Creative Tools and Drivers Updates

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Creative have released new drivers and tools.

Creative MediaSource version 1.00.54:

Creative EAX Console version 1.00.54:

Creative Speaker Settings version 1.00.54:

Audigy 2 Driver Pack AUD2DRVL11021217:

Creative DVD-Audio Player version 1.00.55:

Creative SoundFont Bank Manager version 1.00.14:

Download: Creative Tools and Drivers Updates

News source: Warp2Search

New Features or Enhancements

ASIO 2.0 support - direct monitoring
Multi-channel "What You Hear" recording

Fixes

Improved multi-channel playback performance.
Improved Advanced Resolution playback and recording functionality.
Improved functionality of 5.1 and 6.1 channel decoding in some software DVD players that output only 2 channels despite 5.1/6.1 channel selection.
Improved uninstall procedure for game port device in Windows 98 SE and Me.
Headphones usage for 192 KHz DVD-Audio tracks.
Full functionality of Bass and Treble sliders during DVD-Audio or Advanced Resolution audio playback.
Improved response in applications when enabling or disabling Digital output.
Improved multi-channel audio playback in Doom 3.
Successful launch of Motorcross Madness 2 when Welcome Menu or DVD-Audio Player are launched.

#1 Fotix on 20 Dec 2002 - 19:12

Hope these work on the SBLive too, gonna give it a shot. EDIT: Installed. WHQL certified as well. All seems ok. ::knock on wood::

Last edited by 6042 on 20 Dec 2002 - 19:56

(2 replies) #2 RobertH on 20 Dec 2002 - 19:27

[quote]Requirements - Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows XP - [b]Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 audio card[/b] [/quote] Aparentley not no.

#2.1 pHuzi0n on 20 Dec 2002 - 19:36

Obviously you're not very knowledged about Creative's SB drivers. You can extract them with winrar (probably a few other compression programs too) and then run the setup program in the drivers folder and it will install fine. This has been the case ever since Creative decided to have a unified code base. However, they've only been releasing the drivers for new cards so if you [b]ever[/b] want updated drivers then you'll have to do what I described above.

#2.2 Fotix on 20 Dec 2002 - 19:37

All Audigy drivers have worked on the SBLive so far, so I'll report back on this latest endeavor.

#3 pHuzi0n on 20 Dec 2002 - 19:39

I'm not going to touch these. I don't trust something that's only on their asia site and which isn't WHQL signed either (NFS is a very unstable game and the slightest driver instability will cause it to crash).

#4 modem on 20 Dec 2002 - 21:00

What is the version number that is showing for you all after you installed these Audigy 2 drivers? I tried to install them via c:documents and settings...temp and noticed when installing them manually I get told they are the same version I am currently running from the Audigy 1 package (5.12.1.253). Can someone verify if these "new" drivers are the same version number as that?

#5 Franky601 on 20 Dec 2002 - 22:13

These drivers are more recent, they are dated December 5, and the version is 5.12.01.0323, and the last available were 5.12.01.0283

#6 Chicane-UK on 20 Dec 2002 - 23:12

I think I will give these drivers a miss... Took me bloody ages to get a set of Creative Drivers working properly under Windows XP.. these ones work great, and they'll stay like that for now

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