has anyone else run into this issue? is there a fix to it?
to describe the issue:
i recently bought/installed a x-fi elite pro. after that, the sound would sometimes just randomly cut out for a bit with the occasionally static-y sound. then after a while (amount of time varies, sometimes 10 seconds sometimes a minute or longer) the sound will come back and everything that i should've been hearing is now played as if to catch up on what it missed. it used to happen pretty often, then i disabled the motherboard's sound card and it seemed to be fixed, but it came back again. i figured out that it has to do with a memory leak from the creative drivers; i leave my computer on all the time and after a while audiodg.exe was using over 4 gigs of ram. this didn't happen before i installed the x-fi so i'm fairly certain that the x-fi is at fault.
so to ask again, is there a fix to this? if i restart my computer (or log off / log back on, same effect) it fixes itself since it starts over, but the memory usage still climbs over time.
