POSSIBLE BSOD Portcls fix for Creative X-fi's--NEEDS TESTING.

Ok, it seems that it works for me.

This is for Win7 x64 &
X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series

Here is what I did:
1. Uninstall all creative software(normal way - from control panel).
reboot
2. install driver sweeper 3.2.0 and clean all creative files
reboot
3. with driver sweeper clean the last remaining files
reboot
4. Install Creative Support Pack 2.5(made by Daniel_k)
reboot

After this everything worked ok in the game, but if I tried to go to the desktop(with the game opened) it was an instant BSOD.

5. registry fix as in the first post of this thread -

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Add a new STRING and name it DisableXRAM, and set it to a string value of 1.
If you have more than one PCI&VEN in there, do it for the other folder.

I have two folders with the same name so I added one string in each folder.
reboot

After all this I have been playing in act 1 and 2 for some hours and everything works. I can now also check the forums with the game opened etc. and no BSOD so far.

Hi!
I have win 7 64 bit and audigy 2.
I have a lot of BSOD , i can't use registry fix because audigy doesn't have this string.
GGG can you fix it?

I've an old Audigy 2 and have the same problem. I tried the fix, but unfortunately the registry doesn't have this string, like Hose says. I added it manually, but without apparent effect; still bsod'ing.

I've gotten used to playing with no sound now, but it's caused quite a few needless deaths since there's much better damage feedback with sound, so a fix would certainly be much appreciated.

I've got Creative Audigy 2 ZS running in windows xp sp3 with kx driver 3538m. I don't have any BSODs but the sound is glitched somehow, especially the sounds of footsteps are humming, there are some weird echoes and sounds of nearby monsters are not the same as with my on-board Realtek HD audio. I tried to install Daniel K's diver for audigy and it changed nothing.
Playing with kx dsp I found out that all the glitches are from the central channel; left and right channels are ok.
Now I play with on-board sound card but I'd like to have audigy's higher sound quality. Does anybody experience the same problems?

you guys sure that sdisableXRAM is required. Because sinde i have the beta drivers i dont even nedd this registry key to not getting bsod's.

At least in the last played 10 hrs or somth.

Thank you so much! I think it works!

Before that fix, i couldn't use Chrome + Poe on the same time and without Chrome after >1 hour i had bsod too.

Now i played 1,5 hours WITH Chrome. I could even tab out etc.

I guess you were right!

Edit: I had less BSOD i think! But at act 2 i got some after like 30-60 minutes.

So now i tried to don't use the x-fi at all and switch to my onboard-sound. This works! I could play for like 2 Hours at Act2...that's a record for me! And i leave on purpose!

So from now on, everytime i want to play poe, i will switch to my onboard-soundchip.

What are the details in the BSOD that people are getting?

I have an X-Fi (OEM xtrememusic) and I haven't noticed too many BSODs with PoE — at least any that I attribute to sound/sound-card being the culprit.

The regedit addition seems to have stopped the BSOD altogether but still getting crashes due to the use of X-Fi

Unless there is a known issue with Radeon 5900 cards, X-Fi seems to be the issue here

I only got a portcls BSOD one time that I know of and this fix didn't stop the many other BSOD's I was getting related to Xi-Fi Titanium. The beta drivers have seemed to help though instead of a BSOD when running from act 2 village to dark forest it crashed client.exe without a BSOD.