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Old 03-30-08   #31 (permalink)
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I believe Creative is allowing him to work on the Audigy drivers still, but not X-Fi. I can't believe that he they haven't tried to hire him. What a bunch of morons.
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I believe Creative is allowing him to work on the Audigy drivers still, but not X-Fi. I can't believe that he they haven't tried to hire him. What a bunch of morons.
The world works that way. Only in school do the smartest and best people excel. In the real world, there's a lot of politics involved. Otherwise how would incompetent people continue to pull in pay check?
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This is what Creative is up to:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2279009,00.asp
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I think their biggest issue is cost. 100+ for a decent sound card which you can do without is too much, the same is true for AGEIA physics cards. If you don't need it then most won't pay that much for it. If they made having the amazing boost of a sound card something everyone can pop into their rig on a little more then spare change then sales would take off immediately. Even though i have experienced my first sound card and hope to never have to go back to integrated audio (well i am, because i need to RMA my card, it was defective but good enough to play---somewhat) but i still have a sinking feeling when i look at how much i paid.

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IDK, I can tell the difference with an X-Fi and it's considerable IMO. I'd run it in my rig if I boot XP.
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IDK, I can tell the difference with an X-Fi and it's considerable IMO. I'd run it in my rig if I boot XP.

Yeah. There is just no comparison to hardware accelerated sound. Of course, now with multi core CPUs, the notion of "it saves CPU cycles" no longer applies.

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Yeah. There is just no comparison to hardware accelerated sound. Of course, now with multi core CPUs, the notion of "it saves CPU cycles" no longer applies.
That is completely untrue in certain situations. I gained 15 FPS in Gears of War, and 2142 stopped lagging (not major lag, i would say it was about 25fps, just enough for you to definitely notice--maybe, choppy is the word used to describe such?) in areas of the Titan completely. Overall i saw a large increase in performance because my CPU bottleneck was drastically reduced.

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This just proves that Creative is run by IDIOTS! Frankly they have screwd up royal for years and continue to do so. I've not bought a Creative product since the SB Live 5 was a PITA on XP!
Another Big Company crappy product IMHO!
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This is the funniest thing I've ever seen. Look at post #462

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