Website review: DailyTech - Creative Says Custom D...
Don-Keehotay discovered this in Computer Hardware
•17 reviews since Mar 31, 2008
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Don-Keehotay discovered 4 months ago- "The origin of this driver controversy stems from the transition from Windows Vista from XP. When Creative rewrote the drivers for its Sound Blaster Audigy series, it left off a number of features. Among these features were DVD-Audio support, DD/DTS decoding, an equalizer, CMSS2/CMSS Stereo Surround support, and THX Options. Many alleged that Creative purposefully crippled its older Sound Blaster cards to push sales of its flagship X-Fi cards. Others point out that all the Vista drivers for Creative cards, including the X-Fi drivers, are filled with glitches and frequently crash and stop working, indicating that the problem is more a general lack of success in driver writing. Some users have even reported that they've experienced crashes and have been unable to restore their soundcards to working order, even after numerous driver reinstalls. Amid all these problems, Daniel_K stepped into action and released a set of custom drivers for the Sound Blaster Audigy series. These drivers re-enabled the crippled functionality from XP, improved stability, and improved general performance. Daniel_K, having spent many hours programming the drivers, solicited contributions from supporters as is-oft done in the custom driver community. An enraged Creative is now battling to squelch the spread of the drivers online, unhappy that the drivers enable features that it intended not to allow. However, it is now facing an uprising from its former supporters, as indicated in the forum thread in which Daniel_K was put on notice. The forum thread features over 1,600 messages, nearly all angry blasts against what is perceived as Creative's draconian assault on the modder community."
- fafnir665 rated 4 months ago
- Do not want
- arleas rated 4 months ago
- Most people find onboard sound cards to be adequate for their needs... Instead of blaming the work of a freelance driver programmer, they should be thanking him for making their products look less shitty than before...
I'd like to see how this would hold up in court though. Unless he actually stole code from the old drivers, I don't think they have a case...
Basically, this is the last flailing efforts of a dying company... And unfortunately, like in quicksand, the more they flail about, the faster they sink. - Most people find onboard sound cards to be adequate for their needs... Instead of blaming the work of a freelance driver programmer, they should be thanking him for making their products look less shitty than before...
- floweringmind rated 4 months ago
- Creative Labs is the scum of sound cards.
- kodos rated 4 months ago
- this comes right after i just bought some creative speakers
- b3ng3anc3 rated 4 months ago
- Creative has to realize who their customers are. PC enthusiasts screw around with stuff.. and this is a fix...
- dudeonline rated 4 months ago
- fuck...I have an X-Fi card in my computer at the moment
