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Friday, March 09, 2012

Windows 7 Soundblaster X-Fi Drivers

A very long time has passed since the last update so here's the final version of your Soundblaster X-Fi driver for Windows 7. Just follow the link below, pick your card from the list and it will link you to a download location. http://support.creative.com/kb/showarticle.aspx?sid=61105

While you're here, do you believe installing Creative's drivers makes any difference in sound quality? Do you actually use their drivers? Please leave a comment below.

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time 4:05 PM Friday, March 09, 2012 | 0 comments|

Monday, February 02, 2009

Windows 7 X-Fi Driver

If you already installed or are thinking about installing the beta version of Microsoft's latest Windows you will need some X-Fi drivers. You can install the Vista X-Fi drivers, but it would be better to get the ones written for Windows 7 so you won't run into more problems than necessary. Luckily Creative released a set of Soundblaster X-Fi Drivers for Windows 7.

Filename: SBXF_W7DRVBETA_US_2_18_0008.exe

This download is a beta driver providing Microsoft® Windows® 7 Beta support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ series of audio devices. For more details, read the rest of this web release note.

Take note of the following:

* THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED BETA DRIVER. There is no technical support for this driver.
* We recommend that only experienced users install this driver. Do not install this driver on a system used to perform critical tasks.
* Users who are looking for stable drivers should wait for the final release. When this happens, user should install the latest Sound Blaster X-Fi series driver available.

This download supports the following audio devices only:

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

Requirements:

* Microsoft Windows 7 Beta
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series audio devices listed above

Notes:

* To install this driver
1. Download the .exe file onto your local hard disk.
2. Double-click the downloaded file.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen.

As always, you can get the driver from Creative's site

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time 10:34 AM Monday, February 02, 2009 | 8 comments|

Sunday, June 22, 2008

New X-Fi Drivers

At the beginning of June Creative released a new set of X-Fi drivers for Windows XP and Windows Vista. It's an unsupported beta drivers release. If you don't feel comfortable with betas don't install this update.

Filename: SBXF_PCDRVBETA_US_2_18_0000.exe

This download is a beta 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.

Take note of the following:

* THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED BETA DRIVER. There is no technical support for this driver.
* We recommend that only experienced users install this driver. Do not install this driver on a system used to perform critical tasks.
* Users who are looking for stable drivers should wait for the final release. When this happens, user should install the latest Sound Blaster X-Fi series driver available.

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

Full release note after the break

Added Features:
To find out if your audio device supports the following features in Windows XP, click here.
For systems using Windows Vista

* Dolby® Digital and DTS® driver 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 Beta software. Click here to download.

Fixes:

* Resolves issues of intermittent and random application/system crash when playing games or running applications that use EAX®, DirectSound®, OpenAL and/or ASIO features.
* Resolves issue of volume mapping leading to very soft volume level in systems using Windows Vista with Service Pack 1.
* Resolves issue with distortion and noise occuring in systems with 4 GB of RAM or greater.

Known Issues:

* X-Fi CMSS®-3D feature is not available in Windows Vista 64-bit.

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 Window 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.

As always the latest X-Fi drivers can be downloaded from Creative's (updated) Support page here.

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time 12:49 AM Sunday, June 22, 2008 | 6 comments|

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Audigy + Vista + EAX = $9.99

It's not really about the X-Fi but I thought I'd share this bit of news with you: The Audigy Edition of Creative's ALchemy which "restores your Sound Blaster Audigy's ability to process EAX effects, 3D audio, sampling rate conversion and audio mixing for certain DirectSound3D games in Windows Vista" costs $9.99. Yea, nothing is free, not even EAX on an Audigy card.

Interested? Here you go. Comments are welcome

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time 1:16 PM Tuesday, July 03, 2007 | 2 comments|

Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer at bit-tech

The guys over at bit-tech have posted a pretty cool review of Creative's X-Fi XtremeGamer. Lots of good info for all those thinking about finally switching to a X-Fi soundcard.

The Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer is the new addition to a refreshed X-Fi range and is equivalent to your stripped down, super lean, bare basics X-Fi that still features all the necessary gaming additives. It still has the same X-Fi processor and 2MB of on-board memory cache necessary for processor operations, although it's missing the full 64MB X-RAM that's featured on the Fatal1ty and Elite Pro models.

You can read the whole interview at bit-tech.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Azuen X-Fi Prelude 7.1 Almost Here

The first third-party soundcard powered by the X-Fi chipset will be hitting the stores later this month. Auzuentech's Auzen X-Fi Prelude 7.1 will feature all solutions which come with Creative's soundcards including the X-Fi Crystalizer, X-RAM, EAX ADVANCED HD support and more. The card will also come with Dolby® Digital Live, DTS® Interactive and DTS NEO:PC™.

Scheduled for release near the end of June 2007, the Auzen X-FI™ Prelude 7.1 soundcard marks the first time Creative has permitted a third-party soundcard vendor to use the Creative X-FI™ chipset in its own soundcard design. It will fully support EAX 5.0 and have the same expandability as the Auzen X-Meridian™ 7.1.

You can read the whole press release here.

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time 9:03 AM Thursday, June 14, 2007 | 4 comments|