Creative Finally Releases Vista Functional X-Fi So

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   We were beginning to wonder if Creative would ever update its X-Fi
soundcard drives to work properly in Vista, and after the whole Daniel_K fiasco, we were about ready to throw in the towel. For those that stuck it out, Creative has finally released a
new driver package that fixes the hardware Dolby Digital and DTS
decoding in its X-Fi cards running under Vista. The company also added
DVD Audio playback, a feature that previously went by the wayside when
upgrading from XP to Vista.
The new driver also addresses a niggling bug that causes system
crashes when switching to an unsupported sampling rate in the Audio
Creation Mode while Dolby Digital Live is enabled.
All X-Fi soundcards except the Xtreme Audio version are supported with the driver update. 

Source: MaximumPC

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widdlecat Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 840	Quote Reply Topic: Creative Finally Releases Vista Functional X-Fi So Posted: 01 Aug 2008 at 3:31am
	We were beginning to wonder if Creative would ever update its X-Fi soundcard drives to work properly in Vista, and after the whole Daniel_K fiasco, we were about ready to throw in the towel. For those that stuck it out, Creative has finally released a new driver package that fixes the hardware Dolby Digital and DTS decoding in its X-Fi cards running under Vista. The company also added DVD Audio playback, a feature that previously went by the wayside when upgrading from XP to Vista. The new driver also addresses a niggling bug that causes system crashes when switching to an unsupported sampling rate in the Audio Creation Mode while Dolby Digital Live is enabled. All X-Fi soundcards except the Xtreme Audio version are supported with the driver update. Source: MaximumPC


MarkNY Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 13 Dec 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 459	Quote Reply Posted: 01 Aug 2008 at 9:17am
	wow! about time! can't wait to install this. thanks for the update!
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nomec Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 26 Aug 2007 Online Status: Offline Posts: 530	Quote Reply Posted: 01 Aug 2008 at 9:31am
	installed them but i never had problems with any of the drivers in the first place in vista.. guess i didnt try to use the features that were broken
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SunfighterLC Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List DS Veteran Joined: 18 Feb 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1527	Quote Reply Posted: 01 Aug 2008 at 11:03am
	Do you get an echo when you install two sound cards? This has been a Sunfighter quality thought of the day.
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Rolet Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 02 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 287	Quote Reply Posted: 03 Aug 2008 at 6:05pm
	I installed them and did not get the decode tab for Dolby Digital/DTS....lame
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gamerk2 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 28 May 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 200	Quote Reply Posted: 04 Aug 2008 at 2:36pm
	To bad it doesn't fix the scratchy sound on nforce motherboards...