www.creative.com\/support<\/a><\/p>\nDriver Updates and Applications for Creative Audio Products
\nYes, these are actually worth reading. Check out the list of recent driver updates to get the most out of your Sound Blaster products.<\/p>\n
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Pack<\/p>\n
This download supports the following audio devices only:
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty\u00ae Champion Series
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium<\/p>\n
Added Features or Enhancements:
\n* Supports Dolby\u00ae Digital Live and DTS Connect. Requires the Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect software pack.
\n* Improves microphone volume level.<\/p>\n
Resolves the following issues:
\n* Changing speaker configuration in Console Launcher causes Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium to stop working.
\n* Unable to install newer version of driver over older version.
\n* Installer detects identical version of driver in system even though driver package contains a newer version.
\n* Unable to launch Get PowerDVD\u00ae application.
\n* Low speaker volume in Windows Vista with Service Pack 1.<\/p>\n
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy series Driver<\/p>\n
This download supports the following audio devices only:
\n* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy including Platinum and Platinum eX series
\n* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 including Platinum, Platinum eX, and Value series
\n* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS including Platinum and Platinum Pro series
\n* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro and Sound Blaster Audigy 4
\n* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA<\/p>\n
Added Features:
\nFor systems using Windows Vista
\n* Dolby\u00ae Digital and DTS\u00ae decode re-established for sound cards that included decoding in their Windows XP drivers.
\n* 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.<\/p>\n
Fixes:
\n* Resolves issues of intermittent and random application\/system crash when playing games or running applications that use EAX\u00ae, DirectSound\u00ae, OpenAL and\/or ASIO features.
\n* Resolves issue of system crash when running DTM – Device Path Exerciser test in Windows Vista 64-bit.
\n* Resolves issue of volume mapping leading to very soft volume level in systems using Windows Vista with Service Pack 1.
\n* Resolves issue with distortion and noise occurring in systems with 4 GB of RAM or greater.
\n* Resolves issue with OpenAL playback of multichannel formats.
\n* Resolves issue of system crash when performing immediate system shutdown after exiting Battlefield 2.
\n* Optimizations to OpenAL to improve performance in Unreal Tournament 3, DiRT, and other games.<\/p>\n
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Driver<\/p>\n
This download supports the following audio devices only:
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty\u00ae Professional Series
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi<\/p>\n
Added Features or Enhancements:
\n* Supports Dolby\u00ae Digital Live
\n* Supports DTS\u00ae Connect (For Windows Vista only). Requires the latest Creative Console Launcher application.<\/p>\n
To get the above mentioned features you will need to purchase the Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect software pack.<\/p>\n
For systems using Windows Vista
\n* 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).
\n* 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.<\/p>\n
Fixes:
\n* Resolves issue of audio popping when playing AC-3 Wave files or using Dolby Digital Live via the digital output on Windows Vista.
\n* Resolves Audio Control Panel issue of incorrect X-Fi CMSS\u00ae-3D behavior while using Audio Creation Mode.<\/p>\n
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium Series Linux 32-bit \/ 64-bit Driver Source Release<\/p>\n
This download is a source release driver providing Linux\u00ae 32-bit \/ 64-bit OS support for Creative Sound Blaster\u00ae X-Fi\u2122 and X-Fi Titanium series of audio devices.<\/p>\n
Take note of the following:<\/p>\n
* THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED DRIVER. There is no technical support for this driver.
\n* We recommend that only experienced users install this driver. Do not install this driver on a system used to perform critical tasks.<\/p>\n
This download is intended for the following audio devices only:
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty\u00ae Champion Series
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
\n* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic<\/p>\n
Current release features:
\n* ALSA PCM Playback
\n* ALSA Record
\n* ALSA Mixer<\/p>\n
Known issues:
\n* External I\/O modules are not supported in this driver release.
\n* Applications from the installation CD of your Sound Blaster audio device will not work with this driver.<\/p>\n
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