Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Beta Driver DTS & DD support

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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

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.

http://ccftp.creative.com/manualdn/Drivers/AVP/10596/0x495B0DC2/SBXF_PCDRVBETA_US_2_18_0000.exe
 
InkZ said:
This fixed my Vista 64 bit crashes.
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Can I ask what problems you had?

I've got the X-Fi music and every so often (at least once every time i use my pc...) the system hangs and then resumes? Mainly when playing .mp3's :(

I'm on Vista x64.

SW.
 
I installed them along with the beta console launcher and every sound played about 1.5x speed...the frequency was all high...sampled some Kansas and Michael Jackson and it sounded like they were singing chipmunks!

I cleared everything out and reinstalled the beta drivers and it works fine...I assume the culprit was the new beta console so beware.
 
Some got issues unless a clean install, I was fine with a upgrade.

CMSS is broke, mines is on up mix mode regardless, WMP gives a error when you try to play a .WMV until you accept its MSG to turn off X-FI enhancements (the broken CMSS).

The sound is a lot better and far louder at lower Volume settings, even the BASS for 1st time is nearly natural not a thump or clunk.
 
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Actually sod it, I cba messing with CREATIVE beta drivers and risking my OS !
 
I installed just the beta driver today (not the console) and now Windows Media player doesn't recognise any of my media... Is this normal :D

The driver seems okay on my system, but I'll have to go back to the regular driver if I can't fix this MP issue.

SW.
 
I get this for everything...

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SW.
 
You have to goto control panel/sounds. Apparently on opening it you will receive a message about problematic sound enhancements, and asks if you would like to disable them. Choose yes, and you should be able to play music again.

It's down to Creative's driver team breaking CMSS3D in the beta driver. Quite how they managed to do that when it worked fine in previous releases is beyond me, but they have proven their incompetence before.
 
They spent all that time making up a nice new driver selection website and the drivers are beta :eek:

I won't be buying Creative cards again when this one dies....
 
hohum said:
To be fair, their drivers have always been beta (or alpha, depending on how bitter you're feeling).
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Lol very true, I'm on Vista 64 bit with 4gb RAM and the last driver release seem to work fine so I'm not changing until the next release
 
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