And it sounds soo much better.

 

could you tell me what drivers you are using?
I tried drivers which came with card, and latest drivers from Sound Blaster to no avail.

Chris.

 

I'm using the drivers from Creatives website. Running x64 SP1.

 

So you guys like the X-Fi? Did you try any usb solutions first or just go straight to the expresscard?

I'm very close to buying one (actually have it and the adapter in my cart on amazon atm) but I've been waiting for eleron911's review before doing so. Hopefully he'll get that up today or tomorrow hehe

 

Yeah, eleron if you get that review up could you give us a link here (please)?

@Sterben: if you get it soon tell me what you think! No rush though...