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tyme1012
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"What U Hear" Windows 7 x64.

Has anyone been able to successfully get "What U Hear" working on Windows 7 32bit or 64bit? I tired sending Creative an email, but i got the "automated" uninstall reinstall driver BS. Which I did, and did nothing but waste time. I am running the most recent drivers aswell.

 

I have an X-Fi Xtreamgamer running the 2.18.0013 drivers on Windows 7 x64.

 

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TexDude
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Re: "What U Hear" Windows 7 x64.

What is the "What U hear"? I am trying to work out some bugs related to my Xtreme Music. Let me know and I'll try it on mine.

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jmacguire
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Re: "What U Hear" Windows 7 x64.

Here is my personal "tried and true way" to get "What U Hear" back my PCI Platinum Fatality, which is similar to your card.

 

Be aware that you results will vary, but I did this three times on three computers.

 

I downloaded the newest drivers for the X-FI Titanium.  Yes I know that sounds crazy.  I have WinRar and WinAce on my system, but 7-zip is free and works just as well.  I right click the downloaded driver  .exe from Creative.  I then went to device manager, and then choose to update driver, and then I chose "Have disk" and show all devices and then I browse to where I unzipped the driver for the Titanium and installed it.  I Rebooted and it works great.  This restored "what you Hear" for me.  Using the wrong driver is weird but I forgot what sound card I had in the machine and it worked anyway, and I have great sound.

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jmacguire
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tyme1012
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Re: "What U Hear" Windows 7 x64.

In Windows "Recording Devices" it says "Currently Unavailable". When I used Vista, it always said "Currently Unavailable", but when ever i chose it in what ever programs i was using (eg. Ventrilo) it worked fine...

 

Now when I choose it in Ventrilo, i get this error: "Failed to open input device. Another program might have it open already. rc = -10". Ventrilo isnt the only program that it dosent work with, all my programs dont work with "What U Hear".

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jmacguire
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Re: "What U Hear" Windows 7 x64.

What U Hear is a driver function that lets you record ALL sound being output on your computer.  People use this to record webcasts, snippets of movies, songs clips........

 

 

Cheers,
jmacguire
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wynand32
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Re: "What U Hear" Windows 7 x64.

In Win 7 32bit, I see What U Hear in the audio stack, but it's simply not picking up any audio. Any updates from anyone on this one?

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jmacguire
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Re: "What U Hear" Windows 7 x64.

WHAT U HEAR must be chosen as the default recording device.  Make sure you plug in your microphone.  Then select 'what U hear" instead as the recording device.  This way you have mic or 'what u hear" both as choices.  Play a video or song, and record while doing it.  Look below and you will see my choices now: 

 

 

In the windows control panel, under sound, and then under recording devices, I can speak into the microphone and I can hear it coming out of my speakers.  I then mute the micophone and it is still recording, because if I open the control panel, sound, recording applet, both bars for sound bounce until I mute the mic.  Then the mic is recording but not allowing the sound play too.

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jmacguire
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tyme1012
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Re: "What U Hear" Windows 7 x64.

 


jmacguire wrote:

WHAT U HEAR must be chosen as the default recording device.  Make sure you plug in your microphone.  Then select 'what U hear" instead as the recording device.  This way you have mic or 'what u hear" both as choices.  Play a video or song, and record while doing it.  Look below and you will see my choices now: 

 

 

In the windows control panel, under sound, and then under recording devices, I can speak into the microphone and I can hear it coming out of my speakers.  I then mute the micophone and it is still recording, because if I open the control panel, sound, recording applet, both bars for sound bounce until I mute the mic.  Then the mic is recording but not allowing the sound play too.


 

 

I see what your tring to say, but when I choose "What U Hear" I get nothing, no audio, no nothing. In the Windows control panel like you mention it looks like this:

 

As you see no green level bar, no nothing. Just "Currently Unavailble". I was playing around with the something last night and go it to work for about 10 minutes, and than back to "Currently Unavailble". This is proably a driver issue, which Creative is going to take forever to remedy. As always. I was just wondering if anyone else is having this issue with Windows 7, and/or if there is a fix/workaround.

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jmacguire
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Re: "What U Hear" Windows 7 x64.

That High Definition Audio device tells me right there that you do not have the right drivers installed for your system.  These drivers show up when your drivers are done by Windows Update.  Try installing the Daniel K. package on your system, reboot and try your microphone again.  On Windows 7 and Vista 32 bit and 64 bit the default for the Creative X-FI PCI-express is high definition multimedia device.  Install the Daniel K. package on your system then reboot.  You should then see x-fi insteald of high definition multimedia device.

 

Here is the link.........

http://forums.creative.com/t5/Sound-Blaster/SB-X-Fi-Series-Support-Pack-2-0-05-15-2009/td-p/527485

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jmacguire
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tyme1012
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Re: "What U Hear" Windows 7 x64.

Yea, I meant to say to disregard that. I was just messing around with some onboard audio stuff, that usally isn't there.