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vuxdu · 04-01-08

Lol I always hated creative!

highwhey · 04-01-08

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Originally Posted by _^MeRcY

cant believe how huge this thread became in one day

yeah me too, if it contained free passes to bangbros i'd understand

thenailedone · 04-01-08

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Originally Posted by arekieh

Lol, guys look at this,
Look at teh first reply

http://forums.creative.com/creativel...read.id=118223

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Shut up!

LOL! Short, sweet and to the point... all replies should strive to be that way!

Antho · 04-01-08

A Snippet from INQ's analysis of the whole affair, quite a good read actually.

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Fast forward to today: the Sound Blaster X-Fi family, out now for some two years, still has unmatched processing power. The missing effects like the Dolby stuff, plus better amplifiers and other componentry, were then added by third party vendors like Auzentech from Korea. MSI, on their side, includes X-Fi Extreme on their Nforce 790i Ultra mobo competitor to the Asus Striker II Extreme shown here today.

But then, the Vista migration was un utter nightmare for Creative. For a variety of reasons ranging from Vista's screwed-up direct audio layer to licensing issuse for pieces of code to run on Vista, Creative's Vista drivers became a hodge-podge of half-working stuff, where the critical part - full audio acceleration and offload using the X-Fi processor instead of CPU, wasn't addressed well.

We all know the Daniel_K story and his handmade improved Vista drivers for both X-Fi and Audigy, as well as Creative's recent angry jump to remove those drivers - even though, well, these gave Creative users a solution that Creative didn't. And yes, Creative had a legal avenue to try to stop him but, well above that, it has an obligation to support its customers properly.

OK, what now? Forget about technical details for the moment. Creative is now in a horrible PR nightmare, and enthusiast customer market losses are inevitable. Also, Asus, now the biggest competitor with its sexy but DSP-less Xonars, is nibbling away at Creative's market share, and it does all that Dolby and DTS surround sound.

**ENTERPRISE** · 04-01-08

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Originally Posted by arekieh

LOL

I WIN

http://www.overclock.net/sound-cards...ou-fail-2.html

Just lol.

*NuclearCrap* · 04-01-08

I like how I can't even sign in to Creative's forums anymore. Good, now that I just have to take my messages elsewhere making matters much worse for those tards. If they choose to oppress people for telling the truth, they'll just get a harder punch in return.

EDIT: Nevermind, I can log in now, just some server problems probably. Just shows how bad Creative technically is. Gonna send an email to Washington Post.

thenailedone · 04-01-08

Well, if the old saying "any publicity is good publicity" still holds true the top brass at Creative are already contemplating how they are going to spend their bonusses...

TheEddie · 04-01-08

Quoted from a post on Creative's forum.

"Obviously a business decision was made to force creative customers to purchase new cards for vista due to Creative's financial situation. It was a desperate move that was destined to fail. "

Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrn Creative, burrrrrn.

<< This guy is glad he sold his X-Fi when the gettin was good.

*prosser13* · 04-01-08

Guys - can we stop destroying the cards?

Creative have your money and one less person to support.

Return the card to your retailer and try and get a refund - that way Creative won't have earnt anything off you

Benny99 · 04-01-08

I cant Believe this thread is still going on ! 100 pages +

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