Driver Update: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium 2.17.0007

Creative Labs has released a new driver for Windows 7, Vista and XP with version number 2.17.0007. This driver is suitable for Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium, X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty and X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio sound cards. In the new driver, among other things, the ability to filter out the ambient noise and distort voices with VoiceFX. The announcement along with the list of changes looks like this:

This download is a driver providing Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista® and Windows XP support for Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium series of audio devices. For more details, read the rest of this web release note.

This download supports the following audio devices only:

• Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty® Champion Series
• Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
• Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio
• Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium

Added Features or Enhancements:

• Adds Silencer, a noise-cancelling technology for use with Creative Fatal1ty Professional Series Gaming Headset MK II.
• Adds VoiceFX, a voice morphing feature.
• Implements new workaround to improve compatibility issues with NVIDIA® graphics cards running in SLI™ configuration on NVIDIA-based motherboards.

Resolves the following issues:

• Changing effects in Audio Creation Mode results in the system taking a long time to shut down.
• When system enters hibernation while DTS® Connect or Dolby® Digital Live is enabled, sound does not output to the external decoder after system wakes up.

Known Issues:

• Audio stutters during the opening video for certain game titles while Dolby Digital Live is enabled. This issue occurs on certain hardware and OS configurations only. More details and a workaround are available here.