Creative Sound Blaster Z-Series Driver Download v13.1.00.28
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nhlkoho
Thank you. It took me hours to download this from Creative's servers before I gave up and found a chinese mirror somewhere.
sykozis
Does this driver actually fix something?
nhlkoho
I was having an issue with my new headset when everytime i plugged the mic cable in the computer would bluescreen and the error log pointed to this driver. This update fixed it for me.
sykozis
I've only had my SB-Z since Wednesday night and have only used it to listen to music. My Recon3D had no issues at all other than the control panel crashing regularly, but that never affected the rest of the system.
dsbig
soundblaster needs to update there servers.
the servers was slow even in 2000 on dialup.
luckily the files size back then was small.
guru3d servers was fast with dialup.
3x3cUt0r
I used many Creative Labs' sound cards in the past, but i find their driver support TERRIBLE, i would never buy anything from until they show better driver support.
tsunami231
i stoped using there stuff when there sb live was thing, there support was horrid, i was using 2~3 year old drivers there first few initial drivers. and i pretty sure the support now is still horrid
GhostXL
Sound drivers are nothing like video drivers, where they constantly need updated. Everything just works.
Once in a while a bug may need to be fixed etc.
My Soundblaster Z has been rock solid with software/hardware and I never had a better sounding PC.
tsunami231
Count your self as one of the lucky one then cause there support is terrible
nick0323
No problems here with my Recon3D Control Panel, I've had about 5-6 updates for that sound card in the last year or so. Quite impressed with the frequency of the updates, the last one being just over a week ago.
nick0323
You know I was about to complain that whilst my SB Recon 3D has had 5-6 updates in the last year, my EVO headset has had none! Spoke too soon, there's an update in Windows Update right now.
sykozis
The last update for the Recon3D was Jan 2014....unless Creative's website is wrong.
TheDeeGee
Using the Drivers from the CD on my ZxR, no issues at all.
nick0323
Correct, the updates I've had have been via Windows Update under Optional, you may need to change your settings to receive the updates if you haven't seen any...
sykozis
None have ever shown up for my Recon3D on WU. I don't install drivers from Windows Update anyway.
IcE
You got lucky then is all. Many people including myself had problems with the card randomly turning to screech mode, among other things.
stevevnicks
same here never had any issues with my blaster Z, to many people read ahh creative have crap support which I cant say they are not because I have never had any need to get support for my blaster z. user caused Issues I guess?
clearly its just a few people have had problems/issues because if creative were as bad as these people made them out to be they would of been bankrupt years ago.
darkvader75
Soundblaster Z driver support
Their drivers have not been fine over the last few years. Their audio glitches and has hiss's and ticks in it terribly if you are running a Crossfire or SLI setup. The moment you switch to single videocard then it's mostly fine. Those of us with more serious rigs truly can not run one of these cards as we can't take the endless ticking popping and hissing noises that come out of it. While driver support truly is different for audio as was suggested earlier in this forum, not corrected major flaws in that driver and leaving a large part of your user base un-attended for many years tends to cause you to loose those buyers. I own a SB1500 series and it sits in a drawer since I was dumb enough to give them a shot just 1 more time. Don't waist your money. Asus has you covered.
Keitosha
The only problem I got with 1 SBZ (my 1st one since launch, got 3 in total) is that Windows installs it twice regardless of which driverset I install. It changes randomly from Sound Blaster Z to 2 - Sound Blaster Z and back. This results in always re-selecting the card in controlpanel.
Guess this is a hardware issue since I've tried this card in 3 different PC's already and the other SBZ cards aren't having that problem. Re-seating and changing slots doesn't work.
Creative doesn't acknowledge this problem, so RMA not possible. :banana:
Anarion
There are some minor annoyances with ASIO and OpenAL doesn't work when you select 88.2 kHz for example but other than that things have been rather smooth.
