Nehemoth
Mar 29 2008, 12:38
QUOTE
FreedomFighter writes
"Since the release of Windows Vista, Creative has promised their Sound Cards as being 'Vista Ready'. Unfortunately, as many unlucky customers did discover, this is not true. What the users actually found were buggy, feature crippled drivers. Creative insisted that features such as Decoding of Dolby® Digital and DTS™ signals and DVD-Audio which worked fine in WinXP, would not work on windows Vista. With Creative releasing less than one new driver a year, things seemed bleak. Fortunately, a talented user, Daniel_K, was recently able to 'fix' many of the drivers, enabling the incompatible features and also fixing many bugs. Just today Creative has decided to put a stop to this. They removed all links to his modified drivers, and banned several users who were posting links to the now banned drivers." http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/03/29/046201.shtml
Singh400
Mar 29 2008, 13:08
Thats fucking bullshit. Creative are just fucking embrassed that what they couldn't do in 5 years that this kid did in a couple of months.
Props to the kid. I'll see if I can find the links for the drivers.
Ircsum
Mar 29 2008, 13:56
That story doesn't do a lot of good for Creative's image - unless they really want to be seen as total a-holes.
Ircsum.
How about they hire him and fire their coding team. Seems about right to me.
I'm sure the features were disabled for reasons though. Without looking into it at all, most of the time it's due to licensing. But who knows.
Xenokira
Mar 29 2008, 15:22
QUOTE(Scott @ Mar 29 2008, 09:06)
How about they hire him and fire their coding team. Seems about right to me.
I was thinking the exact same as I read through the thread.
Chugworth
Mar 29 2008, 16:57
I added my voice to their thread:
QUOTE(Chugworth)
Well I have been a longtime user of Creative sound cards, all the way back to the original Sound Blaster. But I quit months ago after getting sick and tired with the incompetency of Creative's driver team.
However, THIS pretty much guarantees that I will never buy another Creative product ever again.
Have a great day.
Danthe
Mar 29 2008, 23:53
I may say I regret buying an X-Fi card.
Why didn't I just buy another ESI card.....
madTaMsKi
Mar 30 2008, 00:33
I think the way they've treated this guy is bang out of order!
Fucking idiots.
XP_2600
Mar 30 2008, 12:45
Well i have a bad experience with them since there lovely CD Roms, i am not going to buy any Creative product neither personally nor for work, let them enjoy there nice team.
XP_2600
Mar 31 2008, 17:46
Illrigger
Mar 31 2008, 20:05
The reason that creative wouldn't want these distributed? Because they haven't really made a new chip since the original EMU10k1 from the first SBLIVE (they didn't actually make that one, either - it was acquired when they purchased EMU Systems), and these drivers prove it by enabling "X-Fi only" features in older cards. They've made millions of dollars by over clocking the 10k1 and adding in various external features to it when in fact the core DSP is almost unmodified; they create new features, but disable them in older cards through detection code in the drivers, but essentially are re-selling the same piece of hardware to people over and over again.
Who would buy an X-Fi when they can pull their 5-year-old Audigy 2 and use hacked drivers to enable the X-Fi only features? Creative's business model would be shattered!
Illrigger: To tell you the truth, I never even though of it like that. It makes total sense and explains a lot of things. Sounds like Creative did not want the word to get out about this to the general consumer...
BlueScreenOfDeath
Apr 1 2008, 16:36
damn shame...i hate creative now.
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