Creative launches new audio drivers for Vista

t0pD4wG · Mar 8, 2007, 02:31 PM

Here are the Newest drivers for X-FI users with Vista
[COLOR=#0000ff]Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Vista Driver 2.13.0012[/COLOR] ([COLOR=#222222]41.54 MB) [/COLOR]

This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ 64-bit and Windows Vista 32-bit 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 XtremeMusic,
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
Creative Sound Blaster Elite Pro

Current release features:

X-Fi Crystalizer™
X-Fi CMSS®-3D
MIDI Playback
EAX® Effects
PCM stereo output through optical out
Line-in connectivity
Recording capabilities.

Known issues:

This driver does not support the following:
- Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS™ signals
- DVD-Audio
- DirectSound®-based EAX games
- 6.1 speaker mode.
SPDIF passthrough is supported on Vista 32-bit only.
Applications from the original Sound Blaster X-Fi CD will not work with this download.

Requirements:

Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows Vista 32-bit
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above.

Necrosis · Mar 8, 2007, 05:57 PM

Has anyone tried these yet?

Judas · Mar 8, 2007, 06:12 PM

yeah i'm kinda interested in how these turn out....

i'd give em a whirl... but i'm to lazy to screw around with a creative X-FI fatality card atm.... pos....

jasonbourne · Mar 8, 2007, 06:23 PM

things improved alot here ,at least my mp3s doesnt sound like crap anymore and gaming is far better now,but still no dts support .

ChaosMinionX · Mar 8, 2007, 10:32 PM

No XP lovin?

EcPercy · Mar 9, 2007, 12:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChaosMinionX

No XP lovin?

The XP drivers are better than the Vista (beta) stuff that they are working on.

I don't have an X-Fi, but I am a little disappointed that it's taking this long to get a half-way decent driver for my Audigy 4.

I know one thing for sure. I will not be buying any more Creative products given their lack of decent support.

Someday, I will build a new machine and I am just gonna make sure that the mobo has on-board 8.1 because realtek has had drivers available for Vista for months already.

coldfrontt · Mar 9, 2007, 03:16 PM

There are also new Audigy drivers as well.

apoch003 · Mar 11, 2007, 07:55 AM

I honestly believe these are just repacked beta drivers. Creative needs to have a class action lawsuit going to get some decent drivers out in Vista.

If you guys want to game in Quake4 or Prey, go to your windows/system32 folders and copy the following files into your "base" folders for those games...
CT_oal.dll
wrap_aol.dll

Then, make a copy of the CT_oal.dll into another CLEAN folder and rename it to OpenAL32.dll

Finally, copy that new OpenAL32.dll (which is the same info as CT_oal.dll, I know) into the same base folder. So essentially, you have the same file, just named as two different files. (I don't know why this works, but it does).

jasonbourne · Mar 11, 2007, 08:25 AM

gosh whats happening here ??

~~DudeBoyz~~ · Mar 11, 2007, 09:20 AM

What about Audigy series or other cards in their lineup? Are they just givin' up on those?

Necrosis · Mar 11, 2007, 10:21 AM

What Apoch is talking about is Alchemy.

http://preview.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx

You folks should also check this out: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/audio-ge...available.html

~~DudeBoyz~~ · Mar 11, 2007, 11:43 AM

I'm beginning to see the appeal of onboard sound - much less complicated.

I'm still learning just how sucky upgrading to Vista is gonna be for some folks too. Changes to the video stuff, wacked out OpenGL changes, audio changes, etc. Man, what a pain.

apoch003 · Mar 11, 2007, 06:16 PM

Heh.... Sorry. The board refused to accept my quickpost option and I got frustrated and kept hitting the button. Thanks to the moderator who repaired the damage.

Mazuko · Mar 13, 2007, 05:24 PM

Now if only they would fix input audio issues...otherwise at least I don't get repeated x-fi driver crashes.

dipstick · Mar 13, 2007, 09:58 PM

Cant say i notice any difference with these drivers. I was starting to hate my X-Fi too until I dropped my pci latency from 64 to 32 in the bios. It fixed all my popping and sound drops in games and music. Might be worth a look if you have the option?

@apoch003. What troubles do you have with Prey? The Steam version runs just fine for me

apoch003 · Mar 13, 2007, 10:44 PM

Huh? I'm not having problems with Prey.

Zardon · Mar 13, 2007, 11:43 PM

about time. my usb audigy 2 NX was apparently getting drivers in December, then end of january, then "1st quarter".

Now they have arrived, they are limited and basically suck. Amazed how such a large company as creative can mess so much up. Their "offical" support forums arent really very positive right now.

Zelig · Mar 14, 2007, 01:30 AM

I must be the only person satisfied with these drivers for my Audigy 2 ZS. Installed drivers in Vista, disabled CMSS, and my stereo music and surround DVDs both work as well as ever.

No real idea about gaming though, only game I've played recently is Civ IV, which sound works fine for...

dipstick · Mar 14, 2007, 02:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by apoch003

Huh? I'm not having problems with Prey.

My bad then; misunderstood your previous post

DJShamrock · Mar 14, 2007, 02:44 AM

These drivers suck as bad as the betas. My X-FI has officially been pulled after screwing with it for a year. Back to onboard, which doesn't support 5.1 in Vista, but at least it isn't raping my machine.

Mar 8, 2007, 02:31 PM	#1
t0pD4wG DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: PA Posts: 124 Rep Power: 0	Creative launches new audio drivers for Vista Here are the Newest drivers for X-FI users with Vista [COLOR=#0000ff]Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Vista Driver 2.13.0012[/COLOR] ([COLOR=#222222]41.54 MB) [/COLOR] This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ 64-bit and Windows Vista 32-bit 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 XtremeMusic, Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Creative Sound Blaster Elite Pro Current release features: X-Fi Crystalizer™ X-Fi CMSS®-3D MIDI Playback EAX® Effects PCM stereo output through optical out Line-in connectivity Recording capabilities. Known issues: This driver does not support the following: Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS™ signals DVD-Audio DirectSound®-based EAX games 6.1 speaker mode. SPDIF passthrough is supported on Vista 32-bit only. Applications from the original Sound Blaster X-Fi CD will not work with this download. Requirements: Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows Vista 32-bit Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above. __________________ Windows Vista Basic 32 bit Asus A8N5X Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 Dual Core Seagate 250 Gig Hd Maxtor 80 Gig Hd EVGA 8800GTS 640MB 2 Gig pc2700 Kinston Memory Creative X-FI Fatality Extreme Gamer 500 Watt Antec PSU

Mar 8, 2007, 06:23 PM	#4
jasonbourne DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: great yarmouth uk Posts: 1,082 Rep Power: 0	things improved alot here ,at least my mp3s doesnt sound like crap anymore and gaming is far better now,but still no dts support . __________________ http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...asonBourne.jpg

Mar 8, 2007, 10:32 PM	#5
ChaosMinionX USB 3 dot oh Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 1,911 Rep Power: 47 System Specs	No XP lovin? __________________ ::Heatware:: How you can help DriverHeaven by using Digg!

Mar 9, 2007, 03:16 PM	#7
coldfrontt DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: canada Posts: 248 Rep Power: 0	There are also new Audigy drivers as well. __________________ [color=blue]TANSTAAFL![/color]

Mar 11, 2007, 07:55 AM	#8
apoch003 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: usa Posts: 214 Rep Power: 0	I honestly believe these are just repacked beta drivers. Creative needs to have a class action lawsuit going to get some decent drivers out in Vista. If you guys want to game in Quake4 or Prey, go to your windows/system32 folders and copy the following files into your "base" folders for those games... CT_oal.dll wrap_aol.dll Then, make a copy of the CT_oal.dll into another CLEAN folder and rename it to OpenAL32.dll Finally, copy that new OpenAL32.dll (which is the same info as CT_oal.dll, I know) into the same base folder. So essentially, you have the same file, just named as two different files. (I don't know why this works, but it does). Last edited by apoch003; Mar 12, 2007 at 11:10 PM.

Mar 8, 2007, 05:57 PM	#2
Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	Has anyone tried these yet?

Mar 11, 2007, 08:25 AM	#9
jasonbourne DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: great yarmouth uk Posts: 1,082 Rep Power: 0	gosh whats happening here ?? __________________ http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...asonBourne.jpg

Mar 11, 2007, 09:20 AM	#10
~~DudeBoyz~~ banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,677 Rep Power: 0	What about Audigy series or other cards in their lineup? Are they just givin' up on those?

Mar 11, 2007, 10:21 AM	#11
Necrosis HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 8,838 Rep Power: 131 System Specs	What Apoch is talking about is Alchemy. http://preview.creativelabs.com/alchemy/default.aspx You folks should also check this out: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/audio-ge...available.html

Mar 11, 2007, 11:43 AM	#12
~~DudeBoyz~~ banned Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: USA Posts: 1,677 Rep Power: 0	I'm beginning to see the appeal of onboard sound - much less complicated. I'm still learning just how sucky upgrading to Vista is gonna be for some folks too. Changes to the video stuff, wacked out OpenGL changes, audio changes, etc. Man, what a pain.

Mar 11, 2007, 06:16 PM	#13
apoch003 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: usa Posts: 214 Rep Power: 0	Heh.... Sorry. The board refused to accept my quickpost option and I got frustrated and kept hitting the button. Thanks to the moderator who repaired the damage.

Mar 13, 2007, 05:24 PM	#14
Mazuko DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Fredericksburg, VA Posts: 1,008 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Now if only they would fix input audio issues...otherwise at least I don't get repeated x-fi driver crashes. __________________ E-bay feedback: http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAP...me=STRK:ME:UFS

Mar 13, 2007, 09:58 PM	#15
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Cant say i notice any difference with these drivers. I was starting to hate my X-Fi too until I dropped my pci latency from 64 to 32 in the bios. It fixed all my popping and sound drops in games and music. Might be worth a look if you have the option? @apoch003. What troubles do you have with Prey? The Steam version runs just fine for me

Mar 13, 2007, 10:44 PM	#16
apoch003 DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: usa Posts: 214 Rep Power: 0	Huh? I'm not having problems with Prey.

Mar 13, 2007, 11:43 PM	#17
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	about time. my usb audigy 2 NX was apparently getting drivers in December, then end of january, then "1st quarter". Now they have arrived, they are limited and basically suck. Amazed how such a large company as creative can mess so much up. Their "offical" support forums arent really very positive right now.

Mar 14, 2007, 01:30 AM	#18
Zelig HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 3,187 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	I must be the only person satisfied with these drivers for my Audigy 2 ZS. Installed drivers in Vista, disabled CMSS, and my stereo music and surround DVDs both work as well as ever. No real idea about gaming though, only game I've played recently is Civ IV, which sound works fine for... __________________ --

Mar 14, 2007, 02:44 AM	#20
DJShamrock DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Tennessee but from NY Posts: 206 Rep Power: 37 System Specs	These drivers suck as bad as the betas. My X-FI has officially been pulled after screwing with it for a year. Back to onboard, which doesn't support 5.1 in Vista, but at least it isn't raping my machine. __________________ My rap group. http://www.myspace.com/waxingpoetix