* Resolves issue with distortion and noise occuring in systems with 4 GB of RAM or greater. * Resolves issue of volume mapping leading to very soft volume level in systems using Windows Vista with Service Pack 1. 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. Requires the latest Creative MediaSource DVD-Audio Player Beta software. * DVD-Audio playback re-established for sound cards that included the application in their Windows XP software suite (For Windows Vista 32-bit only).
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). 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 if your audio device supports the following features in Windows XP, click here.
When this happens, user should install the latest Sound Blaster X-Fi series driver available. * Users who are looking for stable drivers should wait for the final release. Do not install this driver on a system used to perform critical tasks.
* We recommend that only experienced users install this driver. There is no technical support for this driver. Take note of the following: * THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED BETA DRIVER. For more details, read the rest of this web release note. 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.