New Creative Audio Implementation in Games
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning
Developer: Mythic Entertainment
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Technology Support: EAX ADVANCED HD 4.0
Release Date: September 2008
Gothic 3 Collector’s
Developer: Jowood Production
Publisher: Dreamcatcher
Release Date: November 2008
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Publisher: Eidos
Release Date: November 2008
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Gifts for Every Gamer Under $100
The economy sucks, but that doesn’t mean your gifts have to. Here are some ideas that won’t break the bank and are sure to give every gamer a competitive edge.
The Hardcore Enthusiast
The $99 PCI Express Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series sound card leverages the power of the Creative X-Fi processor, optimized for PCI Express to deliver accelerated audio for improved game performance. Hardware-powered 3D positional audio and EAX 5.0 effects provide stunning positional audio realism over headphones and speakers, and Dolby Digital encoding enables one-step single-cable connection to home theater systems. Available now at Fry’s and www.creative.com.
The Hobbyist
The Creative Fatal1ty USB Gaming Headset is the first USB headset to feature X-Fi audio technology. The detachable noise-canceling microphone clearly transmits your voice so your team can hear the difference between “get down!” and “go around!” in the midst of heavy battle. Detach the mic and the Fatal1ty USB Gaming Headset can be used to listen to music or movies. The Creative Fatal1ty USB Gaming Headset is available now for $79.99 at www.creative.com.
The Newbie
The recently released Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! simply plugs into an open USB port on any notebook or PC and delivers immersive 3D audio and EAX effects in your games immediately, with no driver installation necessary. As if that weren’t enough, Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! is a 1GB flash memory drive so you can easily transport your custom gaming profiles, plug-ins and add-ons. The Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! is available now at www.creative.com for $49.99.
Additional gaming, music and digital entertainment products from Creative are available at www.creative.com
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Creative at CES
Creative is attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas from January 8-11 where we are debuting a new line of gaming products with exclusive technology. If you’re at CES, be sure to stop by booth #30651 in the South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center and check out all that’s new and exciting from Creative!
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Optimize the performance of your Creative Sound Blaster audio solutions with downloads from www.creative.com/support
Driver Updates and Applications for Creative Audio Products
Yes, these are actually worth reading. Check out the list of recent driver updates to get the most out of your Sound Blaster products.
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Pack
This download supports the following audio devices only:
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty® Champion Series
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
Added Features or Enhancements:
* Supports Dolby® Digital Live and DTS Connect. Requires the Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect software pack.
* Improves microphone volume level.
Resolves the following issues:
* Changing speaker configuration in Console Launcher causes Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium to stop working.
* Unable to install newer version of driver over older version.
* Installer detects identical version of driver in system even though driver package contains a newer version.
* Unable to launch Get PowerDVD® application.
* Low speaker volume in Windows Vista with Service Pack 1.
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy series Driver
This download supports the following audio devices only:
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy including Platinum and Platinum eX series
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 including Platinum, Platinum eX, and Value series
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS including Platinum and Platinum Pro series
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro and Sound Blaster Audigy 4
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA
Added Features:
For systems using Windows Vista
* Dolby® Digital and DTS® decode re-established for sound cards that included decoding in their Windows XP drivers.
* 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.
Fixes:
* Resolves issues of intermittent and random application/system crash when playing games or running applications that use EAX®, DirectSound®, OpenAL and/or ASIO features.
* Resolves issue of system crash when running DTM – Device Path Exerciser test in Windows Vista 64-bit.
* Resolves issue of volume mapping leading to very soft volume level in systems using Windows Vista with Service Pack 1.
* Resolves issue with distortion and noise occurring in systems with 4 GB of RAM or greater.
* Resolves issue with OpenAL playback of multichannel formats.
* Resolves issue of system crash when performing immediate system shutdown after exiting Battlefield 2.
* Optimizations to OpenAL to improve performance in Unreal Tournament 3, DiRT, and other games.
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi series Driver
This download supports the following audio devices only:
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fatal1ty® Professional Series
* 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 or Enhancements:
* Supports Dolby® Digital Live
* Supports DTS® Connect (For Windows Vista only). Requires the latest Creative Console Launcher application.
To get the above mentioned features you will need to purchase the Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect software pack.
For systems using Windows Vista
* 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.
Fixes:
* Resolves issue of audio popping when playing AC-3 Wave files or using Dolby Digital Live via the digital output on Windows Vista.
* Resolves Audio Control Panel issue of incorrect X-Fi CMSS®-3D behavior while using Audio Creation Mode.
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi and X-Fi Titanium Series Linux 32-bit / 64-bit Driver Source Release
This download is a source release driver providing Linux® 32-bit / 64-bit OS support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ and X-Fi Titanium series of audio devices.
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.
This download is intended for the following audio devices only:
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty® Champion Series
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer
* Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic
Current release features:
* ALSA PCM Playback
* ALSA Record
* ALSA Mixer
Known issues:
* External I/O modules are not supported in this driver release.
* Applications from the installation CD of your Sound Blaster audio device will not work with this driver.
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