Creative Finally Releases Fixed Vista Drivers For X-Fi
Creative’s finally put that whole driver fiasco behind them and released Vista-capable drivers for their X-FI cards. What took them so long? Who knows, but they’ve added DVD Audio playback, which is nice, I guess. Grab yours now if you haven’t broken your X-Fi in half already. [Creative via X-Fi]
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I’ve had my SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic disabled in my Dell 9150 for well over a year since Creative’s Vista support has been terrible ever since Vista came out more than 2 years ago. I just downloaded and tried the 2.18.0008 driver released in December 2008. Now that I’ve tried it what can I say? Well can I ask for my time back? After I installed these drivers I have no sound at all (and yes, I’ve reconnected my speakers into the X-Fi connections). Thanks Creative for getting my hopes up. It looks like I can put that pointless piece of hardware named X-Fi XtremeMusic back on the disabled device list. At least my “on-board” HD audio drivers work just fine. I don’t get why Creative are the only ones finding this so hard. All I ask (since I wrote off my X-Fi purchase a long time ago) is the Creative either release a truly FIXED driver, or don’t bother at all. There’s no point in re-disappointing customers that probably already got over that disappointment once.