Sound Blaster X-Fi defaults to stock profile upon reboot

I like the Movie profile best, it makes the speakers louder and crisper. but everytime I reboot, I have to select that profile again


Is there a way to have it activate that profile for me automatically so I don't have to do it manually every time? it's getting tedious

 

I would like to know that as well. I've already given up on having the keyboard's lights stay red upon restart and stop the lights on the lid's back from pulsating, so maybe the Movie profile can actually stick once and for all.

 

That is interesting. The SB X-Fi MB3 on the P750ZM stays set on whatever I choose after reboot. I just tested it to confirm... set it to Movie, rebooted and still on Movie. I never really use this for anything, but if I did that would be annoying to me as well. I did not have it installed on the P870DM-G most of the time because it lowered by CPU-related benchmark scores a little bit because of the Creative background services stealing clock cycles.

 

1) What version are you using?

2) Did you ensure to delete the startup entry from Autoruns called updatereg.exe ? that's a virus! not literally

 

Do you have Clevo Control Center installed? I think my CCC is overwriting SB X-Fi every restart

 

I had this issue as well and it was a CCC and SB interference. I think I solved it by reinstalling SB with the CCC already installed but I am not quite sure. Also try to set the "Direct" profile in CCC and then choose whatever sound profile you prefer through the SB app.

 

This fixed it for me. Wish there was a way to let CCC control only the keyboard colors, OSD and nothing else.

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Glad it got sorted out. I wish that as well. I would love to have a standalone Clevo app for only the keyboard lighting. I don't have any use for the other functionality in Clevo Control Center. I disable the OSD output because I don't want to see those on-screen indicators.

 

I seem to recall some users suggesting installing CCC and manually copying the keyboard control panel software, uninstalling CCC and using the keyboard software as standalone. Haven't tested but if none done I yet, worth a try.

 

1. The version ending in 73
2. Yes. Almost everything is disabled in startup

I've tried that and, unfortunately, it does not work. I wish it did. That would be awesome.

 

I've tried that and it never worked for me. Hell, I even tried an exact copy of the directory after I uninstalled it, and it still didn't work.

 

Shame, that would've been a great way of ditching the whole CCC. From my understanding, the reason it wouldn't work is related to the whole hotkey minidriver that's silently installed nowadays (used to be visible even through installation media). If the hotkey package can be installed by itself, using a standalone copy of the keyboard software should work.

 

I've tried just about everything you could think of, even attempting to manually install .infs. There is no good solution, unfortuantely.

 

I'm not entirely sure but I believe the controller responsible for lights and such didn't change between DM and DM2/3 models so what about extracting the very first DM CCC package installer and apply just the hotkey component, then move the previously copied keyboard software over to any given location on the system? Keyboard application's original install folder shouldn't be required since the minidriver shouldn't add fixed reg paths, but could be placed in Program Files if it needed to.

Sadly I'll only be able to fully test that myself months from now due to waiting for panel availability for updated DM models :S

 

I'm still on ZM so I dunno about DM. Oh well, I guess I just have to suffer with this bloated, buggy program.

 

What about disabling CCC from startup and just add a direct shortcut to the keyboard application. With CCC (and the respective hotkey package) installed, it should work flawlessly and you'd still avoid having CCC bloating boot times. You could even use software to add individual .exe to the tray, bypassing further any need for CCC.

 

Nope, that didn't work either for me. Trust me, I tried like EVERY combination and every idea. Nothing worked except installing and enabling CCC to startup. It may be different for DM but at least that's what I've experienced with ZM.

 

Only thing I managed to do using this way is waking up the headphone jack without CCC being enabled on startup. Unfortunately I can't make the jack work with CCC completely uninstalled even if I isolate all the files needed for it. I hope they fix the damn app sometime as it has caused so much trouble to people, it might as well not exist.

 

SM and HM used to work with this although there were way less dependencies there, and I believe the original DM should work in similar fashion. Have you tried installing a hotkey package from older ZM's?

 

I can't remember which version I tried but I tried a couple versions of HotKey and it didn't seem to work. I spent many hours trying to get it to work but unfortunately I wasn't able to no matter what I tried.

 

Well, while I don't have more ideas on it, once I do put my hands on a DM (might take a while due to waiting for updated panels) I will report back if I do find something useful.

 

@Mr. Fox

I just formatted due to my high overclock fux0ring up my entire system and this time I installed the older .14 SoundBlaster driver a day now the profile sticks even after a reboot.

Not sure if the newer .18 driver is buggy or if it's simply not compatible with the older P870DM as I stole that driver from the P870DM3 drivers page