Comments on: Product Review: Creative Labs Fatal1ty Headset

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By: Ronald Heft

Ronald Heft — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:29:32 +0000

Are you on Leopard, Stefan? Maybe it doesn't work with older versions of Tiger. If you are on Leopard, make sure you follow all of the DigitalRonyn's directions.

By: Jesse Altman

Jesse Altman — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:33:35 +0000

Stefan,

That is strange. It worked perfectly fine for me. I could not install the software but the microphone was working.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:25:31 +0000

Having applied the firmware update mentioned, I can report that the Creative Labs Fatal1ty Headset does NOT work properly in Mac OS X. That is, the microphone does not work at all.

By: DigitalRonyn

DigitalRonyn — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:56:46 +0000

Hey Jesse,

No problem at all.

We’re working in getting the firmware updater ported over to Mac as well (just for future reference).

By: David Zdinak

David Zdinak — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:27:12 +0000

Nice review, I was considering getting those Headphones at one point but a USB headset would be a downgrade, since I have a PCIe Fatal1ty XFi card. I would recommend Razer if you looking for another USB headset, their products are top notch and do well with music too.

By: Jesse Altman

Jesse Altman — Sun, 10 May 2009 04:29:49 +0000

Ryan, thanks for the comments. I’m excited to hear that Mac capability is being added to the headset. I realize since the headset is officially marketed as a gaming headset that Mac capability is not necessary essential. I will also be doing a firmware update, and I will update the article with what I find.

Once again, thanks for the comments and all the great information. I appreciate it!

UPDATE: The article is now updated.

By: DigitalRonyn

DigitalRonyn — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:07:05 +0000

Hi Jesse,

Thanks for the review!

I’m the product manager for the Gaming Headsets at Creative (Ryan Schlieper).

Just wanted to clarify a couple points for you that might help out your issue with the headset.

The X-Fi component of the product (the software that comes bundled with it) currently is not MAC compatible but we’ve got this slated to change shortly.

The microphone issue I believe might be caused by a mismatch of default frequency. If you go into your Audio Midi control panel and change the mic to 48,000 it should work. I believe right now it is defaulting in our firmware to 44,100 instead of the 48,000 that OSX is looking for. We made a change initially to the hardware to be compatible with Windows Vista. Our latest firmware (available for download on our website) fixes this and automatically will switch to your OS of choices default or native frequency.

Thanks again for the review and your comments on the product!

By: Jesse Altman

Jesse Altman — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:03:04 +0000

Thanks for the spell check

To be honest, I want to get a new headset but I have not yet started looking. If you have any good ideas, let me know! Only stipulation is that it must have a microphone.

By: Ronald Heft

Ronald Heft — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:39:40 +0000

What’s a “moise-canceling microphone”? :-p

Anyway, are you going to be keeping the headset or look for something else? I know you seemed pretty frustrated over the lack of Mac compatibility. If you do pick up something else, I’d love to hear what you’re looking at.