Onboard X-Fi Drivers

The SupremeFX-X-Fi is a Pain in the rear. I've ripped the drivers from my motherboard cd since they are the same as yours and uploaded them to Filefront.

You have to install the Analog Devices SoundMAX drivers first, then install the X-Fi drivers on top of that. Why it couldn't be streamlined, I have no idea, but then again, I don't know why Asus still insists on including Creative hardware when they make their own sound solutions.

Oh, and for the love of pete, don't lose the product activation key that's on the sleeve of the motherboard driver disk. If you lose that, you won't be able to access any x-fi functionality. I had to replace the product key for mine by ordering a new driver disk, and it was a two month ordeal with the asus store. A complete nightmare. .

In the X-Fi.7z folder, run setup.exe, not asussetup.exe.

SB X-FI-MB software
SoundMAX software

Sweet. I will give it a shot. Rep+ for the suggestion. I agree it seems silly to not have an onboard Xonar, but whatever, they make the boards for a reason.

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What do I use to open a .7z? Winrar?

Go to creative.com and run the auto-update thing. See if it picks it up and lists drivers.

yeah, sorry. I don't use winrar. Just 7zip. I guess I could have made it a bit more friendly and put them in a .zip file instead...

OK, is there a way to get it working in Windows 7? The only audio my PC is seeing right now is HDMI (which I don't have, so that's weird enough already) and nothing in the SupremeFX folder seems to install anything for me.

In the Vista folder, run setup.exe The Vista drivers work for 7. I just packed up the whole folder and subfolders since I didn't know exactly what files the installer would call for.

There *might* be updated SoundMAX drivers on the Asus support site. I've found that they have different versions for each board, even though the boards have the same sound card. I'm using the drivers that are on the Maximus II Gene downloads section.

no, not quite the same problem. We both have the SupremeFX X-Fi card that comes with the motherboard, and the drivers for it are confusing.

When I try to run the Vista drivers, it says "These drivers do not support your system's hardware. If you have recently installed audio drivers restart your computer and try again." I have restarted, and nothing changed.

Yup, nothing doing as far as that goes... Stupid ASUS. I was beginning to like them with the 4 GHz and all that, but without basic functionality, it's useless.

I think all it is is some of the software-based X-Fi stuff (EAX, Crystalizer, CMSS 3D, etc) on top of the onboard audio. I don't think it's X-Fi hardware, but I'm not sure.