steve-bbb Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 (edited) help please i dont actually have much hair left to pull out!!! have an emu0404pci-e card in a pc running windows7 (fully uptodate and with a dedicated vid card with 1gb vram) - i understand that emu apparently discontinued supporting the drivers for this card and others after XP - i have tried all the various little fizes i can find online but still suffering from sound signal break up the machine has a decent enough quadcore processor and 8gb of RAM sound breakup occurs in all and any apps although it noticeably seems to play up more in spotify this same card worked perfectly in an old sony vaio machine with a much slower processor and only 4gb of ram but crucially i guess with XP fully patched up any suggestions much appreciated ta ed- closing down the apps and restarting them usually clears it but sometimes they need closing down 2 or three times Edited November 21, 2015 by steve-bbb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveFry Posted November 21, 2015 Share Posted November 21, 2015 Their drivers seem to support Win 7 32 or 64 :- ( Version US_2_30_00 ) Click on " Show Details " http://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?catID=237&CatName=E-MU+%2f+Creative+Professional&subCatID=942&subCatName=PCIe+Audio%2fMIDI+Interfaces&prodID=20022&prodName=E-MU+0404+PCIe&bTopTwenty=1&VARSET=prodfaq:PRODFAQ_20022,VARSET=CategoryID:237 If you are using Win 7 Professional try installing the driver in legacy XP mode . ( Win 7 Home doesn't allow this ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveFry Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 How is the hair , Steve ? Further investigations indicate it could be a sample rate and bit-depth mismatch between the Win 7 defaults and the 404 settings . If they don't match then the sound card will be very busy resampling all the time which may lead to dropouts . Try configuring them so that they match :- see the 4th reply on this this page , the one from the E-MU employee ; [url="http://productionforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=11041"]http://productionfor...pic.php?t=11041[/url] and ; [url="http://www.moonshizzleproductions.com/blog/2010/03/windows-7-troubles-with-the-e-mu-0404-pci-card-and-how-to-fix/"]http://www.moonshizz...and-how-to-fix/[/url] - Don't be afraid to ask for further explanation/guidance . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-bbb Posted November 25, 2015 Author Share Posted November 25, 2015 Ho thanks for reply is not pro version so unfortunately cannot install in do legacy mode - have also checked the sample rate mismatch issue and that doesn't cure the problem either Another strange side effect is that it is somehow eating int the video ram? When a sound app has been playing a while and breaks up or locks up completely, then hitting the X to close it down does close it but leaves its ghost behind on the screen ( tha machine has a dedicated vid card with 1gb ram and is not using the motherboard vid processing so not sure why there should be conflict there) Previously had this same card in a less powerful machine but running fully patched up XP and it ran sweet as anything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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