Creative Labs heeft een nieuwe driver uitgebracht voor Windows Vista en XP met 2.18.0001 als het versienummer. Deze driver is geschikt voor Sound Blaster Audigy-, Sound Blaster Audigy 2-, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS- en Sound Blaster Audigy 4-geluidskaarten. Nieuw is de ondersteuning voor Dolby Digital, DTS-decoding en dvd-audioweergave onder Windows Vista; onder Windows XP werd deze functionaliteit al ondersteund. Daarnaast heeft men verschillende bugs aangepakt en opgeruimd. De lijst met aanpassingen ziet er als volgt uit:
Added Features:Fixes:
- 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.
Known Issues:
- 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 occuring 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.
- Applications from the original Sound Blaster Audigy CD will not work with this download on Windows Vista.
- Users are advised to use Audio Console included in this download to change speaker configurations.
- Gameport is not supported in Windows Vista and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.
- 6.1 speaker mode is not supported by Windows Vista.