Posted 07/31/08 at 02:05:11 PM by Paul Lilly

We were beginning to wonder if Creative would ever update its X-Fi soundcard drives to work properly in Vista, and after the whole Daniel_K fiasco, we were about ready to throw in the towel. For those that stuck it out, Creative has finally released a new driver package that fixes the hardware Dolby Digital and DTS decoding in its X-Fi cards running under Vista. The company also added DVD Audio playback, a feature that previously went by the wayside when upgrading from XP to Vista.

The new driver also addresses a niggling bug that causes system crashes when switching to an unsupported sampling rate in the Audio Creation Mode while Dolby Digital Live is enabled.

All X-Fi soundcards except the Xtreme Audio version are supported with the driver update.

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Posted 03/31/08 at 01:22:04 PM by The Maximum PC Staff

Our consumer advocate investigates Camera Addict, Creative ALchemy, and EZVideotools

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Posted 03/04/08 at 12:47:30 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

Who’d have thunk it? Long considered a dead zone, soundcards are making a resurgence. Driven by an outcry for audio that doesn’t sound like a box of snap, crackle, pop every time you access your USB ports, manufacturers are releasing new soundcards that surpass the free audio that comes with your motherboard. This month, we test an Auzentech card that uses a Creative Labs chip and Asus’s new entry into PC audio.

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Posted 12/05/07 at 08:00:48 PM by David Murphy

Where are my front-panel connectors? Where is my audio? What the heck is going on, Creative?

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Posted 06/12/07 at 07:18:35 PM by Maximum PC Staff

Welcome to the super-special Tuesday edition of the No BS podcast. Today we talk about Safari, the discrete soundcard, and a whole lot more!

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Posted 05/09/07 at 07:20:35 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

If you read our original review of the X-Fi way back in November 2005, you already know about this card. Back then, Creative packaged this exact same card with a drive bay and remote and charged an impossible to justify $280 for the X-Fi Fatal1ty FPS soundcard.

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Posted 06/30/06 at 12:50:05 PM by Gordon Mah Ung

We were so in love with the old Diamond Monster Sound that it wasn’t until our recent move that we finally sent the unsupported, driverless card to hardware Valhalla.

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Posted 09/25/05 at 05:51:37 PM by Maximum PC

There’s a Mafia-style war raging around your PC. The MPEG-2 decoder card? Found face down in a Dumpster. The LAN card? Gunned down as he was leaving his social club. And no one’s seen the poor modem since he was “Hoffa’ed” in the 1990s.

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