Creative ALchemy (X-Fi Edition) 1.00.30

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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

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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.

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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.

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Unimatrix Xero

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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..

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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

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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

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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. ;)

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spaceelf

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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...

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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.

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Jason S. Global Moderator

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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.

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