The Creative Labs Encore DXR3 is a DVD decoder card released by Creative Labs in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It was designed to improve DVD playback on computers by offloading the decoding process from the CPU to dedicated hardware on the card. This allowed smoother and higher-quality video playback, particularly important for early PCs with less powerful processors.

The Creative Labs Encore DXR3 Windows 2000 driver is the software necessary to ensure that the DVD decoder card functions correctly on Windows 2000 systems. The driver allows the operating system to communicate with the hardware and provides the necessary support for DVD playback software to take advantage of the hardware decoding features of the card.