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Old 03-29-08   #21 (permalink)
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Well I don't really get it........all of my X-Fis have run fine on Vista since I started VIsta x64 in August last year. I experienced the static sound with 4Gb installed once, but I just rebooted and it was gone.....
However this is going to give them some bad publicity. They really have a point if the guy is requesting donations on their forums.
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Creative doesn't do anything, mainly because they don't care, and people will still buy their cards anyway because "xfi is the best for gaming"

Personally when I get a chance, I have my eye on a Bgears B-Enspirer, not an Xfi card, because Xfi is a joke and so is creative, and Bgears even has linux drivers...

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wow.

Creativelabs really are turning into asshats.

I used that guys drivers till Creativelabs decided to finally release some stable drivers for Vista 64bit in the beginning/mid march.

They probably learned alot from him, and yet put him down?. yeah, keep dragging your company name through the dirt...

i guess creativelabs are on a asshat streak:

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For anyone that needs the driver.

I won't be buying any products from creative in the future after that.

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LOL I got a kick out of how many people registered just so they could post in that thread. There are pages of single post poeple that did jsut that to tell creative they are a bunch of .....................
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Well let's start a tracker.............Creative can't stop a P2P distribution of the drivers.

Wow I've been reading some of the posts there......some of these people are just ignorant
A LOT of people are talking about this.....and should be
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article...8/03/29/046201
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1032290128
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I suggest everyone writes all of the other tech websites, vr-zone, anandtech, tomshardware, tgdaily,cnet, xbitlabs and send them the link. Maybe itll get enough attention to help creative pull their heads out. . .

I am going to start sending it now.
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hmm. i use youp pax drivers. lol.

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