Like we usually do here at, if we don't give you twice as much review as any other site, we give you twice as many. Meet your new sound card: the Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi! Creative developed a whole new processor to power it, the 20K1, sporting 51 million transistors and 10,000 MIPS.ġ0,000 MIPS? What the hell do you do with 10,000 MIPS? If you are Creative you could apply all that power to do sophisticated real time effects with audio streams. At the top of the list, of course, is the X-Fi. Thumbing through Creative's catalog of products, you can see some of the SoundBlasters of yore, like the SoundBlaster 16, still for sale. Back in the virtual world, my reverie gets cut short by an artillery borage.
Oh, Creative has had their competition, but by tooth or by nail, it pretty much owned the entire sound card market since. I knew that for better or worse, Creative was here to stay, and AdLib was their first casualty. Shortly after AdLib put out their card, Creative put out the SoundBlaster and put Adlib out of its misery. Now we have cards with 7.1 channels, 24 bit/96 kHz sampling, 3D positional audio and games that can really use it. This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista® and Windows XP support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi⢠series of audio devices. It had 2 channel FM synthesis and a meager software bundle. Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series driver. I was playing Battlefield 2 online the other night, testing the X-Fi out and thinking back to playing Wing Commander with the first sound card for the PC, the AdLib. Follow the instructions on the screen.Does anyone out there remember playing Wing Commander without a sound card? Yeah, I'm so old-school that even old-school doesn't have a name for us ( Ed: I think they do, they call you "old") and games didn't use sound cards. Download the SBXF_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0013.exe file onto your local hard disk.ģ. * Do not install this driver for Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio.ġ. * Sound Blaster X-Fi audio devices listed above Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005 or Windows XP MCE 2004 Windows Vista 64-bit with Service Pack 1 (SP1), * 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). To find out the Product ID of your audio device and if it supports the following feature in Windows XP, click here. * Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Seriesįor systems using Windows 7 or Windows Vista * Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty® Professional Series This download supports the following audio devices only: This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista® and Windows XP support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fiâ„¢ series of audio devices. Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series driver
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