Download Driver For Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium 2.17.0008

Creative Labs released a new driver for Windows 7, Vista and XP last month with version number 2.17.0008. This driver is suitable for Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium, X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty and X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio sound cards. The accompanying announcement and the list of changes look like this:

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Driver 2.17.0008

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 contains the driver and following application(s):

• Creative Audio Control Panel

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:

• Improves the loading time of Audio Control Panel.
• Enables selection of other microphones under the Microphone Effects tab of Audio Control Panel.

Fixes:
Resolves the following issues:

• Microphone volume level is not saved in each Creative Console Launcher mode.
• No sound is passed through S/PDIF output when playing back DVD movies using Windows Media® Player 12.
• Buttons on the X-Fi I/O drive don’t work in Windows XP.
• Occasional unresponsiveness in Audio Control Panel when configuring the Flexijak.
• Speaker Configuration in Audio Control Panel is not synchronized when Headphones option is selected in Game Mode or Audio Creation Mode.
• System becomes unresponsive when shutting down Windows while DTS® Connect is enabled.

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.

Requirements:

• Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 7 32-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit with Service Pack 1 (SP1), Windows Vista 32-bit with SP1, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) 2005 or Windows XP MCE 2004
• Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium series audio devices listed above