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

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At long last

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