@alexkvx10: uninstall your Omega drivers and install the latest official final Geforce 175.19 from this page

Guys... I think i have pinpointed the problem. Earlier i began to get suspicious of my soundcard casuing the problem so i disabled it and enabled on board sound and got latest drivers for it. I ran Assassins Creed and got to play for a good while. Hell, i even got to close it myself So i think that is the prooblem, i will try different drivers for the creative card and test them. The ones i was using were beta drivers. I will confirm once the problem has been solved , what a fotunate turn of events ^^

Still, install 175.19.
From X-Fi back to onboard sound is no win. What model X-Fi exactly is it?

And defragment, Diskeeper Lite (freeware)

X-Fi Xtreme Music, i am searching for different drivers but the creative links arent working.

Yeah, their website sucks right now, no direct linking to the correct drivers anymore...

You want this one:

quote:

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Driver 2.15.0006
Filesize: 63.05MB Download Hide Details
Release date: 14 Mar 08
This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows Vista™ and Windows® XP support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ series of audio devices. For more details, read the rest of this web release note.
File Name: SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_15_0006.exe

Start here: http://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.asp...atName=Sound+Blaster

at the bottom select XP, and Driver, (not beta)

Ugh... Drivers drive me mad. When i uninstall the creative drivers i restart and then use driversweeper. I then start the installation of the new drivers and it says "setup has found newer version of drivers on your system" buti continue with install then restart but the computer still doesnt recognise the drivers. "No audio device found" it says and in device manager it has the ! beside it.

Why cant they just uninstall properly -.-.

How can i completely eradicate the creative drivers, i used both driver sweeper and driver cleaner pro.

Umm... first install the drivers from the CD you got with the card. Then install the downloaded drivers over it. (in XP it requires previous drivers installed)

I got the drivers installed ok and went to test assassins creed. I now get a BSOD code 0x0000000a
(IRQL not less or equal) i got it twice, should i try different drivers again ?

You sure you didn't forget to disable onboard sound before installing the X-Fi drivers?

yep i disabled it in the bios.
I got the BSOD again there now and on restart i got another BSOD saying BAD_POOL_HEADER. I will disable the X Fi agian and try on board to check if it works.

After playing on the on board sound it crashed aswell... Twice. But it was a different "Assassins Creed has encountered a problem" crash, which is another problem which needs to be fixed even if i get this soundcard issue sorted.

What motherboard exactly you have, Alex?

It is An ECS Nforce4 A939, i have latest bios for it.

Overclocked your system, or running at stock now?

Have you tried the X-Fi into another slot? I experienced the wierdest problems when i had my X-Fi in an apparently 'wrong' slot on my Maximus Formula. It's perfectly happy in the bottom slot.

I am running at stock at the minute, earlier i was overclocking my system as a test but now its back to stock. Could that cause instability now?

And my X-Fi was changed into a different slot to solve the IRQ problem but it didnt fix it. If i move it into any other slot something shares with the graphics card

Yeah sorry i read on page 1 you already tried that.
No antivirus running on the background?

Can you find related error logs in right-click This Computer > Manage > Logs > System?

Oh, btw after you updated (corrected) your X-Fi, i would suggest to uninstall / reboot PC / reinstall Assassin's Creed, just for the sake of it.
Your current DARE.INI file, what does it say, could you post it?

Here are the two "Assassins Creed has stopped Working" logs :
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 07/07/2008
Time: 22:45:18
User: N/A
Computer: ALEX-9LGOLTJVOO
Description:
Faulting application assassinscreed_dx9.exe, version 1.0.2.1, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x304bfd62.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 73 73 ure ***
0018: 61 73 73 69 6e 73 63 72 assinscr
0020: 65 65 64 5f 64 78 39 2e eed_dx9.
0028: 65 78 65 20 31 2e 30 2e exe 1.0.
0030: 32 2e 31 20 69 6e 20 75 2.1 in u
0038: 6e 6b 6e 6f 77 6e 20 30 nknown 0
0040: 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 61 .0.0.0 a
0048: 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 t offset
0050: 20 33 30 34 62 66 64 36 304bfd6
0058: 32 0d 0a 2..

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Error
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1000
Date: 07/07/2008
Time: 22:51:20
User: N/A
Computer: ALEX-9LGOLTJVOO
Description:
Faulting application assassinscreed_dx9.exe, version 1.0.2.1, faulting module d3d9.dll, version 5.3.2600.3311, fault address 0x000445c6.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 61 73 73 ure ***
0018: 61 73 73 69 6e 73 63 72 assinscr
0020: 65 65 64 5f 64 78 39 2e eed_dx9.
0028: 65 78 65 20 31 2e 30 2e exe 1.0.
0030: 32 2e 31 20 69 6e 20 64 2.1 in d
0038: 33 64 39 2e 64 6c 6c 20 3d9.dll
0040: 35 2e 33 2e 32 36 30 30 5.3.2600
0048: 2e 33 33 31 31 20 61 74 .3311 at
0050: 20 6f 66 66 73 65 74 20 offset
0058: 30 30 30 34 34 35 63 36 000445c6
0060: 0d 0a ..


And here is the BSOD ones, i got a new one there now called 0x0000000D1 i think (DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS OR EQUAL)this is driving me nuts.


Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 08/07/2008
Time: 00:41:37
User: N/A
Computer: ALEX-9LGOLTJVOO
Description:
Error code 100000d1, parameter1 c9837320, parameter2 00000002, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 c9837320.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 64 100000d
0020: 31 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 1 Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 63 39 eters c9
0030: 38 33 37 33 32 30 2c 20 837320,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 32 00000002
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 30 2c 20 63 39 38 33 00, c983
0050: 37 33 32 30 7320

Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 07/07/2008
Time: 22:33:58
User: N/A
Computer: ALEX-9LGOLTJVOO
Description:
Error code 00000019, parameter1 00000020, parameter2 e2fca000, parameter3 e2fca030, parameter4 fa060400.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 31 0000001
0020: 39 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d 9 Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30 eters 00
0030: 30 30 30 30 32 30 2c 20 000020,
0038: 65 32 66 63 61 30 30 30 e2fca000
0040: 2c 20 65 32 66 63 61 30 , e2fca0
0048: 33 30 2c 20 66 61 30 36 30, fa06
0050: 30 34 30 30 0400


Event Type: Error
Event Source: System Error
Event Category: (102)
Event ID: 1003
Date: 07/07/2008
Time: 22:17:45
User: N/A
Computer: ALEX-9LGOLTJVOO
Description:
Error code 1000000a, parameter1 00000033, parameter2 0000001c, parameter3 00000000, parameter4 804d56fa.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 53 79 73 74 65 6d 20 45 System E
0008: 72 72 6f 72 20 20 45 72 rror Er
0010: 72 6f 72 20 63 6f 64 65 ror code
0018: 20 31 30 30 30 30 30 30 1000000
0020: 61 20 20 50 61 72 61 6d a Param
0028: 65 74 65 72 73 20 30 30 eters 00
0030: 30 30 30 30 33 33 2c 20 000033,
0038: 30 30 30 30 30 30 31 63 0000001c
0040: 2c 20 30 30 30 30 30 30 , 000000
0048: 30 30 2c 20 38 30 34 64 00, 804d
0050: 35 36 66 61 56fa

I never got all these BSODS earlier before i changed my soundcard driver. When i did change the drivers they appeared. At the same time i also updated my video card drivers. Now even when i disable my X Fi and enable on board sound i still get BSODs, could the problem have no shifted to the graphics driver as I suspected in the first place?
I am also wondering if the time i got to play assassins creed after disabling the x fi and enabing on board just a stroke of luck? I feel i am going back to square one here.
Here is the DARE.ini as asked.

[Renderer DS3D Options]
DS3D_CACHE_SIZE=2097152
NO_OPTIMISATION_SOUND_CARDS=
DISABLE_OPTIMISATION=FALSE
[Sound Manager Options]
NB_AUDIBLE_VOICES=48

I got another BSOD, 0x0000000d1,this time mentioning ALCXWDM.sys which i found out to be the realtek ac 97 on board drivers. My god! does nothing work :S

As usual, those error reports are not very informative to us humans.

I have the feeling it is caused by the Creative beta driver and Driversweeper.
Only one missing DX-related file is enough to crash the whole system.
You could try to completely uninstall the Creative X-Fi (disable antivirus- and systemprotection programs via msconfig!)

1. Uninstall Creative drivers through the control panel -> add/remove programs

2. Reboot into safe mode (press F8 at boot)

3. Enable show hidden devices

4. Open a command window with admin privileges
-Run these commands from a command prompt:
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
start devmgmt.msc

5. Uninstall all audio adapters listed (present or non-present/hidden - they appear slightly faded); make sure to check the box to remove driver files if possible

6. Turn off PC, take out the X-Fi

7. Reboot normally. Let windows finish finding new hardware

8. Power down and plug in the X-Fi card

9. Boot and let windows finish finding new hardware

10. Defragment

11. Install the Creative drivers from the CD

12. Install the updated drivers you downloaded

I hope this helps.