Achieve full Vista Dolby, S/PDIF-In & DTS for X-Fi or Audig

I placed a post on 9/2/07:? [url="http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=Vista&message.id=2398#M2398">Re: AC3 decoding with X-Fi or with Audigy - possible or not?[/url]? I had to reuse the 2 downloaded?files after Vista's recent Service Pack. My X-Fi Elite is still fully functional in Vista Ultimate with the S/PDIF-In.
I found the link last summer:? [url="http://nomoregoatsoup.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/getting-dolby-and-dts-to-work-in-windows-vista-spdif-in-working-too/">Getting Your X-Fi or Audigy?s Dolby and DTS To Work In Windows Vista (SPDIF IN Working Too)[/url]?
Still there it explains:
"... Creative Labs removed Dolby decoding on their mainstream drivers, yet saw fit to leave the feature in Dell drivers!
... Firstly we need to download the Vista x86 X-Fi driver from Dell. Just go on the Dell site and get these?[url="http://ftp.us.dell.com/audio/R44728.EXE">Dell Drivers[/url]. Now extract the R44728.EXE file (again using WinRAR) to a folder but don't install it just cancel after extracting.
All you really want are two files that you can find located in your newly extracted folder: R44728\Drivers\wdm\win2k_xp\i386\
These files are ctac32k.sys and ctdvda2k.sys.? Copy them and place them into your c:\windows\system32\drivers folder, replacing existing versions.
Now reboot and afterwards you?ll have a brand new tab in the Creative Audio Console (CAC -lol) labelled ?Decoder?.
Now you can enable the internal decoder and your SPDIF?IN can now decode DTS. Now you can use more than 2 speakers in Windows Media Player when playing .avi or .mp3 with multichannel soundtracks.
I hope this fix helps somebody as much as it helped me."
Message Edited by LarryMorley on 04-3-2008 2:00 PMMessage Edited by LarryMorley on 04-3-2008 2:0 PM

Thanks for the suggestions Larry, sadly I cannot get this to work for me
I have two Fatalty cards, one was purchased not that long after the release of the X-Fi (it has a remote and a front box), now DTS and Dolby work fine on this card under Windows XP.
My new system has a newer Fatalty Professional series card....for some unknown reason the DTS and Dolby is locked under XP, I had to use a hack from a Russian site to unlock the Dolby and DTS decoder under Windows XP, yet sadly nothing seems to unlock them on Vista x64 with SP.
Thanks for the guide, perhaps it is Vista 32Bit's or older style X-Fi's only?
John

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