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fariz
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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(R) 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." 

Source: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/03/29/046201.shtml

Related forum discussion @ Creative: http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/bo...scending&page=1

Digg it: http://digg.com/hardware/Creative_threatens_community_modder

now you know which card to avoid when using Vista wink.gif

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Daniel_k modded driver: http://hosted.filefront.com/braziliantech/

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I think I am one of the victim mad.gif vmad.gif
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post Mar 30 2008, 08:53 AM
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They should give him a job instead of suing the living daylights out of him.

He did actually do something that Creative was supposed to do in the first place.

Ie. He did the job for Creative for free, I think he should be compensated instead of sued.

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I stopped using creative because of this!
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geez... creative really has shot themselves in the foot there

threating legal action against someone whos actually helping them by releasing PROPER drivers for vista, not those lame crippled official ones??
worst pr mistakes ever.lolz

and they had to post it in a public forum ... couldnt they just pm him or something....

oh well, gonna start using onboard audio again tongue.gif
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WTF tats a no brainer
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woot, luckily i sold my x-fi long long time ago. tongue.gif
it's a really stupid move from creative. doh.gif
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and now creative are in argument with asus

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I guess creative is looking at their "business" point of view and license agreement bla bla bla.... however, that doesn't change the fact that their products don't work properly in Vista..... they are going to lose more customers after this.... doh.gif

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Gee... I thought Creative "hired" a driver modder to help them with their driver issues.
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However, Creative do owned the monopoly for PC-audio in relation to the PC-Gaming. Change is possible but difficult to come by.

Is Creative owned by Singaporean these days? Or the stakes have changed?

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lmao
the thread leads to 50 pages in a few days,
90% of the posters are like saying,
i won't buy creative any more
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QUOTE(Radeon @ Mar 30 2008, 10:52 AM)
lmao
the thread leads to 50 pages in a few days,
90% of the posters are like saying,
i won't buy creative any more
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realli wat..

ppl are frustrated with creative bloated and rarely updated drivers...

i myself also changed from xfi to maya44

lol

but i do think that for products which reached EOL... modders have every rights to mod it...

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doh.gif doh.gif doh.gif

No wonder last time i use Creative Sound Blaster i use somewhere modified version and it works on windows vista doh.gif

I though its creative one..but doh.gif whistling.gif sweat.gif

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X-Fi user here..........stoopid move by creative to sue the modders........they should do like those audigy days when they sold they information about their architecture Audigy,Live.....the kxproject.........
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lol... i never buy soundcard before laugh.gif
On-board audio FTW!

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suicide move by creative
look at the reaction of the customers in their forums
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lets all go against creative!!!
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QUOTE(Kytz @ Mar 30 2008, 12:07 PM)
suicide move by creative
look at the reaction of the customers in their forums
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hoh? I moved by creative? blink.gif

lol... hahaha.. now i get it tongue.gif

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go for auzentech hahahaha........creative is really making big mistake by doing this now
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