For those who have Creative X-Fi cards Hardware Requirements Discuss For those who have Creative X-Fi cards in the Installing and Upgrading Vista forums; Creative has released a new driver that came out yesterday (though the driver's date shows 5/10): Creative Driver Download page This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows ...

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Creative has released a new driver that came out yesterday (though the driver's date shows 5/10):

Creative Driver Download page

This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows Vista 64-bit and Windows Vista 32-bit support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi series of audio devices. For more details, read the rest of this web release note.

This download supports the following audio devices only:

* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty®
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro

Current release features:

* X-Fi Crystalizer
* X-Fi CMSS®-3D
* MIDI Playback
* EAX® Effects
* PCM stereo output through Optical Out
* Line-in connectivity
* SPDIF passthrough is supported on both Vista 32-bit and Vista 64-bit
* Recording capabilities.

Known issues:

* This driver does not support the following:
o Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS signals
o DVD-Audio
o DirectSound®-based EAX games
o 6.1 speaker mode
* Applications from the original Sound Blaster X-Fi CD will not work with this download.

Requirements:

* Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows Vista 32-bit
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above.

Notes:

* Do not install this driver for Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio.
* To install the driver, do the following:
1. Download the SBXF_PCDVT_LB_2_15_0002.exe file into your local hard disk.
2. Double-click the downloaded file.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen.