Download Driver For Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2.18.0001

Creative Labs has released a new driver for Windows Vista and XP with 2.18.0001 as the version number. This driver works with Sound Blaster Audigy, Sound Blaster Audigy 2, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, and Sound Blaster Audigy 4 sound cards. New is the support for Dolby Digital, DTS decoding and DVD audio playback under Windows Vista; this functionality was already supported under Windows XP. In addition, several bugs have been addressed and cleaned up. The list of adjustments looks like this:

Added Features:

• 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.

Known issues:

• 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.