Download Driver For Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi 2.15.0002

Creative Labs has released a new set of drivers for its Sound Blaster X-Fi family of products. The version number has arrived at 2.15.0002 and is suitable for both the 32bit and 64bit versions of Windows Vista. While these new drivers support SPDIF passthrough on both versions of Vista, there is still no support for decoding Dolby Digital and DTS signals. The announcement from Creative Labs looks like this:

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.

This download supports the following audio devices only:

• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
• Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
• 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:
  • Decoding of Dolby Digital and DTS signals
  • DVD-Audio
  • DirectSound based EAX games
  • 6.1 speaker mode
• Applications from the original Sound Blaster X-Fi CD will not work with this download.