This download
- Includes Creative Audio Console, which enables you to use the Sound Blaster X-Fi features and functions.
- Does not address all the reported general "crackling" issues, but it does resolve some specific issues with crackling. Investigations with some motherboard manufacturers are ongoing, and we hope to provide a general solution soon.
- Resolves some issues to improve your overall audio experience.
- Supports OpenAL 1.1
- For Prey
- Resolves the issue of the computer not responding
- For Quake 4 (version 1.04)
- Resolves the issue of the computer not responding when the error message "Quake 4 has encountered an error and needs to close" is displayed
- Resolves the issue of mono speaker out in surround sound environments
- Allows you to hear audio from speakers when you select the OpenAL X-Fi option as the audio driver
- Allows audio channels to stream to correct speakers
- For Battlefield 2
- Allows the Ultra-High Audio setting in a multi-player game
- For Battlefield 2 (version 1.12)
- Allows you to hear audio from speakers when the X-Fi audio driver option is selected
- For Doom 3 (version 1.3)
- Allows you to hear audio from speakers when EAX 4.0 is enabled
- Resolves the "pop" issue during the Chainsaw attack sound effect sequence
- Removes "hiss" from the front left speaker
- Allows panning
- Plays the Ambient sound effects correctly
- For Unreal Tournament 2004 (version 3369)
- Allows you to hear audio from speakers when running in hardware OpenAL mode (the System Driver check-box is cleared)
- For Unreal Tournament 2004 (version 3355)
- Allows reverb in native OpenAL mode
- Allows music to play correctly during gaming in Native OpenAL mode
- For Dungeon Siege (version 1.11)
- Resolves the issue of the computer not responding during benchmarking
- Resolves the issue of the computer not responding when DTS signal is passed through Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer
- Removes X-Fi CMSS-3D Speakers distortion when playing DivX stereo content
- For Audio Creation Mode
- Removes distortion when recording to a 44.1 kHz multi-channel wave file in Audio Creation Mode with 44.1 kHz master sampling rate
- Removes pops and crackles during record monitoring and changing sample rates
- Resolves the issue where no audio is heard from your speakers occasionally when playing 3D MIDI files
- Resolves the missing instrument issue when playing a MIDI file in all modes
- Resolves the "recording process aborted" issue during a 44 kHz multi-channel recording
- Resolves the issue of the computer not responding when recording with Creative MediaSource Player/Organizer
- Resolves SoundFont issues where notes distort and change pitch during playback and recording
- Allows your computer to quit Suspend mode when enabling "Automatically Enable Headphone Settings" even when headphones are not connected to your computer
- Resolves the issue where no audio is heard when testing the X-Fi CMSS-3D Headphone in the Game Mode console
- Resolves the noise issue when your computer quits Standby mode
- Allows effects to be loaded in EAX4.0 mode of your test program (EAX50ShowDSound)
- Resolves the issue of the computer not responding when loading a 2D Sound in your test program (DSound50_OpenAL 1.1)
- Resolves the issue where there is no upmix when switching effects
- Resolves the floating point offset issue in OpenAL
- Resolves the issue of the computer not responding while using synchronous start through native OpenAL
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition or Windows XP Service Pack 2
- Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic, Platinum or Fatal1ty audio device
- Creative MediaSource DVD-Audio Player is unavailable for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
