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Creative Goes After Driver Modder
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TSfariz
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 Mar 30 2008, 08:26 AM, updated 18y ago
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Tan Sri F
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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(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.shtmlRelated forum discussion @ Creative: http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/bo...scending&page=1Digg it: http://digg.com/hardware/Creative_threatens_community_moddernow you know which card to avoid when using Vista  -- Daniel_k modded driver: http://hosted.filefront.com/braziliantech/This post has been edited by fariz: Apr 2 2008, 06:39 AM |
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kianweic
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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.
Cheers
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pedro
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Mar 30 2008, 09:24 AM
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I stopped using creative because of this!
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glo
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Mar 30 2008, 09:47 AM
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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  |
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choyster
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Mar 30 2008, 09:48 AM
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WTF tats a no brainer
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sukhoi37
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Mar 30 2008, 10:13 AM
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woot, luckily i sold my x-fi long long time ago. it's a really stupid move from creative.  |
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jinaun
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Mar 30 2008, 10:23 AM
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where are my stars???
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and now creative are in argument with asus
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kmarc
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Mar 30 2008, 10:37 AM
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The future is here - Cryptocurrencies!
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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.... This post has been edited by kmarc: Mar 30 2008, 10:37 AM |
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defaultname365
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Mar 30 2008, 10:39 AM
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Gee... I thought Creative "hired" a driver modder to help them with their driver issues.
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kianweic
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Mar 30 2008, 10:41 AM
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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?
Thanks
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Radeon
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Mar 30 2008, 10:52 AM
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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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jinaun
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Mar 30 2008, 10:54 AM
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where are my stars???
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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 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... This post has been edited by jinaun: Mar 30 2008, 10:56 AM |
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AMDAthlon
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Mar 30 2008, 11:19 AM
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digita1tech
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Mar 30 2008, 11:46 AM
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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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suicideroach
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Mar 30 2008, 11:58 AM
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lol... i never buy soundcard before  On-board audio FTW! This post has been edited by suicideroach: Mar 30 2008, 11:58 AM |
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Kytz
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Mar 30 2008, 12:07 PM
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suicide move by creative
look at the reaction of the customers in their forums
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Unwritten law
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Mar 30 2008, 12:10 PM
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lets all go against creative!!!
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suicideroach
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Mar 30 2008, 12:38 PM
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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 hoh? I moved by creative?  lol... hahaha.. now i get it This post has been edited by suicideroach: Mar 30 2008, 12:39 PM |
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ir1z
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Mar 30 2008, 12:41 PM
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go for auzentech hahahaha........creative is really making big mistake by doing this now
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