If I were you, I wouldn't buy Creative products ever again after this. I know I won't. If you are also annoyed then drop by on their forum and leave a note.
If I were you, I wouldn't buy Creative products ever again after this. I know I won't. If you are also annoyed then drop by on their forum and leave a note.
Lol, I'd boycott them, but I don't buy any expensive sound cards to begin with. It's not a graphics card. Can human ears even hear the difference?
Sometimes yes. Better cards usually have better signal to noise ratio. And most motherboard sound chips do not properly implememt EAX which can generate strange artifacts in games.
Conversely, CPU utilization is not as important since multicore CPU's have become so common. And sometimes, "good enough" really IS good enough.
lol. It's a pretty funny read. I knew creative didn't give a crap when they didn't have working vista drivers, and never bothered fixing it. And, of course, having over priced sound cards pretty much kept me away (my last card was the SB Live!-not supported). I'm sticking with either on-boards or a sound card that is NOT by creative.
Creative kinda have a point tho...
The guy is essentially taking THEIR intellectual property, changing it and profiting from it.
Not sure what the exact laws are, but im pretty sure the usual way of handling this is sending a cease and desist letter from a local friendly litigator.
Creative are obviously looking at releasing a new series of 'improved hardware vista capable sound cards' rather than make drivers for existing cards, forcing people to abandon perfectly good h/ware and UPGRADE.... YAY!!!
Its a business decision, and its their choice. They can choose to build, market and sell their products any way they want.
It's a donation, those who decide to send the creator $$ are not paying for the product itself but for the time and effort spent on the drivers. Thus i find it ridiculous to say that he is profiting from the product, something like profiting from others generosity is much more accurate.
Ill wait until April 1st and see what happens.
maybe we will get a "Creative Aprils fools joke!" thread, and we all will
just sit back and laugh... and laugh... and laugh...
I don't base my decision on what to purchase base on such article. There is very little information to pass judgement on such article. I have no issue with the position of the creative representative base on the limited information on concerned article.
If i have to invest for PC sound card to replace my on-board sound card, The first choice is creative...
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I use an Creative X-Fi Platinum card with front bay drive,and I use Vista 64bit Ultimate,and Ive never had a problem with their drivers.After reading a similar post a few weeks back about onboard sound vs a sound card,I tried it.I run an ASUS P5NT-Deluxe,needless to say,its onboard sound pales in comparison.Someone post a link to show where onboard sound beats Creative X-Fi series cards,if such a motherboard exists?
If you mean "work", yes. for Windows XP 32bit! with the occasional "Squeal of Death" (C) Creative Labs with EAX and ASIO drivers.
I have no problems with XP for either my Live or Audigy 2zs(with the latest drivers creative offered), I was referring to vista...more so the 64 bit one...
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