Creative pump out Vista X-FI Driver

[dangel]

http://us.creative.com/support/downl...pe=0&x=34&y=11


Yup, it's not a beta any more.. Stunned I am. I shall be futher stunned if it isn't a stinking pile of poo

[chuckskull]

Yup, it's not a beta any more.. Stunned I am. I shall be futher stunned if it isn't a stinking pile of poo

Heh I agree, downloading now. Will update with results.

EDIT 1: Woohoo 52kps, nice to see creative splashing out on the bandwidth :|

[Lee H]

Heh I agree, downloading now. Will update with results.

EDIT 1: Woohoo 52kps, nice to see creative splashing out on the bandwidth :|

That is 1 thing that really annoys the hell out of me website of many of the large companies such as Asus, liteon and Creative to name a few run so slow at times.

You'd think they'd all get with the times and distribute the files via torrent or get some bandwidth behind their downloads.

Ain't it great when your on a 8Mb line and your sat staring at your download meter saying 22 mins left and showing a transfer speed of about 20-30k

[chuckskull]

That is 1 thing that really annoys the hell out of me website of many of the large companies such as Asus, liteon and Creative to name a few run so slow at times.

You'd think they'd all get with the times and distribute the files via torrent or get some bandwidth behind their downloads.

Ain't it great when your on a 8Mb line and your sat staring at your download meter saying 22 mins left and showing a transfer speed of about 20-30k

Yeah it really gets me. X-fi is supposed to be the ultimate high end soundcard Wheres my high end support. Same with motherboards, usually too, I had a top end ASUS 939 one. Cost near £200 when it came out, still goes for £100ish now long after 939 is EOL. Yet BIOSes and drivers were often less than 10kps and yes I'm rambling on to hide that fact my download is still only at 85% :|

[shaithis]

Wow, they even have 64bit flavour as well

[Gibbo]

Does it do input monitoring on zero latency?

[chuckskull]

Well it works. The first boot after the install took about 5x longer than usual sitting on a black screen for a while with lots of drive activity.

I think the 64bit and 32bit drivers are identical. My 64bit DL was detected as x86 during the install. No BSOD's, explosions or anything else yet.

My average download speed was 18kps :|

EDIT: After a bit of a bashing with my usual music, the sound quality seems to have gone up from the beta drivers.

EDIT 2: Yay new it wouldn't be long. Foobar just crashed horribly and wont re-open

[aidanjt]

That is 1 thing that really annoys the hell out of me website of many of the large companies such as Asus, liteon and Creative to name a few run so slow at times.

You'd think they'd all get with the times and distribute the files via torrent or get some bandwidth behind their downloads.

Ain't it great when your on a 8Mb line and your sat staring at your download meter saying 22 mins left and showing a transfer speed of about 20-30k

That's because they all have Gigabit connections in Taiwan all running through a T4-like backbone :/
Great for the Taiwanese, sucky for us.

[shaithis]

Funny thing is I just received their March newsletter and there's absolutely no mention at all of these drivers in it that I can see.

Would be nice if they publicised this a bit more, the only reason I get the newsletter was in the hope of being told there were new drivers....

[DecomposingStar]

Does it do input monitoring on zero latency?

Doubt it.

What annoys me is that i still get crappy Crackling noises while playing games (Particularly BF2142 when someone does an Airstrike) and i can hear some form of interference with the graphics, IE whenever i scroll down a page, i can hear quiet beeping.

Really annoying seeing as it's meant to be "the best"

[Gibbo]

Doubt it.

yeah it's Creative soundcard therefore rubbish

[DecomposingStar]

Well you can't expect it to do everything, for recording i use an Edirol UA-25, for playback i use my X-fi. They should cut the recoding area of the X-fi and concentrate on making it crackle-free.

[Gibbo]

Well you can't expect it to do everything.

I would expect a soundcard to be stable for both recording and playback and be able to use ASIO and/or WDM drivers (at least) for low latency monitoring and fully adjustable I/O buffers (low for recording ie low latency - higher for playback). It's a soundcard FFS - that's what soundcards do, isn't it?

I wouldn't touch Creative with yours.

[piranha]

Does'nt support 6.1 speakers? ~Why ever not?

[DecomposingStar]

I would expect a soundcard to be stable for both recording and playback and be able to use ASIO and/or WDM drivers (at least) for low latency monitoring and fully adjustable I/O buffers (low for recording ie low latency - higher for playback). It's a soundcard FFS - that's what soundcards do, isn't it?

I wouldn't touch Creative with yours.

Yeah i know. It SHOULD... But i think Creative want the monopoly, so ASIO doesn't work too well. It would be alright if they just USED that front panel and put a direct monitoring output on it like the UA-25. The UA-25 isn't truly 0 latency, but the direct monitoring is, and thats all you really need.

[Gibbo]

i think Creative want the monopoly.

Fat chance of that though:

m-Audio
Edirol
MOTU
Terratec
Marian
Echo
RME
Tascam
Creamware
Steinberg
Digidesign
Digigram
Aardvark
Lynx
Egosys
EMU - [yes I know it's owned by Creative but a little better than the crappy X-Fi/SB series]
Presonus
Focusrite
TC electronic
Mackie


etc etc etc