Creative X-Fi/Audigy [v1.10.01/v2.18.0004][10-09-2008]

[TwL]

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi - Latest drivers

Homepage: Creative
Download: v2.18.0004 XP/Vista - Majorgeeks Mirror

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.

This download supports the following audio devices only:

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty® Professional Series
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi

Added Features:
To find out the Product ID of your audio device and if it supports the following features in Windows XP, click here.

For systems using Windows Vista

* Dolby® Digital and DTS® decode re-established for sound cards that included decoding in their Windows XP drivers (Not applicable for products that included a 3rd party software DVD player license in the package).
* DVD-Audio playback re-established for sound cards that included the application in their Windows XP software suite (For Windows Vista 32-bit only).
Requires the latest Creative MediaSource DVD-Audio Player software. Click here to download.

Fixes:

* Resolves issue of system crash when switching to an unsupported sampling rate in Audio Creation Mode while Dolby Digital Live is enabled.

Requirements:

* Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005 or Windows XP MCE 2004
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above

Notes:

* Do not install this driver for Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio.
* To install this driver
1. Download the file onto your local hard disk.
2. Double-click the downloaded file.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen.

[Seawolf]

I am definately considering a CLabs card again now that they retracted the fee for ALchemy and got a decent PCI Express card out.

Although the question to me is how they'd get around PCI-Es latency issues, which could be a problem for audio. It's possible they were waiting for PCI Express 2.0 in that respect.

In any case, I may be in the market to find out later.

[TwL]

that's cool.. I'm actually also here considering some basic card to get some EAX levels out from sound. Honestly don't even know how that works I haven't ever in my life used anything else (after Sound Blaster 128 Live and SB AWE64), hehe..

but I know this much that always when I start a game there is some damn audio thing I cannot turn on at new box and that really bothers me. Got here decent headphones and 5.1 setups. with a bit more hifi style speakers.

[TwL]

Well, updated the latest which I did see online. Final versions of latest drivers should be there with mirror now.

and removed all beta stuff.. WHQL only as it seems better way to do this topic..