murcielago585 Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 I have a Creative X-fi sound card and a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard and I am about to install 10.5.1. I am going to install it with vista on a second ahrd drive and want to use the x-fi for vista. Does anybody know if I can make the integrated sound work in OSX whithout having to take it out. Can I just enable the "automatic" setting in the bios where I choose if I want the integrated audio disable or not? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92081-creative-x-fi-in-conjunction-with-integrated/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
badboyz Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 should work but no promise, most of them just need the HDA patcher and they work flawless outers, just a pain in the a$$ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92081-creative-x-fi-in-conjunction-with-integrated/#findComment-659290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PnP Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 I have dual boot with 2 soundcards.. X-fi extreme on vista and adi1988b on vista and leopard cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92081-creative-x-fi-in-conjunction-with-integrated/#findComment-659949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asstastic Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 I have a Creative X-fi sound card and a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard and I am about to install 10.5.1. I am going to install it with vista on a second ahrd drive and want to use the x-fi for vista. Does anybody know if I can make the integrated sound work in OSX whithout having to take it out. Can I just enable the "automatic" setting in the bios where I choose if I want the integrated audio disable or not? Your OS is smart enough to handle multiple sound cards at once. You just have to select which one you want to use from the respective OS menus SystemPreferences->Sound or ControlPanel->Sounds/AudioDevices. You can also mix and match sometimes per program, for example I have Skype set up to use my laptop's internal microphone and speakers/headphones while the rest of Windows uses my external Creative USB soundcard. I can talk on skype using headphones while listening to music or watching a movie on 5.1 surround speakers at the same time, just to give an idea of the possibilities. Creative unfortunately does not write drivers for apple so you won't be able to use the x-fi on OSX. Though they did just release open source x-fi drivers for Linux so perhaps you'll see a port to osx in a year or so if lucky. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/92081-creative-x-fi-in-conjunction-with-integrated/#findComment-1082875 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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