Creative Software Updates for Windows 8/7/Vista/XP


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The following topic is about the latest downloadable updates to bundled Creative SoundBlaster Software for Windows 7/Vista/XP. Go to last page for newest downloads. PM me for help if you need any.

Creative WaveStudio 7.10.24

Filesize: 14.03MB Download

Release date: 21 Jul 08

Creative MediaSource 5 Player/Organizer 5.20.23

Filesize: 38.41MB Download

Release date: 21 Jul 08

Creative MediaSource DVD-Audio Player 2.00.78

Filesize: 19.23MB Download

Release date: 18 Jul 08

Edited by Barney
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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Driver 2.18.0004

Filesize: 58.6MB Download

Release date: 30 Jul 08

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 system crash when switching to an unsupported sampling rate in Audio Creation Mode while Dolby Digital Live is enabled.

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

Notes:

  • Do not install this driver for Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio.
  • To install this driver
    • Download the file onto your local hard disk.
    • Double-click the downloaded file.
    • Follow the instructions on the screen.

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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium 2.17.0004

Filesize: 41.25MB Download

Release date: 22 Aug 08

Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect Pack for Titanium series 1.02.00

Filesize: 8.02MB Download

Release date: 22 Aug 08

Edited by pjak

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Driver Pack 1.01.0061

(contains Audio Control Panel 2.55.07, Console Launcher 2.60.28, and Creative ALchemy 1.20.03)

Filesize: 133.41MB Download

Release date: 29 Aug 08

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Bonus Software Pack 1.00.07

(contains Karaoke Player 2.00.65, System Information 1.10.13 and Volume Panel 2.20.64)

Filesize: 44.33MB Download

Release date: 2 Sep 08

Creative Sound Blaster Audigy series Driver BETA

Filesize: 34.92MB Download

Release date: 3 Sep 08

Edited by pjak
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Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Driver 2.18.0008

Filesize : 66.17 MB Download

Release date : 17 Dec 08

Sweet, thanks. Any info on a changelog?

Update: Computer hanged on shutting down while restarting. Hard rebooted now it seems like everything is working except CMSS (changes audio to go through all speakers when it'd otherwise only go through the front channels) which is bad because that's the only reason you'd have it. -_-

Update2:

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.

So it seems they changes something in the control panel and broke it in the process ehh.....

Edited by chAos972
why didnt you just edit your posts, unless you are trying to bump up your post count!!

as topic are months old, the edit button is not available.

If he edited it it wouldn't have bumped the topic I presume meaning noone would have seen the news of the new driver release.

yes, that's a good point also... this thread is updated as a service to others.

Sweet, thanks. Any info on a changelog? Update: Computer hanged on shutting down while restarting......

changelog is available at support.creative.com

Did you run the uninstaller (and reboot) before updating?

The installer/uninstaller path is either:

C:\AUDIO\Drivers\XFHX\setup.exe (for Windows XP)

C:\AUDIO\Drivers\SBXF\setup.exe (for Windows Vista)

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