Creative fixes Dolby and DTS decoding for X-Fi

Creative X-Fi soundcards have been around for two years and there has been complains that the company is slow in releasing drivers for its X-Fi series of soundcard. And after the not-so-recent driver fiasco, Creative has finally gotten its act together to release vista-capable drivers that fix the hardware Dolby Digital and DTS decoding for its X-Fi cards.

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Driver 2.18.0004
Supported devices:
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty® Professional

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series
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
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi

Added features:

-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).

-DVD-Audio playback re-established for sound cards that included the application in their Windows XP software suite (For Windows Vista 32-bit only).Requires the latest Creative MediaSource DVD-Audio Player software. Click here to download.

Fixes:

-Resolves issue of system crash when switching to an unsupported sampling rate in Audio Creation Mode while Dolby Digital Live is enabled.

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