Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Driver 2.18.0008

Release date: 17 Dec 08 (VISTA AND XP DRIVERS)
This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows Vista® and Windows® XP support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ series of audio devices. 


File Name : SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0008.exe 

This download is a 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. 

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 the Product ID of your audio device and if it supports the following features in Windows XP, click here. 
For systems using Windows Vista 

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

Fixes: 

* Resolves issue of audio popping when playing AC-3 Wave files or using Dolby Digital Live via the digital output on Windows Vista. 
* Resolves Audio Control Panel issue of incorrect X-Fi CMSS®-3D behavior while using Audio Creation Mode. 

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 Windows XP MCE 2004 
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above