1. Creative Sound Blaster Drivers Download

Take note of the following:. This download currently supports Windows 7 only. Support for Windows Vista and Windows XP will be available at a later date. This download supports the following audio devices only:. Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty® Professional Series.

Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series. Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic. Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer. Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum. Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty.

Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro. Sound Blaster X-Fi Fixes: Resolves the following issues:. System taking more than two minutes to shut down.

PowerDVD® DX 8.3 (Dell® version) not working properly. Passthrough of Dolby®/DTS® audio to an external decoder not working with Windows Media Player 12. Requirements:. Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit or Windows 7 32-bit. Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above Notes:. Do not install this driver for Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio.

To install this driver. Download the SBXFPCDRVLB2180015.exe file onto your local hard disk. Double-click the downloaded file.

Follow the instructions on the screen. Danielk’s SB X-Fi Series Support Pack 2.0 (Dated ). This software/driver pack is unofficial, not supported by Creative Labs and is provided as is, without any warranties.

Creative Sound Blaster Drivers Download

This download supports the following audio devices only:. Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty® Professional Series. Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series. Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic. Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer. Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum. Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty.

Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro. Sound Blaster X-Fi Added Features or Enhancements: For systems using Windows 7 or Windows Vista.

What U Hear feature is enabled. To find out the Product ID of your audio device and if it supports the following feature in Windows XP, click. Dolby® Digital and DTS® decode re-established for sound cards that included decoding in their Windows XP drivers (Not applicable for products that included a 3rd party software DVD player license in the package). Requirements:. Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit with Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista 32-bit with SP1, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005 or Windows XP MCE 2004. Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above Notes:.

Do not install this driver for Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio. To install this driver.

Download the SBXFPCDRVLB2180013.exe file onto your local hard disk. Double-click the downloaded file. Follow the instructions on the screen. Take note of the following:. THIS IS AN UNSUPPORTED DRIVER.

There is no technical support for this driver. We recommend that only experienced users install this driver. Do not install this driver on a system used to perform critical tasks.

Arena Surround sounds like it should be the name of a Swedish chubby-culture porn star, but actually it's the name of Creative's new £90 gaming headset. It's Creative's first headset to carry the Sound Blaster brand, and features built-in X-Fi audio crystalisation and CMSS 3D soundstage expansion. The headset is designed to deliver positional surround sound so that you can more closely monitor the gaming world around you.

The Arena Surround also comes packing Creative's 'Silencer' tech which helps the built-in microphone isolate your voice from other sounds in the room, making it easier for your team mates to understand what it is you're blathering about. And to top-off the feature list, you can also use 'VoiceFX' to change your voice into that of an Alien, an Orc or 16 other ridiculous fictional creatures. Performance So, does it all work? Well the answer is yes – as a gaming headset the Arena Surround is very good. The positional surround sound does a half-decent job of discerning between noises in front and behind you, although it's certainly no match for a decent 5.1-speaker system in this regard.

The microphone, too, works well and the 'Silencer' software does a good job of filtering out background noise. However, there are, of course, some inherent problems with a headset like this. As it's a USB headset, it relies entirely on the built-in soundcard which is about the size of a flash dongle. This eliminates the possibility of using it with your existing (read: better) soundcard. And if you were thinking about using it for listening to music, don't even bother. Music sounds murky, with all the audio pushed into the mushy midrange. This kind of audio processing obviously works well with gaming, but for anything else it makes a bit of a hash of things.

Value for money However, let's not dwell too much on that, as it is after all, a gaming headset. As such, it's a pretty handy product.

However, for £90, we struggle to see the benefits of plumping for this comfortable-yet-conspicuously ugly headset when you can get other Creative models for less. If you've got the cash, and surround sound simulation is your bag, this is a decent option. However, for everyone else, we'd recommend last year's as a better-value alternative.