Creative ALchemy (X-Fi Edition) 1.00.30

[+Tantawi Subscriber²]

This download is an application for Creative Sound Blaster? X-Fi? series of audio devices. It restores 3D audio and EAX? effects for certain DirectSound?3D games in Microsoft? Windows Vista?.

This download supports the following audio devices only:

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty? Pro

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook

Fixes:

* Enables the DirectSound3D game audio to be processed by your Sound Blaster X-Fi to deliver EAX effects, 3D audio spatialization, sample rate conversion and hardware audio mixing. Without this, most DirectSound3D games will be reduced to stereo output without any EAX effects.

* Supports an additional 42 DirectSound3D games.

Requirements:

* Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows Vista 32-bit

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi audio device listeTo find out more about Creative ALchemy or view the list of DirectSound3D games supported, check: http://www.soundblaster.com/alchemy/uDownload:load: http://ccftp.creative.com/manualdn/Applica..._LB_1_00_30.exe

[Glowstick]

Creative's marketting is so good at lieing, they don't even blush anymore. They're basically saying that Vista can't do more than stereo. Also, most games that aren't sponsored by Creative use software mixers. It has a reason why game developers don't default to hardware anymore.

[ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm]

anyone know why microsoft decided to mess with stuff that worked fine?

[EL1TE]

Creative is a joke.

The Audigy version is $10.

And why? because they only want to sell new cards, aka X-Fi.

:alien:

[Unimatrix Xero]

X-Fi owners get this free so what the problem?

[EL1TE]

X-Fi owners get this free so what the problem?

Creative doesn't mean X-Fi, means Sound Blaster, which means Audigy, X-Fi and Live!.

And for Audigy cards you need to Pay. Got it?

[spaceelf]

I still can't believe how many people are that annoyed about a $10 app on a card that Creative is unlikely to sell anymore.

Sure, you can still buy them. But you can still buy MMX Pentiums, and I doubt Intel is developing anything for those either...

And they're not lying at all, it's worded perfectly. Most titles that use DS3D will revert to stereo in Vista. It's a hardcoded limitation due to the fact that there is no DS3D in Vista.

Vista can certainly do more than stereo, just not with DS3D.

[Unimatrix Xero]

yea i know u gotta pay for the audigy card which i think is a little unfair, my previous post wasnt a dig at you, i just didnt see the problem for the X-FI cards as its free.

ohh well people assusming that im taking a dig..

[EL1TE]

AUZENTECH, " Dolby Digital Live " Coming 12/21/07 for X-fi Prelude

http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/bo...essage.id=28163

SB PRO -> SB 128 -> SB Live 5.1 -> X-Fi XtremeMusic -> INTEGRATED SOUND?

LOL! But maybe this will be true in a near future... :D

[spaceelf]

yea i know u gotta pay for the audigy card which i think is a little unfair, my previous post wasnt a dig at you, i just didnt see the problem for the X-FI cards as its free.

ohh well people assusming that im taking a dig..

Nah I'm irritable cause I'm hungry, was working, and its a holiday. Triple negative.

sorry

[Eric Veteran]

X-Fi owners get this free so what the problem?

The chips are identical. There's no reason they couldn't have given this to Audigy owners, too.

anyone know why microsoft decided to mess with stuff that worked fine?

It didn't work fine... Sound drivers were a big problem with system stability. That's why Apple didn't put direct access to the audio hardware in OSX either. ;)

[spaceelf]

True dat. DirectSound needed either a major overhaul or to be scrapped, and they decided to scrap it. It was based on what ten-fifteen year old tech?

Added bonus, they're singlehandedly responsible for destroying Creative Labs stranglehold on gaming audio. That alone would be my top reason...

[+Tantawi Subscriber²]

The chips are identical. There's no reason they couldn't have given this to Audigy owners, too.

X-Fi and Audigy chips are far from identical: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster

But I still agree it's very stupid from Creative to make Audigy users pay for it.

[spaceelf]

I'm not going to make a new topic, but ALchemy 1.0.0.35 is available for Audigy users....just downloaded it.

[Argi]

I'm not going to make a new topic, but ALchemy 1.0.0.35 is available for Audigy users....just downloaded it.

Don't see it on site or auto-update.

[nekrosoft13]

wow, all you whiners are pathetic

creative restored what MS broke in all DirectSound based games, and people still bitch and whine about it

[spaceelf]

.35 is on my hard drive and installed, and I didn't use the auto update, so I dunno what to tell you.

[rajputwarrior]

and this is THE reason i am still on XP. my x-fi sucks in vista

[spaceelf]

and this is THE reason i am still on XP. my x-fi sucks in vista

Supposedly it's a lot better with the latest drivers, but not having an X-Fi, I wouldn't know.

All I know is my Audigy 2 is a lot better with the latest X-Fi drivers...sigh

[blunden]

I still haven't seen any mentioning of the 1.00.35 version.

[spaceelf]

*shrug* neither have I but I downloaded it direct from Creative, after the .30 for X-Fi came out, just to check, and it was .35.

[blunden]

*shrug* neither have I but I downloaded it direct from Creative, after the .30 for X-Fi came out, just to check, and it was .35.

Do you have a link for it?

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

and this is THE reason i am still on XP. my x-fi sucks in vista

why?

mine is great in Vista. i havent had a single issue. i also installed an earlier version of Alchemy a few months ago, and it works perfectly. i dont see what people are bitching about.

[spaceelf]

Assuming you bought it, it's in the email you got when you bought it. http://www.creative.com/cmsredirect.asp?ac...=4&pack=AL2

[blunden]

Assuming you bought it, it's in the email you got when you bought it. http://www.creative.com/cmsredirect.asp?ac...=4&pack=AL2

Thanks. Never thought to look in there. :p